Deadline: Every 25th of the months running January – May 2022
Age: 16 – 35 years
About Feminature
Feminature Uganda is a women and youth focused, not-for-profit, non-partisan organization registered in 2016 to spearhead the socio-economic, political transformation of women and youth through initiatives that provide a platform of self-help for participatory advancement of households with women and youth making informed decisions geared towards their own transformation. Feminature looks forward to a community where women, youth and children enjoy equal and equitable rights and opportunities, regardless of their religious profession, race, social-economic standing or sexual orientation. Feminature Uganda is located at Plot 64-66 Arua Avenue P.O Box 999, Arua district.
Feminature Uganda works along four major thematic components: a) Human Rights, Governance; b) Education, Skills and Livelihood development; c) Sexual Reproductive Health and Environment Rights, and d) Policy, Social Research and Advocacy. Our work pivots around rights advocacy and empowerment.
About the Project.
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.
Who we are looking for
Feminature Uganda is inviting applications from youth, young women and girls, including teenage mothers between the age of 16 and 30. The prospective applicant can be a beginner or an already established business person, or any young person who is not sure of the enterprise they want to develop.
Duration of Training
There will be a total of 20 cohorts of 25 youth per cohort. There will be at least 4 SKY Cohorts per month. The Cohorts will run between February and June 2022. The dates for each Cohort will be communicated in due course.
| Training schedule | ||
| Cohort (100 participants per month) | Period | Number of Participants |
| Cohort No. | ||
| Cohort 1 | February 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 2 | February 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 3 | February 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 4 | February 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 5 | March 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 6 | March 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 7 | March 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 8 | March 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 9 | April 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 10 | April 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 11 | April 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 12 | April 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 13 | May 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 14 | May 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 15 | May 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 16 | May 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 17 | June 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 18 | June 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 19 | June 2022 | 25 |
| Cohort 20 | June 2022 | 25 |
| Report Compilation | August – September 2022 | 500 |
Seed Funding & Awards
Participants with innovative ideas will be assessed and be given a chance to win Small Seed Funding to operationalize their ideas. A total of 10 ideas will receive funding. These ideas can be submitted either as an individual or group.
Upon successful completion of the training, participants will be awarded certificates.
How you will benefit
- One-on-one practical training, coaching and mentorship by top-notch highly qualified entrepreneurship trainers
- One year free entrepreneurship mentorship
- Invitations to entrepreneurship events
- Linkages to financing for innovative ideas
- An opportunity to pitch a funded innovative idea
- Wider network of entrepreneurs
- Certificate upon successful completion
Application Procedure:
Interested individuals fill out the expression of interest form by going to the Feminature office located in the Christ the King Cafeteria Building, Room 32, P.O BOX 999 Arua city and fill the registration form before the 25th of each month to qualify for the training in the next month. Our offices shall be operation between 8:00 – 5:00pm Monday to Friday. For details about the project, please call Julius on 0782611198 and for help with expression of interest call our office number 0200-905601.
Managing finance
Muwanguzi, what do you mean?
Am really interested and happy for feminature for there programs and services but one more concerne is deliance in feedback. like some of us applied for call for mendors but up to now no feedback no notification. So, it’s not good at all
Dear Richard, it is unfortunate that you have not received any response. However, we sent out a feedback with the status of your application to mentor last year. Please check your emails from November last year both inbox and spam.