Promotion of rights to sustainable Livelihoods
A sustainable livelihood enables individuals or communities to meet their current needs while ensuring the long-term well-being of future generations. It involves maintaining or enhancing capabilities and assets, coping with stresses and shocks, and avoiding harm to the natural resource base. Sustainable livelihoods are crucial for poverty reduction and development, emphasizing a holistic, people-centered approach that builds on existing strengths and promotes environmental and social well-being.
To realize this crucial aspiration, UCAA wants to see that the communities improve on their agricultural production and productivity so as to enhance food and nutrition security and household incomes.
The economic and entrepreneurial capacity of the vulnerable youth, women and men enhanced by exposing them to the culture of income generation, value addition, savings, cooperating, food storage management systems and collective marketing.
Uganda largely depends on rain-fed agriculture. This makes rural livelihoods, food security, agricultural production, and productivity highly vulnerable to weather extremes. Therefore, there is need to promote climate change adaptation strategies that enhance resilient, productive, and sustainable agricultural systems.
Specific objectives: To contribute towards livelihood enhancement through participation and promotion of viable livelihoods activities for self-reliance and sustainable development of the most vulnerable communities.
Expected results
- Enhanced food and nutrition security at household level.
- Enhanced agriculture as a business.
- Capacity enhancement of vulnerable youth and women linked to earning incomes.
- Improved income generation opportunities for vulnerable women, men and youth groups.
- Established village savings and loans associations (VSLAs) for women and youth groups.
- Established SACCOs and producer cooperatives at village, sub-county and district levels.
- Improved access to finance, advisory services and inputs.
- Establish producer and marketing cooperatives societies at district and national levels
- Established linkages of value-chains and markets in place for increased income.
- Sustainable climate-change adaptation and climate-friendly agriculture within households
