• Access to skills training
  • Access to finance
  • Engagement and enable participants develop a collective voice
  • Access to on and off-farm inputs and output markets

+130,000
Young men and women taking part

+4,000

Young people living with disabilities

+4,000

Refugees

+70,000

Young women

Project Overview:

GOAL is implementing the Markets for Youth Programme in partnership with
the Mastercard Foundation. The five-year programme facilitates market
systems development change that enables 300,000 rural young women and
men between 16-35 years to access dignified and fulfilling work in Uganda
(70% women, 10% refugees and 5% PWDs).

The Markets System Approach

 

The approach is providing multiple pathways for rural young people to access work in the agricultural sector. The programme seeks to improve;

  • Access to skills training
  • Access to finance
  • Engagement and enable participants develop a collective voice
  • Access to on and off-farm inputs and output markets

Private sector partnership and civil society are playing a huge role in the implementation of the programme. The corner stone of the initiative is adaptive management with an emphasis on evidence-based learning, open communication and optimising the use of technology.

 

The programme employs a Making Markets Work Better for the Poor (M4P)
approach to market systems development; hence it is implemented through
private sector actors including financial institutions, input and output market
actors, ICT solution providers, business development service providers and
formal and informal training providers. The programme covers 18 districts
across Karamoja, Northern Uganda, Mid- western and Western Uganda.

Visit https://www.goalglobal.org/marketsforyouth/