The Skilling Youth for Increased Employability (SKY) implemented by Feminature Uganda with support from the Aga Khan Foundation funded by the European Commission, under pillar 3 of the Covid-19 Response Program.
The COVID-19 response project is a 30 – month project that is geared towards strengthening existing health responses and increase awareness of prevention strategies and support mechanisms, while also working to minimize the mental health and socio-economic impacts of the crisis. The project shall be implemented in the districts of Arua and Kampala with interventions across 2 broad pillars; the SKY Project falls under Pillar 3. Pillar 3 of the project shall work through local youth focused private sector partners collaborated with to build employability, social entrepreneurship, and innovation skills among youth, particularly young women. The project includes providing rapid response funds to local district based CSOs to meet identified community needs and disseminating messaging on prevention, protection, and stories of hope to vulnerable groups to respond to the disproportionate effect of the pandemic on youth, including increased mental health needs and sexual and gender-based violence (GBV) and decreased income-earning opportunities, livelihoods skills training and SGBV response services.
The project is aimed at improving the financial knowledge and economic skills for vulnerable young, out of school mothers and teenage fathers in Arua district and surrounding communities. The project shall employ community enterprise identification, development and management to offer market-driven training for young mothers and fathers to take back control of their lives with the necessary skills and knowledge to encourage economic dependence, the development of this project is hinged on situational facts and statistics that reflect the lamentable plight of young mothers and fathers particularly in the face of and amidst the ravaging and scavenging COVID-19 pandemic.
The SKY Project therefore wishes to pre-qualify competent and experienced service providers for the year 2022. Details on how to apply are in this Call for Prequalification Document. https://feminature.org/sample/download/call-for-pre-qualification-of-service-providers/
DEADLINE: 13 JAN 2022 at 5:00pm E.A.T
