IKUMBA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION
(IYDO)
PROJECT
PROPOSAL ON INCOME GENERATION FOR YOUTH
PROJECT
TITLE: APPLICATION FOR FUNDING
SUPPORT TO IMPROVE INCOMES FOR YOUTH OF
IKUMBA SUB COUNTY, RUBANDA DISTRICT, UGANDA, EAST AFRICA
PREPARED
BY: IKUMBA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZTION
(IYDO)
CONTACT PERSONS: 1. JOHNBOSCO MAGEZI
E-MAIL:
jbmagi2016@gmail.com
2. STEPHEN MBABAZI
E-MAIL:
mbabazistephen@gmail.com
INTRODUCTION
ORGANISATION BACKGROUND
IKUMBA YOUTH
DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZTION (IYDA) is a community-based organization
operating in the new district of Rubanda
formerly in Kabale district, Uganda, East Africa. Its head offices are located
in Ikumba Sub County. The organization has been involved in organizing
communities in ensuring that they have better life.
The organization is governed by the youth and the Executive
elected by members heads the day-to-day management. There are key policies and operational
procedures in place, which guide management and executive in the course of
executing their duties.
The communities involved have been vulnerable youth,
children, youth students and the some working youth in the sub county. These
initiatives of development have helped many communities especially in income
generation for sustainable development.
The main objective has been to promote community
initiatives for sustainable development. The developments are community owned
and aimed at creating high standards of living with reach.
The organization is now busy working towards
developing a three (3) year strategic plan, which will highlight key priority
activities and strategies for their realization. The consultation is already going on within
and outside the organization. The
consultation process is leaning towards Agriculture and Education sectors in
which the organization wants to give special attention.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
The proposed Project will be located in Ikumba Sub-county
of Rubanda District. Rubanda District is
located in southwestern Uganda about 400 km from Uganda’s capital city –
Kampala. It is boardering one of the
famous mountain gorilla national parks in the world. The Sub-county of ikumba has
an estimated population of 90,000 people of which the youth dominate.
Rubanda is one
of the sub counties of the district that is remotely located. The villages
together with many surrounding communities do not have easy access to adequate
services of whatever kind.
The proposal of establishing of enabling youth in Ikumba
Sub County to improve on incomes arose out of a consultative meetings held at
community level and by our youth leaders.
The organization has found it wanting to have a funding to
enable active youth in income generation.
PROJECT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
GOAL: The main goal of this proposed project
is to improve household income in active youth in Ikumba Sub County and the
surrounding areas through provision of start up capital.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
In view of the above overall
goal, this project has three objectives as follows:
1
To reduce vulnerability of poor youth by improving their disposal household
incomes in the sub county.
2
To improve entrepreneurship skills among rural youth of
the sub county
3
To strengthen Small scale projects inside and out side
the sub county owned by the youth.
PROBLEM
STATEMENT
We all know that poverty is a “monster” which
continues to grow in some parts of our region. It is our conviction that as
poverty is multi-faceted and immense, so must be the means we deplore to
eradicate it. Poverty must be fought with adequate and appropriate means.
The biggest population of the youth practice crude
but small scale or subsistence farming / enterprises in the district. They
constitute 78% but still live in abject property. These youth grow maize, bananas,
Irish potatoes and sorghum both as food
crops and cash crops to improve on the house hold incomes however, some have
started animal husbandry such as piggery projects(local breeds). They are also
engaged in small businesses and simple trading.
Youth dealing in these enterprises have not yet
benefited from the enterprise because it fetches very low market prices, which
are in most cases unstable, thus leaving their incomes very low coupled with
low standards of living.
The causes for the low incomes by most youth enterprises
have been due to: - low participation of the youth in the value chain
activities and agricultural marketing groups which increase bargaining power of
farmers in the markets. Selling un-valued added unprocessed maize products
which are of poor quality brought about by poor storage and post- harvest
handling practices, limited access to value adding equipments, and poor
linkages between production and marketing, and access to credit facilities
still a problem have all hampered development.
