AfrII team (standing) takes youth through importance of savings for financial growth during a financial literacy training in Apac district

A total of 455 youths from the districts of Lira, Kole and Apac in Northern Uganda have benefitted from AfrII’s Youth Leadership in Agriculture (YLA) Project that targets youth involvement in agribusiness ventures to increase their incomes. Under their different youth groups, these have been linked to financial access, availed financial literacy and trained on entrepreneurship and business management, among others.
They have been supported to enrich their saving culture, and linked to financial institutions to access services like credit and loans to ably support their agribusinesses.
More youths are to benefit from the different lined up activities under the YLA project.

Youths engaged in practical group work after one of the Financial training sessions

Overall, YLA targets 4,710 youth to increase their incomes through participation in an inclusive Fresh Cassava Root (FCR) supply model as cassava producers/entrepreneurs and employees in cassava production and processing. The Project is supporting two cassava processing factories using the flash drier technology to build an out grower-Nucleus Farm FCR supply model to enable them meet their FCR annual requirement of 7,200 Metric Tons (MT).

The YLA Project is implemented in partnership with Chemonics International.