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Empower Youth through Data and Community Development

Target Impact

To build a financially and digitally inclusive business ecosystem for 250,000 young people to access dignified and fulfilling work in Uganda by 2028.

 

Target: 400,000 young people

 

Geographical location: Central region

 

Objectives:

  1. Empower local grassroots community–based organizations to deliver quality relevant and market demand skills.
  2. Strengthen community financial structures (SACCOs & VSLAs) and digitize their credit capability to enable them to access finance from wider investment ecosystem.
  3. Increase access and utilization of skills by young people to start, grow and scale-up enterprises.

Status: Active

Country

Uganda

Period

2023-2028

Industries

Access to Finance

Digital Economy

Education & Skills

Impact to Date

200

Local grassroots community – based organizations’ capacity strengthened to skill 400,000 with market relevant skills.

3000

Community financial structures strengthened and digitized.

250,000

Local young people enabled to access dignified and fulling work.

Partnership Focus

Strengthen the capacity of formal and informal institutions (grassroots community-based) to skill young people

Strengthen and digitalize community financial structures (SACCOs & VSLAs)

Promote youth friendly financial products and services

Facilitate access to local and national markets by the young people

Promote business development services for young people to thrive in the market.

Empower young people to be resilient.

In Partnership With

About the Children Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF)

CRVPF is a child’s rights and social justice, regional intermediary organization that seeks to advance the rights of children and young people. The organization was established in April 2015 with the objective of preventing violence against children and young people in the East African region, encompassing Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. CRVPF achieved this through grant-making and developing community-based organizations’ capacity, enabling them to effectively implement violence prevention initiatives and sustain these interventions beyond a program’s duration.

 
About gnuGrid CRB

gnuGrid CRB Limited (gnuGrid CRB) is an indigenous Credit Reference Bureau licensed and supervised by the Bank of Uganda. gnuGrid collects credit and transactional data on individual and non-individual borrowers, validates and profiles it into meaningful profiles that are disseminated in the form of credit reports and credit scores to enable credit providers to make informed lending decisions. These credit reports and credit scores also help borrowers prove their creditworthiness when attempting to get credit from financial institutions. gnuGrid serves all tiers of Uganda’s financial space but has a primary focus on last-mile credit consumers who mainly access credit through tier 4 financial institutions.

 

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