Many people from Ikumba Sub County are striving to
have small-scale loans with little or no success. Such loans and guidance are
available to individuals who have securities and better placed in communities.
The poor vulnerable youth of Ikumba have not adequately benefited from
financial services.
The poor state of education facilities and the cost
of the social services are posing a great danger for the rural people.
To ensure youth and enterprises complete favorably
through the current stiffer competition in agricultural and business sectors,
there is need to help the local people identify their potential. Mobilization of all stakeholders is required
for the youth.
Tools for development should be in place for successes
among the youth, this will enable the youth in farming to play a more active
role in value chain for increased farm productivity, quality improvement and
standardization and household incomes.
PROJECT JUSTIFICATION
Uganda was
dubbed the “Entrepreneur's Paradise” by Fast Company magazine in May
2004, based on its top ranking as the most entrepreneurial of 40 countries
surveyed in the “2003 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor." Forty-three percent of the working population
is self-employed according to a 2006 report by the Ugandan Ministry of Labour.
Given this entrepreneurial environment, it is perhaps
not surprising that microfinance has taken off like a rocket in Uganda . Starting from scratch ten years ago, by the
end of 2003, there were approximately 1,500 microfinance institutions (MFI’s) serving more than 935,000 small savers and close to 400,000
borrowers in the country.
The project will provide
small loans to youth of Ikumba sub county. Projects will improve the quality of
life. These projects generally relate to education, home improvement, and
income-generation. The Micro credit Fund
will enable these families to implement the income-generation projects that
they have planned.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The implementation of this project will be handled by
the project management team of IYDO who
will oversee the proper management of the funds and business ideas. The project management team will be in charge
of mobilizing and selecting needy youth in the four parishes of Ikumba Sub
County.
He will be responsible with compilation of all
reports necessary to the project. This encompasses monitoring, evaluation and
progress reports. The day-to-day running of the project will be undertaken by
the project management team.
COMMUNITY YOUTH PARTICIPATION
The IYDO under which this project is to be implemented,
promotes participatory development. A youth
community project to be organized by the youth actively. The community will mobilize the required
energy and will participate at all levels of decision making during and after
project implementation.
This will facilitate project sustainability and a
spirit of “our project” as opposed to “their project”.
PROJECT BENEFICIARIES
The projected beneficiaries of this project are the rural
and poor youth of Ikumba sub county in five parishes.
EXPECTED OUTPUTS
1
Increased projects owned by youth in the sub
county.
2
Viable and sustainable marketing system of
enterprises established.
3
Household Incomes for the Rural Youth improved.
4
Strong and viable Youth farmer groups
established.
5
Quality improvement and standardization as a
result of training in value chain addition
6
Improved homestead disposable income.
7
Improved socio-economic well being of the rural
Youth
INDICATORS
1
68 new employment opportunities created for Youth and
Women in production, business, processing, and storage marketing and managerial
levels.
2
75% of the Youth in farmer groups actively
participating in collective marketing and processing.
3
Rural Youth farmers/ enterprise groups strengthened.
4
Leaders of the Youth groups trained in governance and
management skills
5
Membership and subscription fees by the Youth groups
increased by 30%
6
Number of Youth farmers’ access improved agricultural
inputs cooperatively.
7
Number of Youth farmers accessing affordable financial
services.
MONITORING
AND EVALUATION PLAN
The process of monitoring will be participatory and
continuous at all levels. Each stage in enterprises will be closely monitored
to ensure full compliance with the objectives of the project.
Participatory tools will be designed to ensure full
participation of all members. A feed back system will be designed to facilitate
a two-way communication channel for remedial action to be taken promptly.
members shall always meet before monitoring and
evaluation being done discussions shall always be carried out indicating the
progress of the activities, then monitoring shall be conducted in relation to
the information and the details of the project progress, after which the
representatives shall meet to discuss the findings to determine whether the
project is progressing as intended or not.
