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Govt blames failure of Youth Livelihood Fund on local governments

XANTHIA LENI | PML Daily CorrespondentbyXANTHIA LENI | PML Daily Correspondent
April 8, 2020
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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.

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