All resources: Uganda

Women's Entrepreneurship Development in Uganda: Insights and Recommendations

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility’s Youth-to-Youth Fund in East Africa: Public-Private Partnership

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) enables African youth to turn their ideas into business opportunities aimed at increasing their income and the creation of decent work for themselves and others. It is a public-private partnership (PPP)...

School-to-work transition

Does investing in education pay off for African youth?

In sub-Saharan Africa, a stable, well-paid job is often an impossible dream, even for educated young people, according to an ILO report.

Presentation

Stimulating Microenterprise Growth: Results from a Loans, Grants and Training Experiment in Uganda - Presentation

Doha Evidence Symposium: Increasing Youth Productivity in the Middle East and North Africa, 6-8 March 2014

Presentation

Empowering Adolescent Girls: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda - Presentation

Doha Evidence Symposium: Increasing Youth Productivity in the Middle East and North Africa, 6-8 March 2014

Stimulating Microenterprise Growth: Results from a Loans, Grants and Training Experiment in Uganda

Doha Evidence Symposium: Increasing Youth Productivity in the Middle East and North Africa, 6-8 March 2014

Empowering Adolescent Girls: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda

Doha Evidence Symposium: Increasing Youth Productivity in the Middle East and North Africa, 6-8 March 2014

Stimulating microenterprise growth: Results from a Loans, Grants and Training Experiment, Uganda

Doha Evidence Symposium: Increasing Youth Productivity in the Middle East and North Africa, 6-8 March 2014

Empowering Adolescent Girls: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

Doha Evidence Symposium: Increasing Youth Productivity in the Middle East and North Africa, 6-8 March 2014

Entrepreneurship

The cost of not knowing how to cost

How the ILO contributes to women’s empowerment, job creation and economic growth in Uganda through business management skills.

Work4Youth Publications

Labour market transitions of young women and men in sub-Saharan Africa

This report presents the results of the School-to-work transition surveys (SWTS) implemented in eight sub-Saharan African countries – Benin, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zambia – in 2012 or 2013....

First W4Y Regional Meeting

Decent jobs for youth should be at the top of African Development agenda, says ILO

Informality and vulnerable employment remain the reality for the vast majority of young workers in the region, says a new ILO report prepared for the Work4Youth Regional Conference that is taking place this week in Addis Ababa.

South-South and Triangular Cooperation

GSSD 2013 - Sustainable Development and Decent Work Solution Forum: Presentation 6. Youssef Alaoui Solaimani, Morocco, Managing your...

Managing your Agricultural Cooperative -My.COOP-is a training package published in 2011. It covers managerial challenges faced by many agricultural cooperatives. face. It is based on the idea that strong cooperatives are necessary for a more...

South-South and Triangular Cooperation

GSSD 2013 - Sustainable Development and Decent Work Solution Forum: Presentation 4. Cobitech, Kenya, Promoting green entrepreneurship among...

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) is a partnership between the Africa Commission, the Youth Employment Network (YEN) and the ILO. Implemented over the period 2010-2014 in Kenya, Uganda, and United Republic of Tanzania, the partnership is...

Work for Youth (W4Y) (Midterm Evaluation Summary)

Project GLO/11/01/MCF Master Card Project

Women's entrepreneurship development and economic empowerment - Irish Aid Partnership Programme 2011/2013 (WED-EE) (Midterm Evaluation...

Project RAF/12/50/IRL - Evaluation consultant: Carlos Rodriguez-Ariza

Green entrepreneurs showcase their businesses at a regional knowledge sharing workshop in Kenya

The ILO Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) programme, which aims to create job opportunities for young people in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, organized a three-day regional knowledge sharing workshop for key project partners, stakeholders and...

Promoting green entrepreneurship among young women and men in Kenya

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) is a partnership between the Africa Commission, the Youth Employment Network and the ILO. Through training and business plan competition it promotes green entrepreneurship among young women and men in Kenya,...

Lessons learned from a Randomized Controlled Trial using SIYB in Uganda

The Youth Employment Network Brief Issue 3: Getting it right from the baseline, outlines the lessons learned from an evaluation conducted in Uganda on how to stimulate growth among youth entrepreneurs using SIYB.

Impact Insurance Working Paper #24: Microcare Insurance Uganda - Case Study

Microcare originated out of a desire to find more effective ways to provide low-income communities with access to better quality healthcare. Pre-paid healthcare offered an opportunity to accumulate and channel resources so that poor people would get...