GOAL has been working in Uganda since 1979. With a programme expenditure of €8M in 2022, more than 120 staff work across six office locations. Together they deliver humanitarian and sustainable development programmes that build community resilience and support socio-economic growth. Within this, there is an active focus on health, WASH and agricultural livelihoods.
Looking to the future, GOAL is committed to facing the challenge of climate change and to safeguarding the health and economic security of local communities.
Our achievements
- Completed the technical design of rural water systems in Uganda (as part of GOAL's Water-Share Ireland programme) which has included increased local capability to assess handpump boreholes using camera technologies, strengthened systems of governance through a new Ugandan policy of in-borehole camera survey and classification and identification of an area for development of a piped water system for 10,000 people, a first phase of an overall target to supply up to 80,000 people
- Over the past five years GOAL has supported 36k approx. people in rural Northern Uganda to access improved agricultural inputs and markets, access formal financial services and products, access market-relevant skills and increase their digital and business literacy
- Facilitated the training of 24,000 youth by DYNAMIC Peer Educators
- Facilitated the access of 25,000 youth to markets and core skills
- Linked 25,000 youth to informal financial services
- Reached 50,000 young people with Covid-19 messages
Our story in numbers
1979
GOAL Uganda commences
€8M
Programme expenditure in 2022
120
Staff across six offices
234,000
People reached in 2022
Markets for Youth
GOAL is partnering with the Mastercard Foundation to help 300,000 young Ugandans, aged 16-35, access dignified and fulfilling employment over the next five years. 30,000 refugees and 15,000 young people living with disabilities are set to benefit from the programme.
Uganda has one of the youngest populations in the world with more than 75% of people below the age of 30. The country has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Sub-Saharan Africa at 13.3%.
With employment opportunities limited, finding work and a pathway out of poverty is a huge challenge.
Young Africa Works in Uganda is focused on finding solutions to the youth employment challenge and reducing poverty in Uganda using a markets system approach.