ICT Skilling to Rural School Dropouts in Uganda.

SUPPORT COMMUNITY LIVELIHOOD INFORMATION

Main Street, Nakasongola Town Council-UGANDA

P.O Box 25424- Kampala, Uganda, Telephone +256 393374048, Mobile: 0774368726,

Quarter3 Aug 2025 -Marc 2026 Project Report

PROJECT: ICT Skilling to Rural School Dropouts in Uganda.

The project under name “ICT Skilling to Rural School Dropouts in Uganda” targets to strengthen capacity for school dropouts in using ICT skills to facilitate innovations based on latest ICT trends as a requirement to improve youth productivity for livelihood resilience.

 CELEBRATED OUTCOME- Quarter3 Aug 2025 -Marc 2026 Project Achievements

Approximately 100 youths in the pilot rural district out of the target 1,000 have been trained in trained video recording and editing, develop apps, document processing, internet use to access content for education, agriculture, healthcare, climate and environmental protection, data collection and analysis tools, online marketing and conferencing.

The project has currently started boosting youth productivity and savings for households Incomes as a need for supporting economic recovery in rural communities.

Completed Activities- Quarter3 Aug 2025 -Marc 2026 Project Report

• Identification of 1 Youths sub county zone.
• Sensitization of community leadersin 1pilot youths sub zones.
• Training of 100 youths in 1 sub zone of the district.

Planned Activities for Quarter4 April-Nov2026

(Targeting over 100 youths to have ICT skilling)

• Identification of another 1 Youths sub county zone.
• Sensitization of community leadersin 1pilot youths sub zones.
• Training of 100 youths in 1 sub zone of the district.

Next Quarter4 (April-Nov 2026) BUDGET SUMMARY- USD 2,000

Project: ICT Skilling to Rural School Dropouts in Uganda (USD 2,000) targeting over 100 beneficiaries for quarter4-2026

Operational Overhead costs

                     USD 1,500

Programs Activities

                      USD 500

Grand total  USD 2,000

EXPECTED FROM LOCAL SOURCES

                                               USD 1,500

EXPECTED FROM GLOBAL GIVING

                                              USD 500

TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET (April2026-Nov 2026)

                                              USD 2,000

 Existing Challenges:

• Limited funds for setting up and hiring ICT training and resource centers, tutors wage, and monitoring tools.
• Slow decision making by authorities in providing secure community ICT Recreation/meeting centers to facility faster setting up for ICT resource center.
• Ineffective ICT devices-need more new devices to facilitate effective trainings.
• Illiteracy of target persons-they are slow in conceptualization of ICT knowledge.
• Communication barriers with the target groups-school dropouts.

Sample Pictures Below:

Figure 1HIRED ICT devices technician at the Refugee Assistance distribution Point.

Figure 2ICT Resource Center-1.

Sensitization-of-Community-Local-leaders

Compiled by Salim KIGUNDU-Founder and Partnership Coordinator    

Links:

• Organization Website
• SCLI LINKEDIN page
• YOUTHS Skills training webpage

• Quarter3 Aug 2025 -Marc 2026 Project Report (PDF)