Learn to Earn! Trades training in Gulu, Uganda

NAME OF IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATION: FAMILY HARVEST FOUNDATION
PROJECT TITLE: LEARN TO EARN! TRADES TRAINING IN GULU, UGANDA
PERIOD OF REPORT: JANUARY - MARCH 2024

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: 2024/03/18
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Part 1: GENERAL INFORMATION
Executive summary
Vocational skills training to 90 youth from northern Uganda within 2 years from the inception of the Learn to Earn project is still a challenge due to financial challenges by the parents in northern Uganda. 

Six tailoring, five construction, five hairdressing and three youth are registered and attending lessons. The livlihood project in Nwoya district is successful with one group produly implementing their activities based on the community led-development approaches.

We received $226.66 as donations majorly from our monthly donors and one from an  anonymous  donor and no  disbursement during this period of reporting. Our total expenses during the period of reporting is USD115.8. Our organisation website have remained active. We intend to participate in the 2024 April Little by Little due from the 8th to 12 th April 2024.

The opportunities for new partnership continue to unfold as different organisations hear about Family Harvest Foundation and its partnership with GlobalGiving Foundation and with the global agenda of shifting the power we expect to play key roles in community development.

Part 2: OTHER INFORMATION
2.1: Participation
a. We expect the 18 youth registered in term one 2024 to complete studies irrespective of the challenges they face at family level. FEMI Netherland delegate visited our community project in Koch Goma sub county in Nwoya district with interest to build partnership. Family Harvest Foundation is now registered among the prospective partners they intend to work with.

2.3: Gender Equity
a. We pay keen attention to gender issues in every aspect of our project and shall remain at 60:40 with a focus to encourage more women to take part in our activities. The majority of our participants are becoming females.
2.4: Child Centeredness and Rights Based Approaches
a. Our collaboration with Save the Children International, Movement for Community-Led Development Uganda (MCLDU), Gulu NGO Forum and the GlobalGiving child centered resources provide us good opportunities to train even child mothers or non mothers gain knowledge needed for children all over the world and at our facilitiy as well as in the community.
2.5: Challenges, Lessons Learnt and dissemination
a. Successful and productive partnership continues to unfold between GGF, MCLDU, Gulu NGO Forum and FHF. The new partnership with FEMI Netherland is the most recent development.
b.The Movement for Community Led-Development (MCLD), CARE International, WEZESHA Impact, Save the Children International, Gulu District Local Govenment, Nwoya District Local Government and Gulu City Council, Uganda National Oil Company- UNOC have continued to be partners with different project/program activities and remained active friends of FHF.
2.6: Emerging Advocacy Issues:
a. We have continued participating in the advocacy program to end stunting for children from 0 to 5 years old in partnership with MCLDU through the Right2Grow project in Nwoya District Local Government in the third year of the five year project, ending child mairrage in collaboration with Gils Not Brides. Our advocacy project supported by the RighttoGrow project financed by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A data collection execrise gathering community voices for making an informed decisions to source for support for the community was carried out between November and December 2023 and are searching funds for this year's projects. 

b. We have a collaboration with Save the Childen International advocating to end Teenage pregnancies and Child marriage in Nwoya District Local Government for the second year by implementing the National Strategy to End Teenage Pregnacies and Child Marriages. Our community volunteer advocates have continued to persue parents and local community leaders to enforce the surge to fight the practice.

c. Our new partner organisation Girls Not Brides is involving us is a series of advocacy program to end child marriages in Uganda.

d. We were invloved in data collection to gather Community Voices to provide appropriate community oriented support in 2024 and the years ahead on nutrition, food security and WASH. At the moment we are collecting data on cooperative societies in northern Uganda.
2.7: Organizational Changes:                                             
a. Plans to establish a permanent site for the school/office space is discussed and a search is in its final stage.
b. The Board, location staff and management structures remained in force and are active but with the death of one board member, a search for one to replace is on.
c. Website hosting and subscription have remained active with difficulty in financing the payment though paid todate.
d. Instagram, Facebook and twitter publicity continued though on a low pace given lack of a trained IT personnel.
e. Staffs have no salary arrears while the Landlord have accumulated rental arrears for the period January to February 2024.
2.8: Other Comments:
a. Our EMIS registration number for the vocational school is 4A000052 being a requirement by the Ministry of Education Science Sports and Technology to recognise any institution conducting educational services.