By Francis Oyat Otoo | Project Team Leader
FAMILY HARVEST FOUNDATION PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT SEPTEMBER 2019
NAME OF IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATION: FAMILY HARVEST FOUNDATION
PROJECT TITLE: SKILLING 90 YOUTH FROM GULU
PERIOD OF REPORT: JUL - SEPT 2019
NAME AND CONTACT DETAILS OF PROJECT LEADERS:
1. FRANCIS OYAT OTOO; email: familyharvestfoundation@gmail.com
2. ANNE MCKEE email: anne.bt.mc@icloud.com
DATE OF SUBMISSION: 2019/09/26
Part 1: GENERAL INFORMATION
Executive summary
Our project is focus to train 90 youth from northern Uganda that suffered under a civil war for 20 years and now under a recovery program who cannot continue with their formal school educational program from Gulu district to gain hands-on vocational skills. They are therefore prone to all forms of abuse, neglect and have resorted to idleness, prostitution, aguu (notorious street gangs) or bad character as they are faced with profound economic challenges. Targeted project beneficiaries 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 participants.
Our objective 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, from the most remote areas will benefit from the project. The project targets youth aged between 16 and 25 .
Project activities concentrated on provision of vocational skills training in livelihoods like through agriculture, job creation and entrepreneurship. After the capacitation of project, 26 youth enrolled, received training on different skill set with the support since April to Sept 2019 period and has continued in the training to date.
The limited funds received for payment of school fees heavily affected the tools and equipment, partial scholarship and tutor’s allowances negatively as most trainees are frequently chased away or abscond from the vocational school due to 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 while 12 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: Education and Entrepreneurship; Education and Entrepreneurships; Education and life skills
Activities: Conducting training in hairdressing, tailoring, construction,Catering, Electrical installation and welding; Visiting community Focal person and invited partners for health talk.
Objective 2: To provide educational scholarship for skills training to 90 youth.
Activity: vocational skills training
Activities: Choosing new partial scholarship beneficiaries
Outputs: Number of beneficiaries identified, n/a; fees paid, number of partial scholarships, 7
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, planned list continue to suffice.
Objective 4: To pay Tutor’s allowances
Activity: Education and training
Activities: Pay allowances for staff
Outputs: Number of staff, 3 for 3 months (Sept, Oct and Nov 2019)
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 realized, approximately 16%.
The project has managed to maintain and train 14 youth in hairdressing, tailoring, construction, Catering, Electrical installation and welding. Thus 16% of the target has been achieved so far though a drop from the previous period report due to difficulty in raising the tuition fees.
1.2.2 Objective 2:
To provide partial educational scholarships to 90 youth in five skills. 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 4
Males 2
Total scholarships 6
We received 4 donations with gross amount of USD88.21 on the GG donor platform, not yet transferred.
1.2.3 Objective 3: To procure tools & equipment, and materials for students training. Progress partially realized. Tools & equipment acquired including clothing materials, food items for catering trainees, burnt bricks for construction trainees. We received one donation during the August 2019 Little by Little Campaign.
1.3:0 Project continuations
1.3. 1 Project continuation faces enormous challenges 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: Education and Entrepreneurship
Activities: Training, Monitoring of activities, Register for examinations, Number of announcements and community visits,
Outputs: Number of those trained, 14; Number of monitoring done, 2; Number of trainees who register to sit for examination, n/a; Number of adverts made, 2.
Objective 2: To provide educational scholarship for skills training to 90 youth.
Activity: vocational skills training
Activities: Choosing new partial scholarship beneficiaries
Outputs: Number of beneficiaries identified, n/a; fees payment and number of youth on partial scholarship, 7
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, planned list continue to suffice.
Objective 4: To pay Tutor’s allowances
Activity: Education and training
Activities: Pay allowances for staff
Outputs: Number of staff, 3; 3 months (Sept, Oct and Nov 2019
Part 2: OTHER INFORMATION
2.1: Participation
a. Our project has 14 youth participating in the training activities.
2.2: Capacity Building and Partnerships
a. New board members were orientated and continue to work for Family Harvest Foundation.
b. Staffs coordinated well with other village leaders, local government units/ministry in carrying out project activities until the end of term.
c. A tutor for hairdressing joined Watye Ki gen https://www.watyekigen.org organization project to gain more experience on teaching and modeling war affected beneficiaries.
2.3: Gender Equity
a. Gender issues will continue throughout our project at all levels and stages that ensured all beneficiaries had access to the benefits offered.
b. Our gender selection parameters of 60:40 will remain a constant.
2.4: Child Centeredness and Rights Based Approaches
a. We enrolled a youth with a child to participate in our training programs.
b. This will continue to reduce the gap between young jobless young-mothers and those without children.
2.5: Challenges, Lessons Learnt and dissemination
a. Successful and productive partnership continues to exist between GGF and FHF.
b. A partnership between Watye Ki gen https://www.watyekigen.org; VSO International, Gulu office and FHF is in high stages.
c. Reduction in the number of trainees due to inability by their parents to pay fees.
d. No other source of funding yet secured.
2.6: Emerging Advocacy Issues:
a. We did not participate in any advocacy in July, August and Sept 2019.
2.7: Organizational Changes:
a. No organizational changes but a low number of trainees.
2.8: Other Comments:
The planned training due in October 2019, by Global giving will strengthen our efforts to build our capacity to raise more funding for both financial and material support (tools & equipment and cash donations).
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