The Youth Livelihood Programme is a Government of Uganda five year rolling programme targeting the poor, and unemployed youths aged 18-30 in all districts of Uganda. The overall objective is to empower the youths in Uganda to harness their social economic potential and increase self-employment opportunities and income levels. It has three programme components which include: skills development, livelihood support and institutional support. Culture and Creative Industries fall under skills development component. The recommended investment options include fashion and design, clay modeling/pottery, weaving and embroidery, video-audio editing, leather works and computer use and applications. The programme provides a rolling fund that youths can invest in the priority enterprises which include culture and creative industries.
A total of 47 projects under culture and creative industries with a total of 568 young people in the following projects: art and crafts making, music, dance and drama, brass band, pottery and mobile disco were funded.
1,000,000 out of which 100,000 was the investment towards culture and creative industry enterprises
Name of partner | Type of entity |
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District Local Governments
| Public Sector
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Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
| Public Sector
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National Youth Council
| Public Sector
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In 2019, Cabinet directed that the programme should support investments in Music and Film/Creative Industries.