The concept of poverty has dominated the agenda of international development discourses for the last three decades. Undoubtedly, poverty has become a development challenge which is seen as a rich world of one billion fighting for a poor world of five billion people. Indeed, the world has been so passionate about bringing to an...

For years, Uganda has demonstrated commitment to gender equality through legal and constitutional means. This is in addition to various national policy and strategy documents. The most notable of these is the Women and Gender Development Policy of 2000and the National Strategy for Gender Development of 2008. Additionally, the National Gender Policy of 1997 was revised in 2007. Other...

Upon recognizing that youth lack employable skills that are relevant in the current job market, government in 2008 embarked on Business, Technical and Vocational Training (BTVET) to train and educate all individuals in need of relevant skills that would raise their productivity and income. The Uganda National Labour Force Survey (UNLFS) 2016/17 revealed that...