ChildFund with partners Partners for Children Worldwide and Lango Child and Community Development Federation implemented a 15-months project funded by The Coca Cola Foundation in Teso and Lango Sub Regions. The project was designed to respond to the effects of high teenage pregnancy brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, low-income levels of women as well as unemployment among youth in Lango and Teso Sub Regions.

• To support 100 teenage mothers and youth to increase their annual income through vocational skills from $101 to $162 (60%).
• To support 100 youth through microenterprise development skills from $101 to $162 (60%).
• Reaching out to a total of 240 women aged 20-60 years by supporting them increase their income from agribusiness skills from $101 to $152 (50%).

The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF)
Learn More: https://www.coca-colacompany.com/about-us/the-coca-cola-foundation

ChildFund International
Learn More: https://www.childfund.org/

Lango Child and Community Development Federation (LACCODEF)

Learn More: https://www.laccodef.org/

Partners for Children Worldwide (PfCW)

Learn More: https://www.pfcwug.org/

District Local Governments of Dokolo, Katakwi, Amuria and Serere.

• Katakwi
• Amuria
• Serere
• Dokolo

• Improved income among the different categories-; from $18 to $580 (3122%) among teenage mothers aged 13-19 and youths, $42 to $376 (791%) among youths aged 20-24 and $51 to $387 among Women aged 25-60 years.
• Knowledge diffusion: The project was designed that each beneficiary is supposed to replicate skills gained to at least two other people in the community. By end of the project, 80% of the 440 participants had reached 481(163M:318F) community members as secondary beneficiaries with the different acquired skills.
• Mindset change among targeted communities, youths appreciated and picked interest in agriculture and farming as a business (FAB), which they initially abhorred.
• Synergies were established between the WYEE project and partner programs, and the BMZ-funded livelihood project which contributed towards the successful implementation of the WYEE project. The mentorship/training extended by the role model youths earlier trained by BMZ grant encouraged the WYEE project participants to embrace the support.