The findings shall be integrated to come up with
comprehensive reports to be forwarded to the funding agency.
SUSTAINABILITY
PLAN
1. The
project will build the capacity of the Youth groups to enable them develop
business plans. This will make the Youth group more focused and enable it sell
its developmental proposals to other development organizations
2. Co-funding
will be encouraged overtime in project activities by encouraging Youth to
contribute to their group and this will create a sense of ownership and
self-reliable to enable them carry their own educational programs
3. The
project will ensure that there is increased membership to enable them carry out
their own financial obligation.
4. Basic
business management skills will be shared among the youth, which will help them
in tracking progress of their business.
PROJECT BUDGET
|
No
|
Item/activity
|
Quantity
|
Cost
|
Amount in Dollars ($)
|
Amount in
UGX
|
|
1.
|
Procurement of office stationery
|
|
|
$116.6
|
400,000
|
|
2.
|
Selection of beneficiaries
|
80 people in four parishes
|
Transport for Five days @ at 3,000/=
Facilitators 2 people for 10 days each at 30,000/=
|
$625
|
1,500,000=
|
|
3
|
Radio Programme
|
4 Programs
|
@ 50,000=
|
$83.3
|
200,000=
|
|
4
|
Orientation of local leadership
|
|
|
$83.3
|
200,000=
|
|
5
|
Establishment of a demonstration site
|
1
|
Lump sum
|
$416.6
|
1,000,000=
|
|
6
|
Purchasing of pigs / piglets
|
80 piglets
|
25,000=
|
$833.3
|
2,000,000=
|
|
7
|
Funds for micro-credit finance
|
80 people
|
Lump sum
|
$8,333.3
|
20,000,000=
|
|
8
|
Personnel
|
3 people
|
@250,000 for 12 months
|
$3,750
|
9,000,000=
|
|
9
|
Training of beneficiaries
|
5 workshops
|
1,000,000
|
$2,083.3
|
5,000,000=
|
|
10
|
Transport Costs & utilities
|
|
Lump sum
|
$833.3
|
2,000,000=
|
|
11
|
Office Rent
|
12 Months
|
70,000
|
$350
|
840,000=
|
|
12
|
Miscellaneous
|
|
|
$833.3
|
2,000,000=
|
|
7
|
TOTAL
|
|
|
$18,391.7
|
44,140,000=
|
|
|
|
|
TIME FRAME
|
|
|||
|
QI
|
Q2
|
Q3
|
Q4
|
||||
|
1
|
Office Rent
|
1 office rented
|
x
|
|
|
|
PROJECT MGT TEAM
|
|
2
|
Procurement of office stationery
|
Relevant stationery procured
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
PROJECT MGT TEAM
|
|
3
|
Selection of beneficiaries
|
40 beneficiaries selected and identified
|
x
|
|
|
|
PROJECT MGT TEAM
|
|
4
|
Radio Programmes
|
1 radio programme aired about the project
|
|
x
|
|
|
PROJECT MGT TEAM
|
|
5
|
Orientation of local leadership
|
1 meeting held for all stakeholders at parish and sub
county level.
|
|
x
|
|
|
PROJECT MGT TEAM
|
|
6
|
Training of beneficiaries
|
40 people training in micro credit
|
|
x
|
|
x
|
IYDO
|
|
7
|
Establishment of a demonstration
|
1 demonstration enterprise established at the head
office
|
|
|
x
|
|
IYDO
|
|
8
|
Startup capital to women and youth
|
40 men and women receive a revolving fund
|
|
x
|
|
|
IYDO
|
|
9
|
Hire one consultant micro credit
|
1 consultant hired
|
|
|
x
|
x
|
IYDO
|
|
10
|
Transport Costs & Utilities
|
Transport costs secured and delivery of all activities
done
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
IYDO
|
|
11
|
Monitoring and evaluation
|
|
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
PROJECT MGT TEAM
|
IMPLEMENTATION WORKPLAN
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