CPAR Uganda Ltd
nonprofit URSB registration 102332
Tag: Youth
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Children who have gone to school are not useless
“Those children who have gone to school are not useless. This is because they come back with good views. They come back with good views which help the community. They will work with the LC I councils; they are in churches; they help us in farming. You will find they have papers which can help…
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Life is just like a menu from a hotel
“Sometimes, when I look back, I can only see thousands of tears which I poured during my struggle to get myself where I am today. It only takes determination, sacrifice and real, real commitment for someone to breakout from the silence of a village like Ocelakur. One thing I have discovered is that, life is just like a menu from…
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The development assistance that Pallisa needs
We would welcome 100 percent interventions that come to Pallisa to do empirical research in Pallisa for Pallisa. The doctor will assess you and will send you to the lab to conduct that test to know what he is treating. For us in Pallisa we are treating something we don’t know. Is that allowed, to…
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Involve youth in Covid-19 vaccination drive
My father inspired me to go for coronavirus vaccination. At first, I was scared because some people kept saying the vaccine could kill you. And also listening to complaints people had about it. A lady in a WhatsApp group, for example, shared her experience in the hospital when her mother was vaccinated and she said…
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Mass exploitation of youth who are categorized “unemployed”
Most people in Uganda, even our parents inclusive, only think having a salaried job is the only relevant thing to have after finishing school. I give myself as an example. After school, I used to help my dad with legal advice for making decisions in his company, but I wasn’t even appreciated. He could ask…
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Launch of Two-year research and advocacy project in Lango and Teso
CPAR Uganda, Lira University and University of East Anglia, UK, are pleased to announce the inception of our research and advocacy project: “Challenging Categories: Educated Unemployed Youth as Institutional Innovators in Rural Uganda,” funded by the British Academy. Dr. Ben Jones giving the overview of the project during the team workshop The project leaders are…
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Youth in Agriculture for Food Security – Cattle Fattening
We are excited that some of the innovators participating in our “Mentoring young adults into innovators against poverty” project have specific intentions to engage in agri-business throughout a value chain. One of them is Isagara, who is originally from Kijunjubwa Village in Masindi District, is married in Acholi and is a resident of Pece Vangard…
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Lesson for Success #06: Emotional Intelligence and Maturity
The Basoga have a saying that if a person has bigger genitals than yours, do not go sulking that ‘it is a hydrocele’. Emotional intelligence is the competency of understanding and mastering your own emotions and recognizing the emotions of others in a way that instils: Confidence Motivates Inspires Picture credit: Norah Owaraga Emotional intelligence…
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Lesson for Success #05: Creativity
During our wedding 10 years ago, a mysterious agent gave us a little but very uniquely designed tea pot. It’s the present we keep talking about. The very sight of it made us take more and more tea. Such creativity – the competency of conceiving and selecting innovative strategies and ideas for your organization –…
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Lesson for Success #04: Communication and Presentation
During one of the stiffest student contexts at MIT, a young innovator from Makerere made such a passionate pitch that the entire room turned to see what was going on. He presented like there was no tomorrow. He won the small innovation prize! Similarly, during one of the interviews I participated in some months back,…
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