UYONET has extended the deadline for receiving applications for Call for EoI to lead Capacity Needs Assessment, Training and Mentorship for Youth Organisations to Tuesday 19th February 2019. Also important to note is that the Consultancy will benefit 25 member organisatons of UYONET loacted within the districts of Arua, Pakwach, Gulu, Abim, Rukungiri, Bushenyi, Lamwo, Kisoro, Kampala, Nwoya, Mbarara, Wakiso, Kayunga, Jinja and Mbale.

Uganda Youth Network (UYONET) looking for a consultant to lead in improving leadership and governance of youth CSO’s as strong institutions that pursue the youth agenda. The consultant will conduct a capacity needs assessment to critically analyze capacity gaps of UYONET member organizations, review existing training modules and tailor them to suit capacity development needs of organizations at different levels of growth, and conduct a tailored capacity building training for the selected youth organizations.

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Agency for Development of Young Farmers in Uganda (ADYOFU) is a youthfounded and youth-led non-governmental and non-for-profit youth organization founded in 2010 to empower young people to be productive in the society.

ADYOFU intends to pre-qualify service providers for the supply of various categories of goods and services to support its Youth Programme under four project components; Agriculture (CCP), Community Managed Microfinance (YMS), Governance (PADEG), Technical Vocational Education & Training (TVET).

This notice therefore invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for procurement of goods and services (attached as APPENDIX B) required during the year 2019.

Pre-qualification will be conducted in accordance with the ADYOFU Procurement Policy & Reference Manual (Revised 2018) which is in line with the Government of Uganda Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Act (PPDA).

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Ahmed Menya receives equipment on behalf of Integrated Community Action for Development (ICAD) from UYONET's Executive Director, Mr. Otim Ronald and Chairman Board of Directors, Mr. Munyangabo Joseph.

UYONET through its Sexual Reproductive Health Programme dubbed ‘A healthy Living for A Health Young Generation’ supported by Amplify Change, handed over ICT facilitating gadgets that included; Computers, Hard Drives and Documentation Cameras to member implementing partners that included; Tua Uganda (Nwoya District), Vision Drama Actors (Kasese District), Kawempe Youth Centre (Kampala District), Integrated Community Action for Development (Wakiso District), Action for Youth Development (Rubirizi District) and Kampala Youth Advocacy Network (National Level).

The event was held on 11th Jan 2019, at Plot 55A Kimera Road, UYONET premises. The handover ceremony was presided over by the Chairman Board of Directors.

‘A healthy Living for A Health Young Generation’ is a two year programme that seeks to empower young people to enable them make informed choices, advocate, demand and fulfill their sexual reproductive health rights in the district of Kasese, Rubirizi, Kampala, Wakiso, Nwoya and Buikwe districts.

In 2014, Uganda Youth Network with support from the Democratic Governance Facility initiated a program dubbed The leadership Academy; a multi-faceted and general change leadership training and mentoring program intended to promote more pluralistic, representative and accountable governance in Uganda through training and grooming a set of transformative leaders.

The Leadership Academy is a non-academic but certified program with a wide range of leadership/political training programs to young people with a mission “to promote transformative leaders through purposeful training.” The programme envisions “A center of excellence dedicated to nurturing transformative leadership.”

It’s against this background that Uganda Youth Network is looking for a qualified, skilled and professional person/firm to develop a story-telling documentary on the impact of the Leadership Academy 2018/19 in the lives of the beneficiaries in the four regions of Uganda in the period between January and March 2019.

The leadership academy is delivered on 6 broad study topics in the curriculum in form of tiers; Tier 1: Leadership Development for Transformation, Tier 2: Essential Leadership Tool Kit and, Tier 3: Leadership in Action. Tier 1 has been concluded in all the four project regions.

Deliverables;
There are 5 key deliverables under this assignment;

1. A 20 minutes audio visual documentary that will tell a comprehensive and convincing stories of change from the beneficiaries
2. Deliver 10 copies of a documentary on the DVD
3. One pager profile of each of the respondents
4. A DVD of Professional pictures for TLA trainings and graduation for UYONET’s promotional work and,
5. A picture story-book of Professional pictures for TLA trainings and graduation for UYONET’s promotional work.

Ugandan Youth pose for a group photo before the Start Off the East African Caravan.

The East African Youth Caravan
The East African Youth Caravan was an initiative that was organized by Uganda Youth Network, Action Aid Uganda, Westminster Foundation and Faraja Africa Foundation. The Caravan started with the Prime Minister of the republic of Uganda Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda flagging off the team before they set off to Arusha for the East African Youth Parliament.In his speech, the Hon. Minister congratulated the teams for being able to organize such an event and encouraged youth to do more of the same, “this kind of activism is healthy and youth should keep it up”. He noted that he was very happy that young people are on the frontline to see that Africa regain its dignity and emphasized that It is the role of young people to undo what the colonialists did, The Hon. Minister thanked the partners for being foresighted and for being advocates for better East African integration. The Hon. Minister concluded his speech by affirming that the young people have the support of President Yoweri Kaguta Museven and confirmed to the team that African Charter for Elections and Governance will be ratified. With these remarks he wished the caravan a safe journey and he requested the team to come back and report.

The youth of East African youth caravan led by a team of young people from Uganda visited the East African headquarters where they had a meeting with the Head of Operations Mr. David Onen. During this meeting, the youth were given highlights on the processes of the East African Community Reintegration as they prepared the young people for the East African Youth Parliament that took place on the 17th November 2018.
At the East African Youth Parliament, the youth presented their petition to the Speaker of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). The Chairperson of the National Youth Council of Uganda Ms. Lilian Aber who was the Speaker of the day presented the petition.

Denis Namara,a member of EALA from Uganda addressing participants, left is Stella Hagara at the recent second edition of the EAC Youth Summit (YouLead 2018) held at the MS Training Center for Development Cooperation in Arumeru, Tanzania.(Credit: Eddie Ssejjoba).

The growing commercialization of politics in the East African Community (EAC) is hindering full participation of youth in elective politics both at the national and regional level, Uganda youth leaders have observed.

Jeremiah Amukidosi Etima, speaking on behalf of the Uganda Youth Network at the recent second edition of the EAC Youth Summit (YouLead 2018) held at the MS Training Center for Development Cooperation in Arumeru, Tanzania stated that like in Uganda and elsewhere in the region, candidates use huge sums of money in order to win elections, which he said leaves out the majority of the youth who do not have the cash to finance their campaigns.

He appealed to the EAC secretariat, the organizers of the Summit in conjunction with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) to make policies that restrict use of money in elective positions to create chances for youth who constitute the majority, with the potential to win and take up leadership positions at national and regional level.

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UYONET with funding from DGF is implementing a three year project dubbed “strengthening the youth sector to engage in democratic and decision making processes”. The project aims at contributing towards building a well-coordinated, effective and responsive youth sector and envisages a connected youth movement that engages as active agents of change in the governance processes.

As part of interventions contributing to its strategic plan and the National Youth Manifesto UYONET is implementing a youth to youth grant aimed at sub-contracting UYONET member organizations whose local advocacy initiatives are aligned to the UYONET strategic plan and the national youth manifesto. The 10 successful member applicants for this initiative will also benefit from capacity enhancement in grants management.

In this call for expression of interest, UYONET is seeking applications from suitably qualified individuals or institutions to verify the facts presented in the partner grant application forms assessed by the 10 member organisations during the evaluation process to ensure that we only sub-grant to members with the capacity to manage the grant.

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