PROSPECTS – Improving Prospects for Host Communities and Forcibly Displaced Persons in Uganda (Opportunity Fund Phase 2)

PROSPECTS is a partnership and a multi-year programme financed by the Government of the Netherlands and brings together the IFC, ILO, UNICEF, UNHCR and the World Bank to address crucial and emerging challenges of protracted displacement, in close coordination with the governments of the hosting countries. The Partnership focuses on four areas of intervention that enable forcibly displaced persons to overcome their specific vulnerabilities and host communities to pursue their own development efforts in transformed environments. These are: education and learning; employment; protection; and critical infrastructure.   Opportunity Fund was introduced as an instrument to strengthen closer cooperation between the PROSPECTS Partners at country, regional or global levels in Phase 1 of PROSPECTS. The Netherlands kept the same instrument in Phase 2 to scale-up projects that have proven successful but also support innovative pilots testing new programming and policy approaches. As a result of this process, ILO has become part of various Opportunity Fund projects at country, regional (on durable solutions) and global levels.   This country project is composed of three components. First, "Strengthening Inclusive Protection Systems for Refugees and Host Communities" aims to ensure that refugees and host communities’ benefit from government and community structures leading the delivery of protection and social protection services across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. The project also seeks to improve the self-reliance of refugees and host communities through linkages between protection, social protection interventions and economic inclusion programs. Secondly, "Improving socio-economic inclusion by strengthening TVET, delivering market-relevant skills and digital livelihoods for refugees and host communities in Uganda" aims to to bridge critical livelihood gaps for refugees and host communities, especially youth and vulnerable populations, by enhancing access to market-relevant digital skills and 21st-century skilling through formal and non-formal TVET and leveraging digital technologies and private sector partnerships to strengthen pathways from learning to earning, boost job placement and entrepreneurship rates, improve income prospects, and enhance refugees’ self-reliance and dignity. And thirdly, "Sustainable Youth Employment Solutions in Agriculture Value Chains" aims to create sustainable youth employment in agriculture to increase agricultural productivity, production and marketable volumes for self-reliance among the refugee and host communities. The project will also support efforts to integrate and link refugees and host communities that will have enhanced livelihoods, stemming from the skilling, agriculture employment creation, and enterprise development to the current program under the National Social Security Fund, whilst progressively engaging to have social security that is more aligned to international social security standards.

Project symbol

UGA/25/50/NLD

Admin unit

CO-Dar es Salaam

Start date

01/12/2025

End date

31/12/2027

Total allocation

5594059

Total expenditure

Status

Active

136395

Development Partners

Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Country/Countries

Uganda

Outcomes

Outcome 7: Universal social protection
Outcome 3: Full and productive employment for just transitions
Outcome 6: Protection at work for all
Output 9.5. Improved coherence in support and action to promote inclusive, peaceful, stable and resilient societies through decent work and social justice in contexts of crisis, post-crisis and fragility
Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises for inclusive growth and decent work