{"id":9868,"date":"2023-09-14T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rfpjuganda.org\/?page_id=9868"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:23:45","slug":"past","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rfpjuganda.org\/?page_id=9868","title":{"rendered":"Past Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"9868\" class=\"elementor elementor-9868\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-799fea81 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"799fea81\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1463baf4 column-style-top\" data-id=\"1463baf4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-398f52c0 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"398f52c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Capacity Building for Youth-led Groups and Associations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since 2018, RFPJ had been investing in skills development for vulnerable youths and women to enhance their capacities in business entrepreneurship, and market-oriented skills through offering work-based learning and enhancing their employability and graduation from vulnerability to social and economic resilience. The provision of livelihood skills to vulnerable youths provided an alternative to violence by offering youths opportunities to be financially self-sustaining and minimizing chances of social exclusion and conscription into acts of violence. Among the targeted and trained categories included ex-combatants, youth heading households, those infected or affected with HIV\/AIDS, the disabled, and other socially vulnerable persons in the districts of Kabarole, Ntoroko, Bundibugyo, Bunyangabu, and Kasese. Between 2018 and 2024, a total of 834 youth and women had benefited from RFPJ\u2019s skilling programs, and duly assessed and certified by the Directorate of Industrial Development (DIT).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Between May and September 2024, RFPJ with support from Enabel trained 152 youths in Group Formation, Group Dynamics, and the VSLA model. This 3-month training equipped youths with organizational skills and VSLA formation and management knowledge, aimed at improving their access to finance for business development and self-employment, and harnessing skills obtained before to enhance their graduation from vulnerability to self-sustenance.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>PROJECT TITLE: Enhanced livelihood skills of 135 urban youth and 90 vulnerable women in and around Fort Portal Tourism City through small-scale urban farming<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"align\":\"left\",\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">In 2022, with support from Enabel under the Skills Development Fund, RFPJ partnered with Bulhalho Foundation to offer urban farming skills to 225 (44 males &amp; 181 females) local farmers in rabbit farming, piggery, vegetable, mushroom, and watermelon growing in 12 Wards in Fort Portal City and 03 Sub-Counties in Kabarole District. The project strengthened the capacity of the beneficiaries in selected small-scale agricultural enterprises, enhanced their entrepreneurship skills, and supported them with agricultural inputs and tools to start small-scale agricultural enterprises for sustained livelihoods.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"align\":\"left\",\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">Overall, the project sought to enhance market-oriented skills among the beneficiaries through offering work-based learning and by extension, to enhance their employability and graduation from vulnerability to resilience. It extensively achieved the following result areas; improved market-relevant agro-enterprise skills; improved competitiveness in the agricultural trades undertaken by youth and women; and enhanced livelihood options as well as social and economic resilience of selected vulnerable youths and women within the target area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"align\":\"left\",\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">The Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT) assessed all successful project beneficiaries, and were certified as trained farmers in Fort Portal City and Kabarole district.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:gallery --><!-- wp:paragraph --><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>PROJECT TITLE: Amplifying the Participation of Women in Peacebuilding Processes in the Rwenzori Region<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">With support from the UN WOMEN under the Women\u2019s Peace &amp; Humanitarian Fund (WPHF), the Rwenzori Forum for Peace and Justice implemented the <em>\u201cAmplifying the Participation of Women in Peace Building Processes in the Rwenzori Region project\u201d<\/em>. The project aimed at improving women&#8217;s participation and influence in post-2021 general elections peacebuilding processes, and further amplifying their role in fronting governance issues that affect them and the society.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Over 800 grassroots women leaders and women&#8217;s organizations were directly targeted for purposes of building and strengthening their role in conflict prevention. Other stakeholders included formal and informal conflict prevention structures including cultural institutions, religious structures, electoral commission, political parties, and security agencies with the mandate to contribute to electoral conflict prevention. The project specifically focused on collaborating with formal and informal structures in conflict identification and prevention processes. Over a two year period, the project was implemented in the districts of Kasese, Kabarole, Kyenjojo, and Bundibugyo.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:image {\"id\":9965,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>PROJECT TITLE: Harnessing Youth\u2019s Potential for Peace in Uganda<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Between 2020 and 2021, RFPJ implemented \u201cThe Harnessing Youths\u2019 Potential for Peace in Uganda Project\u201d in Uganda\u2019s conflict-prone region of Rwenzori. In this project, RFPJ with funding from the UNDP under the auspices of the UN Secretary General\u2019s Emergency Peace Building Fund focused on addressing the prior exclusion of youth including girls and women from political and economic discourse in the country and the regional hotspots of Rwenzori and Central \/Buganda regions. Specifically in the Rwenzori region, the project aimed at addressing conflict factors through initiatives that enable greater engagement of young women and young men in decision\u2013making processes at national, district, and local levels, and initiatives that aim to restore trust between government [in particular security and low enforcement] entities and communities in regional hotspots.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:image {\"id\":9961,\"width\":\"838px\",\"height\":\"530px\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} --><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:paragraph --><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>PROJECT TITLE: Fostering Intra- and Inter-ethnic Dialogue and Reconciliation in the Rwenzori Region<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph {\"textColor\":\"black\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">From 2014 to 2021, RFPJ with funding support from the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) implemented a project to address intra- and inter-ethnic violence in the ethnically diverse Rwenzori region by promoting the respect for social and cultural rights for all and fostering citizen adoption of non-violent practices in resolving intra- and inter-ethnic conflicts. Linked to intra and inter-ethnic violence, the project promoted intra- and inter-ethnic reconciliation and bolstered the participation and representation of women and youth leaders from different cultural groupings in the fostering of this reconciliation in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:gallery --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capacity Building for Youth-led Groups and Associations Since 2018, RFPJ had been investing in skills development for vulnerable youths and women to enhance their capacities in business entrepreneurship, and market-oriented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9868","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"wpcf_dashboard":"<div class=\"woocommerce\"><div class=\"woocommerce-info\">Please log in first? <a class=\"wpneoShowLogin\" href=\"#\">Click here to login<\/a><\/div><div class=\"wpneo_login_form_div\" style=\"display: none;\"><form name=\"loginform\" id=\"loginform\" action=\"https:\/\/rfpjuganda.org\/wp-login.php\" method=\"post\"><p class=\"login-username\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_login\">Username or Email Address<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" autocomplete=\"username\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p><p class=\"login-password\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" autocomplete=\"current-password\" spellcheck=\"false\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p><p class=\"login-remember\"><label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label><\/p><p class=\"login-submit\">\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button button-primary\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"https:\/\/rfpjuganda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpages%2F9868\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p><\/form><\/div><\/div>","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10722,"url":"https:\/\/rfpjuganda.org\/?page_id=10722","url_meta":{"origin":9868,"position":0},"title":"Youth and Peacebuilding","author":"admin","date":"April 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"RFPJ invests in making youth agents of peace and nonviolence. 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