• EDITORIAL POLICY
  • ABOUT US
PML Daily
  • Home
  • NEWS
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Regional
    • Africa
    • World
  • INVESTIGATIONS
    • National Archives
    • Special Reports
  • OpEd
  • BUSINESS
    • Agriculture
    • Tech
    • Finance
  • FEATURES
    • Health
    • Tours & Travel
    • Entertainment
    • Society
  • COLUMNISTS
    • The Suited Penguin
  • SPORT
  • Jobs
  • Magazines
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • NEWS
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Regional
    • Africa
    • World
  • INVESTIGATIONS
    • National Archives
    • Special Reports
  • OpEd
  • BUSINESS
    • Agriculture
    • Tech
    • Finance
  • FEATURES
    • Health
    • Tours & Travel
    • Entertainment
    • Society
  • COLUMNISTS
    • The Suited Penguin
  • SPORT
  • Jobs
  • Magazines
No Result
View All Result
PML Daily
No Result
View All Result
suubula suubula suubula
Home NEWS

Govt blames failure of Youth Livelihood Fund on local governments

XANTHIA LENI | PML Daily Correspondent by XANTHIA LENI | PML Daily Correspondent
April 8, 2020
in NEWS
0 0
2
SHARES
607
VIEWS
FacebookWhatsAppTwitter
James Ebitu, the permanent secretary to ministry of gender (PHOTO/File).

KAMPALA – The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has blamed the failure by the youths to repay the Youth Livelihood programme fund in the last three financial years to corruption by both youth and local leaders across the country.

The revelation was made by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, James Ebitu while appearing before Parliament’s Committee on Gender to present the 2020/2021 ministerial policy statement.

Ebitu told the Committee that youths and local government leaders connived to defraud the youth groups causing some youth groups not repaying the project fund.

He also blamed the low repayment of this fund to the poor attitude among some of the youth who embezzled the fund while other diverted it to other personal activities, including deliberate refusal to pay back to the beneficiaries.

The impact evaluation report conducted by independent consultants from Makerere university, Uganda Youth Development Link and California University noted that despite the challenges faced the youth Livelihood programme, it had a significant progress in supporting the youth to enhance their income and create self-employment opportunities.

In the last three financial years government injected Shs89.8 billion and benefited 241,799 youth across the country and of which 40% are female.

The report indicate that the youth Livelihood programme contributed 4% job creation of which 200,000 were direct and 500,000 jobs indirect.

Currently the ministry of Gender is considering returning the Youth livelihood programme phase 2 focusing on skilling the youth.

Meanwhile, the Ministry has admitted before Parliament that it is stuck with the rollout of the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE) which is targeting older persons in the 85 districts.

Ebitu said that the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment programme is in a shortfall of Shs45.58Bn with the amount required to sustain this programme rollout estimated at Shs142 .4Bn of which Shs34Bn will come from donors and government is required to avail the remaining Shs108Bn though only Shs62Bn has allocated for the next financial year 2020/21.

He stated that the available resources cannot support the full payment of the estimated 358,000 beneficiaries across the country.

Comments

Tags: James EbituMinistry of GendertopYouth Livelihood Funds

Related Posts

NAB wants all journalists vaccinated for coronavirus (PHOTO/File)
NEWS

Journalists seek vaccination priority

February 26, 2021
22
The Ethiopian Ambassador to Uganda H.E Almetsehay Meseret is joined by Security Minister Gen Elly Tumwiine in a toast for Adwa Victory at the event (PHOTO/Courtesy).
NEWS

Security Minister, scholars applaud Ethiopians on 125 years of ‘Adwa Victory’

February 26, 2021
30
Mr. Al Washington hands over the certificate to Amb. Abby Walusimbi who represented President Museveni (PHOTO/Courtesy).
NEWS

Museveni awarded for promoting investment across African continent

February 26, 2021
90
The Registrar General Mercy Kainobwisho gestures during the GI consultative meeting in Kampala (PHOTO/Courtesy).
BUSINESS

URSB engages multi-sectoral stakeholders over promotion of Uganda’s unique products

February 26, 2021
37
Mr. Michael Mugabi, the Managing Director at Housing Finance Bank noted that this partnership is pivotal in riding on the current digital transformation to support businesses across the entire housing value chain (PHOTO/Courtesy).
BUSINESS

Housing Finance Bank, Bulooka App unveil digital trading platform

February 26, 2021
60
Emirates is gradually resuming operations and rebuilding its network to provide more opportunities for travel, sparing no effort to ensure the highest standards of health and safety for its customers and employees at every travel touchpoint (PHOTO/File).
BUSINESS

Emirates to scale up flights to Uganda

February 26, 2021
82

Advertisement






 

 

About

The PML Daily, published via www.pmldaily.com is a publication of Post Media Ltd, a professional Digital/New Media company in Uganda.

Follow us

KIU

  • EDITORIAL POLICY
  • ABOUT US

© 2020 PMLDAILY.COM

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • NEWS
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Regional
    • Africa
    • World
  • INVESTIGATIONS
    • National Archives
    • Special Reports
  • OpEd
  • BUSINESS
    • Agriculture
    • Tech
    • Finance
  • FEATURES
    • Health
    • Tours & Travel
    • Entertainment
    • Society
  • COLUMNISTS
    • The Suited Penguin
  • SPORT
  • Jobs
  • Magazines

© 2020 PMLDAILY.COM

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In