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Enable participants acquire key competencies below:
Enable participants acquire entreprenuerships knowledge and skills, business planning, business accounting, record keeping and monitoring skills,
Enable participants acquire knowledge and skills to carry out market survey locally and externally including IT computer market survey and marketing skills to sale produce locally and also export goods and services,
Enable participants acquire negotiation and marketing skills for their good and services,
Enable participants establish a market survey data bank and required products,
Enable participants practically produce goods and services based on acquired technical skills to produce and meet identified market demands,
Enable participants start and manage their own identified income generation project under mentorship for one year,
Enable participants keep proper records, monitor and evaluate project performance
Assessment:
Participants will be routinely assessed through assignments given to each participant to carry practical work requiring each to produce a commodity, e.g, designing and making a dress, weaving a mat, basket or a service, e.g installing computer hardware leading to final practical final product
Tuition:
Participants will be sponsored by external donors according to each donor requirements in case UCBHCA wins advertised grant opportunity. But in case UCBHCA does not win a grant participants will be required to pay a small fee depending on their selected enterprise. However UCBHCA will endeavor to identify donors to support highly needy/orphans participants tuition.

Welfare:
Welfare payment is required to cater for transport and accommodate participants to be able to attend training regularly. But if participant is near he/she will come from home.
Graduation and certification:
Candidates to graduate will be continuously assessed through given monthly practical assignments which will be followed by final exams at the end to complete and pass their practical exams to graduate. Each participant will be given a certificate of attendance at end..
Job titles at completion of study:
Successful participants shall graduate as either; Organic Farmers, Fish Farmers, Cooks, Nutritionists, Bakers, Computer Technicians, T.V and Radio mechanics, Designers & Tailors, Weavers, Hair Dressers, Beauticians, Decorators, Designers, Knitters, Soap Makers, Builders, Electricians, Painters & Decorators, Carpenters and Photographers.
Employment prospects:
On completion of the study, each participant shall start a self-business employment project which will be supported with a start up grant of either a specific grant support/tools to enable each participant to start and take off being mentored by UCBHCA team for one year. If UCBHCA wins a grant to sponsor students. After which participants shall continue to run own projects to get money and reinvest the money to continue the project on his/her own monitored by UCBHCA.
N.B: If UCBHCA does not win any grant participants will be required to pay for their training according to selected trades.
Duration of the Program:
Each course study will last according to its timeframe but will range between one month, two, six and up to 12 months including mentorship.

Uganda Community
Based Health Care
Association
(UCBHCA)

Offices are located on Berkeley Road,
Entebbe opposite NARO Offices
P.O Box 7881, Kampala, Uganda
Tel: +256 (0) 414 661588/ +256 772 402 740 /
+256 784 982 321
Email: ucbhca20@gmail.com,
www.ucbhca.org

Background to UCBHCA
Uganda Community Based Health Care Association (UCBHCA) is a nonprofit Umbrella organization for Community Based nonprofit Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs/CBOs) implementing Primary health Care using Community Based Health Care Approach at Community level in Uganda. It was formed in April 1986 and registered under the NGO board as a nonprofit nongovernmental organization to operate in all districts in Uganda.
Vision: To improve the quality of life of the people.
Mission: To promote and coordinate sustainable community based health care and Community development initiatives through gender responsive planning and community participation and empowerment.
Organization Culture: People First Gender equality is a priority
Core Values: Transparency, Accountability, Integrity, Honest, Self respect and Respect for others for sustainable health and development.
Introduction:
Through its long experience in training facilitators and trainers in social economic development, the management of UCBHCA therefore initiated the ‘Entrepreneurship Skill Development Project’ (ESD) project is a non-formal education and training intervention for both the Youth out of school and Adults. It is aimed at empowering people with skills to identify viable projects and start self employment through generating income to reduce poverty to meet their needs.

Problem statement:
Basing on the economic outcry in Uganda, the management of UCBHCA observed that while significant efforts had been made to enable be healthy through Primary Health Care programs and life skills, they were still vulnerable to poverty and not economically self reliant. They needed economic empowerment. Therefore there was need for an intervention that would empower the people including youth and adults with entrepreneurship skills to earn income not only to finance their treatment bills but also to feed nutritiously to be healthy, dress properly, meet health bills whenever needed and also meet education fees for their children and meet other needs.
This is in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are focused on poverty eradication to reduce vulnerabilities of the poor, including women, youth boys and girls, unemployed persons with Disabilities, Orphans, indigenous people, older people and local Communities.
Target Group: This project is targeted at Youth aged 15 – 35 years out of school, school drop-outs and non-schooled Youth including Girls and boys who never went to school including those with disabilities and Orphans and adults.
Goal: To build entrepreneurship capacity among youth and adults for sustainable development .

General Objectives:
i) To equip youth and adults with entrepreneurship skills,
ii) To enable youth and adults identify, initiate and manage and sustain viable business,
iii) To enable youth and adults monitor and evaluate their business performance,
Methodology and design:
The courses are non-formal which are taught practical courses with selected basic theory. This is intended to give out put based approach giving immediate practical results with product outputs at end. The mode of training is based on Instructions with practical work through hands on which require each participant to practically carry out key set tasks to produce goods or services at the end. Each participant will produce products at the end of the training which will be assessed and evaluated to give participants term pass marks followed by final practical exams at end. At the beginning of this course each participant will start with entrepreneurship skills training for three weeks to enable participants acquire creative thinking, problem solving and creative value, recognizing business opportunities, decision making, local market survey and IT market survey, negotiation skills, business accounting and record keeping after which he/she will proceed with his/her own selected course choice which will based on its curriculum, duration and mentorship.
The will also enable participants acquire key competences below;
Enable participants acquire entrepreneurships knowledge and skills, business planning, business accounting, record keeping and monitoring skills,
Enable participants acquire knowledge and skills to carry out market survey locally and externally including IT computer market survey and marketing skills to sale produce locally and also export goods and services,
Enable participants acquire negotiation and marketing skills for their good and services,
Enable participants establish a market survey data bank and required products,
Enable participants practically produce goods and services based on acquired technical skills to produce and meet identified market demands,
Enable participants start and manage their own identified income generation project under mentorship for one year,
Enable participants keep proper records, monitor and evaluate project performance