As part of the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP), the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Ltd. has assisted in the skilling of young people from families affected by the project.
Through self-employment or obtaining paid work, these vocational skills are meant to increase the ability of members of these impacted households to generate income and strengthen their resilience that may emerge following displacement.
In the districts of Hoima, Kakumiro, Kikuube, Kyankwanzi, and Mubende, 249 of the 754 students who graduate from impacted homes are female.
They attended Millennium Business School in the Hoima district, Buhimba Technical Institute in Kikuube, St. Simon Peter’s Vocational Institute in Hoima, and St. Peters Vocational Training Institute in Mubende.
The students have finished a month-long internship and three months of vocational training.
Along the whole Pipeline course, 1,020 young people from households impacted by the project have received training.
These have acquired expertise in the fields of electrical installations, hairdressing, motor vehicle and motorcycle mechanics, welding, building and construction, carpentry and joinery, and tailoring and clothing design.
To begin their path to employment, the young people will get beginning kits tailored to their particular occupational curricula.
This project is a component of the company’s livelihood restoration program, which aims to empower impacted households by restoring, transitioning, and improving their livelihoods through the utilization of post-resettlement household resources.
The Livelihood Restoration Program’s goal is to give project participants whose livelihoods or income levels have been negatively impacted the chance to enhance, or at the very least recover, their production levels, ways of earning revenue, and living standards.
As soon as the impacted households leave their land, transitional help is given to them as a short-term strategy to support their food security in the form of dry rations or food baskets throughout the first six to twelve months of livelihood restoration.
This project is a component of the company’s livelihood restoration program, which aims to empower impacted households by restoring, transitioning, and improving their livelihoods through the utilization of post-resettlement household resources.
The Livelihood Restoration Program’s goal is to give project participants whose livelihoods or income levels have been negatively impacted the chance to enhance, or at the very least recover, their production levels, ways of earning revenue, and living standards.
As soon as the impacted households leave their land, transitional help is given to them as a short-term strategy to support their food security in the form of dry rations or food baskets throughout the first six to twelve months of livelihood restoration.
Food baskets are currently being distributed to 1949/2257 qualified homes that were severely affected.
The initiative enrolls impacted households in enterprise development, agricultural enhancement programs, and vocational training for qualified households in order to provide them with food security and income in the second phase.
Across the 10 districts, 2938 out of 3400 eligible households have received assistance for increasing agricultural productivity thus far.
This type of assistance involves providing project participants with hands-on, practical training to improve their understanding of improved technology, agricultural production techniques, and animal husbandry procedures.
Starter packs containing improved technologies, such as improved maize, bean, banana, cassava, and coffee seeds or seedlings, as well as pasture for cattle that are also tolerant of water stress environments, have somewhat shorter growing cycles, and are disease-resistant, are also provided to those affected by the project.
In an effort to create enduring partnerships that will support the progress made thus far, these project-affected households are also being connected to nearby vendors of these technology, machinery, and produce purchasers.
