May 8, 2017 0 Comments

Reality Check, A Report on Employment, Entrepreneurship and Education in Uganda

On Tuesday, 2nd May 2017, The Centre for Development Alternatives (CDA) together with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung unveiled Reality Check; A report that challenges the dominant narrative on Uganda’s employment challenge and re-frames the debate. The quest for decent employment presents a major development concern today. It would be unimaginable for a country to achieve inclusive growth and sustained peace without providing decent

Written by Fred Warom

May 5, 2017 1 Comment

Practical Solutions to Fight Youth Unemployment

The rampant unemployment in the country cannot be ignored, it’s now a trend for youths to complain about the lack of jobs, what to do, how to start an income generating activity or to even acquire the necessary skill to find ways of uplifting their standards of living. According to recent findings by International Labor

Written by Davis Kawalya

April 21, 2017 0 Comments

Opinion : Should everyone be self-employed today.

Just like not everyone gets married, not everyone can be self employed- we all subconsciously know it but we tend to run away from that fact because we can, yes, we can. Last week, a friend of mine sent me a message asking for advice on how to be a better employee since he is

Written by Davis Kawalya

April 3, 2017 1 Comment

ADVISE : Graduates, How Employable Are You?

Waking up is the best thing next to eating, the thought of food can be overrated but so is the smell of it. Life has many things to offer apart from love, sadness, and happiness. Ours is a world of transformation, the age of diversity, socialism and multiple freedoms. As Graduates, everything you do is

Written by Kenn

March 28, 2017 5 Comments

Ways to Reduce Youth Unemployment

With the government setting up projects to research on youth unemployment. Research is just the start, there needs to be a focus on linking schools, universities and employers together. Another question that looms is how many affected young people are actually attempting to find work? Here are 10 key strategies to reduce youth unemployment: 1. Encourage

Written by Mukalazi Joseph

March 28, 2017 0 Comments

Youth unemployment in Uganda and the deadly relationship with illegal migration, human trafficking and modern slavery.

Uganda has been plagued by high numbers of cases of human trafficking of young people to the middle east. Due to a lack of stringent laws and minimum government intervention, it continues to be a large problem. Alex Taremwa explores the high youth unemployment rate in Uganda and how it feeds this dangerous form of