Uganda (TUP)
The Targeting the Ultra Poor (TUP) project, funded by Cartier Philanthropy is a tailored response designed to address the unique needs of 1650 ultra-poor youths in Luwero and Kiryandongo districts of Uganda through a comprehensive, time-bound, sequenced set of interventions. The project aimed to provide an integrated combination of services and training to address the varied causes of youth ultra-poverty in Uganda.
During the second year of implementation (Jan – Dec 2017) the project made strong progress in delivering an integrated set of components: life skills and technical skills training; consumption stipends; enterprise selection; asset transfer; savings and financial education; and social integration. Collectively these components provide the ‘big push’ that participants need to graduate from ultra-poverty. The following are some of the highlighted successes coming out of this program:
- Ultra-poor targeted youth in Luwero District have increased capacity to increase incomes through enhanced agriculture and livestock productivity as well as petty trading
- Ultra-poor youth in Luwero District have enhanced knowledge, skills and resources to improve the health and nutritional status for themselves and their families through greater food security
- Ultra-poor youth in Luwero District have increased life skills, financial skills and savings behaviour to cope better with crisis and access resources from their communities
- Better social integration, higher subjective wellbeing and aspiration through Mentoring/Coaching and establishment of Village Poverty Reduction Committees
- Ultra-poor youth have been empowered with skills to make relevant market linkages, facilitated by BRAC
- Funding Partners: Cartier Charitable Foundation and AESTUS
- Implementing Organization: BRAC International
- Participants: 1,660
- Duration: 2016-2019
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