Training in poultry production and backyard gardening for 50 youth and women GBV survivors in Kyangwali Refugee settlement

Uganda Change Agent Association (UCAA) is implementing the Enhancing Multi-sectoral Protection, Opportunities, and Women’s Empowerment and Resilience in Kyangwali-EMPOWER WOMEN PROJECT.

We conducted a hands-on training in poultry production and backyard gardening for 50 youth and women GBV survivors in Kyangwali Refugee settlement, at Kavule Learning Centre.

Out of the 50 GBV Survivors trained, 30 women with prior exposure to VSLA groups were further trained on how to utilize the loans into starting up IGAs.

The sessions focused on poultry management, housing, disease control, and household vegetable production using locally available resources. A key innovation: Black Soldier Fly larvae was introduced as an alternative protein source in poultry feed. This approach enables participants to recycle organic waste into nutrient-rich feed, significantly reducing production costs while improving bird growth and egg yield, thereby promoting environmentally sustainable and climate-smart agriculture.

The intervention contributes to GBV response among these aimed at strengthening household income, improving nutrition, and supporting psychosocial recovery. As well as enhancing survivors’ economic independence, restoring self-reliance, and reducing vulnerability to negative coping mechanisms.

Early feedback from participants indicated increased confidence, strengthened peer support networks, and readiness to initiate small-scale production at household level. UCAA will provide continued mentorship, technical follow-up, and linkage to community-based support structures to ensure adoption, scale-up, and long-term resilience of the livelihood activities

@EMPOWER Women Project; www.ucaa.or.ug/

@ FHN: feministhumanitariannetwork.org/

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