Learn to Earn! Trades training in Gulu, Uganda

FAMILY HARVEST FOUNDATION  PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT JUNE 2019

NAME OF IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATION: FAMILY HARVEST FOUNDATION

PROJECT TITLE: Skills training for 90 youth in Gulu, Uganda

PERIOD OF REPORT: APRIL - JUNE 2019

NAME AND CONTACT DETAILS OF PROJECT LEADERS:

1. FRANCIS OYAT OTOO;

email: familyharvestfoundation@gmail.com 

1. ANNE MCKEE

email: anne.bt.mc@icloud.com 

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 2019/06/28

 Part 1: GENERAL INFORMATION

Executive summary

This project will benefit 90 youth from a war affected region in northern Uganda who cannot continue with their school educational program in Acholi sub region from Gulu district yet are jobless due to lack of skills.  They are therefore prone to all forms of abuse and can easily resort to idleness, prostitution or bad character as they are faced with profound economic challenges.  Targeted project beneficiaries will seek admission to enroll and participate.  A deliberate attempt will continue to be made by the project staff and vocational school management in consultation with school heads and community leaders to advertise, organize community visits and enroll more participants.

The objective of the project is to train 90 youth in vocational skills education, life skills survival and entrepreneurship and provide them with social services and formal education.  Sixty percent female youth, with a bias towards the more remote areas will benefit from the project.  The project targets out of formal school youth aged between 16 and 25.

Project activities concentrated on provision of vocational skills training in livelihoods and entrepreneurship. As the capacitation of the project continue, 26 youth were enrolled, received training on different skill set with the support in April - June period and has continued in the training to date.

The limited funds received for payment of school fees negatively affected the tools and equipment, partial scholarship and tutor’s allowances acquisition as most trainees are frequently chased away from the vocational school for non-payment of requisite fees. Some few youth who had been brought back to school by their parents managed to pay for their fees partially others have abandoned training.

1.1: Progress on Results

1.1.2 Progress on Activities

Project Specific Objectives: OBJECTIVE 1: To provide vocational skills to 90 youth from Gulu district

Activity area: A1. Education and Entrepreneurship

activities: Conducting training in hairdressing, tailoring, construction, welding and Catering.

Outputs:

indicators: Number of youth enrolled. 

               : Number of courses taught.

target: 90. Hairdressing: 5; Tailoring: 6; Construction: 5; Electrical installation: 5; Welding: 5 and Catering: 0.

actual: 29. Hairdressing: 5; Tailoring: 6; Construction: 4; Electrical installation: 3; Welding: 4 and Catering: 4.

Explanations: Three community visits were made by staff, 12 radio announcements made in 3 local radio stations to invite trainees.

A2. Education and Entrepreneurships

Activities: Visiting community Focal person

Outputs:

Indicators: Number of visit

Target: 3

Actual: 3

Explanations: Local council Keyi A; Laliya Oguru and Keyi B.

Activity area: A3. Education and life skill

Activities: Health education training selected to benefit participants.

Outputs:

Indicators: Number of partners invited

Target: 3

Actual: 1

Explanations: Partner Straight Talk Foundation will conduct activity in July 2019.

Objective 2: To provide educational scholarship for skills training to 90 youth.

Activity area B1. Education and training

Activities: Training selected to benefit

Indicators: Number of trainees selected

Target: 90

Actual: 8

Explanations: Only 8 who are able to pay part of the school fees benefited and continuing

OBJECTIVE 3: To procure tools & equipment , and materials for students training

 Activity area: C1. Education and training

Activities: Tools, equipment and training kits procurements

Outputs:

Indicators: Number of tools & equipment, materials bought

Target: Sewing machine: 20; Clothing materials bought: 5

Actual: Sewing machine: 5; Clothing materials bought: 1

Explanations: Five sewing machines were bought  and added to the exiting 5 making 10 fuctional machines to train 20 learners in a day.

Objective 4: To pay Tutor’s allowancces.

Activity area: D1. Education and training

Activities: Tutor’s teaching allowance

Outputs:

Indicators: months covered by report.

