Wednesday, September 8, 2021

RCC accuses KCCA of failed youth Livelihood Programme

The youth Livelihood Programme (YLP) turned into a executive-financed programme designed and launched in 2014 as one of the most interventions of the executive according to the high unemployment cost and poverty among the adolescence within the nation.

The Resident city Commissioner (RCC) for Kampala, Hood Hussein, has accused the Directorate of Labour and Gender on the Kampala metropolis Council Authority of failure to accurately enforce the national early life Livelihood programme.

The youth Livelihood Programme (YLP) became a govt-financed programme designed and launched in 2014 as one of the crucial interventions of the government in accordance with the high unemployment cost and poverty among the many adolescence within the country.

whereas speaking on the international early life Day Celebrations for Kampala, Hood spoke of the programme had been designed to empower the early life to harness their socio-financial skills, increase self-employment alternatives and profits degrees, youngsters, on account that its launch, it has no longer delivered anything tangible.

"When the adolescence livelihood programme was launched, we have been all enthusiastic about it, but there is nothing to exhibit aside from the record that turned into made by means of the gender and labour branch. we now have a problem on the directorate of gender in KCCA but I want to ask them to make sure that the parish development model programme if channelled via them, is effectively dealt with in contrast to what has been came about before," Hood talked about.

Hood additionally asked adolescence leaders to always be vigilant and ensure that their members get what's allocated to them and that the meant agencies are the ones that acquire the allocations.

"govt has put buildings in vicinity to arrange the formative years so that you can easily access these programmes. it's up to the youth to work challenging and improvement from such programmes other than enabling to be used by self-in quest of politicians to interact in subversive activities comparable to riots," he added.

Dorothy Kisaka, the government director of Kampala Capital metropolis Authority cited that KCCA has embarked on the programme to boost urban framing and advised all the adolescence to embody it and have interaction in city agriculture to support the adolescence get out of poverty and create jobs for prosperity.

"I name upon the entire adolescence in Kampala to include the alternatives within the KCCA's urban farming programme at Kyanja to be a part of the efforts to serve the city and the complete country through enhanced agriculture," Kisaka pointed out.

The early life Day became honored under the theme; Transformation techniques; early life innovations for humans and planetary health.

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