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UCU (UGA) -NLA/Gimlekollen - KwaZulu Natal (Za)

To strengthen teaching and research capacity at Makerere University Business School (MUBS), with a view of informing and influencing Ugandan national policy formulation and review in the area of energy economics and governance.

Vocational training to develop entrepreneurial skills and foster business development and entreneurship within the renewable energy value chain.

The projects aims to build capacity in design thinking and practical design tools amongst entrepreneurs, start-ups and established SMEs in Uganda, consequently to transform ideas and concepts into viable products and services contributing to economic development and job creation.

The project will contribute to eradicating child labour in Uganda, protecting children in over 12,000 families. The project will focus on two regions of Uganda where child labour is very common. 1. Busoga sub-region (Jinja, Bugiri, Kaliro and Iganga) has the highest rate of child labour in the country, with 38% of children in work, and agriculture the main sector (UNICEF’s Child Poverty report 2019), particularly in sugarcane and rice production, as children are a source of cheap labour with the nature of the work extremely hazardous. 2. Central region, specifically Greater Kampala Metropolitan area. Older children migrate from the rural areas to seek paid employment in a number of informal sector activities including petty trading, domestic work, trading, hawking, bar and restaurant work, and prostitution; 88.8% of working children in Kampala are involved in hazardous work, 53.4% are paid child labourers (street vendors, porters, scrap collectors) (National Labour Force and Child Activity Report, 2012). In both areas, poverty is one of the main drivers of child labour. This situation has worsened with the outbreak of COVID-19 due to the strong measures undertaken by the Government of Uganda including lockdown of the economy to control the spread of the virus. Poor understanding of child rights and the legal framework which could protect them amongst both rights holders and duty bearers is a further barrier to sustained change. The project will enable over 12,000 families to be more resilient in the face of recruitment to child labour though increasing understanding on preventing and combating child labour - with community taskforces, sensitised duty bearers, and awareness-raising in the media. It will strengthen social protection of targeted families, improving incomes and access to skills, establish public/private partnerships including a child-free zone in UMA Industrial Park; thus improving the implementation of ILO conventions on child labour.

An agriculture project within the cassava value chain, located in the Agogo district in Northern Uganda, targeting 3500 young women and men, with at least 70% of them being women.

The Project’s expected effect(s) on society is to enhance the safety and security of most at risk human rights defenders in Uganda.

The planned effect on public health is: To contribute to the reduction of mortality and morbidity related to the current Sudan ebolavirus outbreak in Uganda and to prevent the spread of the outbreak to other provinces of the country, as well as to neighbouring countries with minimum disruption of social and health systems (Impact). The planned effects (Outcome) for the target group of the Project are: • To strengthen coordination, leadership, and resource tracking at national and sub-national levels • To strengthen laboratory diagnosis for Sudan ebolavirus. • To deploy Emergency EVD logistics and supplies in a timely manner.

Norad will support financing of KAM Group and Westgass's feasibility studies to investigate the potential to utilise excess hydropower for production of clean hydrogen to b used in the production of fertiliser, with a pilot in Northern Uganda. The studies will involve techno-economic assessments, an environmental and social impact assessment, legal an regulatory processes and engagement with relevant authorities, academia, civil society and vendors / suppliers.

Support to academic project.