Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF)

The strategy of this programme is to reach out to ultimate beneficiaries: young mend and women between 15-35 years old that are involved in emerging and established enterprises via its intermediate/direct beneficiaries; government and non-governmental organisations as well as private sector representatives with a mandate to promote youth employment through enterprise development, among them business development services providers and other training institutions and organisations offering business start-up and growth training and advisory services to young women and men. The project will undertake various activities clustered in five categories based on ILO experience in Uganda: - the activity cluster on media campaign products; - the activity cluster on revising the curricula; - the activity cluster on providing evaluation support and conducting evaluation clinics; - the activity cluster on the competitive grant scheme for youth; - the activity cluster on providing business development support for start up and expansion of enterprises owned and managed by youth.

Project symbol

UGA/13/02/EEC

Admin unit

CO-Dar es Salaam

Start date

01/05/2014

End date

30/11/2016

Total allocation

3112365

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

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Development Partners

Delegation of the European Union to Uganda

Country/Countries

Uganda

Outcomes

Promoting sustainable enterprises