Target: 3

Actaul: 3

Explanation: Monthly allowances paid to individual staff- tutor for hairdressing, tailoring, construction, Skills centre admin and Tutor for catering.

 1.2: Progress towards Objectives

1.2.1 Objective 1:

To provide skills training to 90 youth with at least 60% females, in different skills trade mentioned. Progress partially realized.

The project has managed to train 26 youth in hairdressing, tailoring, construction, Catering, Electrical installation and welding.  Thus 29% of the target has been achieved so far.

1.2.2 Objective 2:       

 To provide partial educational scholarships to 90 youth in five skills area.  Progress partially realized.        The table below shows the number of youth who benefited through the partial educational scholarships in the period of report.

Type of educational          Number of youth beneficiaries

Females                            5

Males                                3

Total Scholarships            8

We received a net of $1464 on 24/04/2019 out of the $1750 gross donations amount as at end of March 2019 Accelerator. Utilised fund: $1163 un-utilised: $301.The funds received were re-planned to acquire tools & equipment, partial scholarships and partial tutors’ allowances.

1.2.3 Objective 3: To procure tools & equipment, and materials for students training.     Progress partially realized. Tools & equipment acquired including materials.

1.3:0 Project continuations

1.5. 1 Project continuation faces some difficulties though chances of continuing at the same pace is high.  This is attributed to the poor response by parents to pay fees for the youth who have interest to study, failure to provide vocational education and inclusion of social services particularly skills training.

1.3.2 Main activities planned for July, August and September 2019

Project Specific Objectives 

OBJECTIVE 1: To provide vocational skills to 90 youth from Gulu district.

Activity area: Education and Entrepreneurship

Activities: Training

Outputs:

Number of participants to train: 29.

1 Monitoring of activities

Registration of students for Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT)examinations

Number of trainees to register for examinations minimum: 15

Number of announcements and community visits: 2

Number of adverts to make: 12;

Objective 2: To provide partial educational scholarship for skills training to 90 youth.

Activity area: vocational skills training

Activities: Choosing new partial scholarship beneficiaries

Outputs: Number of beneficiaries identified: 8; fees payment and number of scholarship awarded.

Objective 3: To procure tools & equipment, and materials for students training.

Activity: Education and training

Activities: Procurement of tools, equipment and materials acquired

Outputs: Number of tools, equipment and materials acquired: 1 ginder machine; 1 roll of cloth material, hair blower.

Objective 4: To pay Tutor’s allowances

Activity area: Education  and training

Activities: Pay allowances for staff

Outputs: Number of staff per month: 3 months.

Part 2: OTHER INFORMATION

2.1: Participation

a. Our project has 18 youth participating in the training activities. 

b. Reinstead the 8 participants who had fallen off.

2.2: Capacity Building and Partnerships

a. New board members were orientated.

b. Staffs coordinated well with other village leaders, local government units/ministry in carrying out project activities.

c. A tutor for hairdressing participated project to learn more on the teaching methods and curriculum for project beneficiaries.               

2.3: Gender Equity

a. Gender issues were considered at all level that ensured all beneficiaries had access to the benefits offered by the project.

b. Our gender selection parameters of 60:40 were maintained.

2.4: Child Centeredness and Rights Based Approaches

a. We continued to enroll youth with children to participate in our training programs.

b. This reduced the gap between young jobless mothers and those without children.

2.5: Challenges, Lessons Learnt and dissemination

a. Successful and productive partnership created between GlobalGving Foundation and Family Harvest Foundation.

b. Limited funding received to finance the planned skills training project on vocational education.

c. Low level partnership relations among the INGOs/NGOs in Uganda thus limited the number of beneficiaries to be supported.

2.6: Emerging Advocacy Issues:

a. We did not participate in any advocacy in April, May and June 2019 except for enviromental.

2.7: Organizational Changes:                                             

a. No organizational changes.

2.8: Other Comments:

Global giving needs to strengthen our efforts to build our capacity to provide to raise more funding for both financial and material support (tools & equipment and cash donations).