GOAL has been working in Uganda since 1979. With an operating budget of €6.8M in 2021, 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 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