Scholarships: The YLP provides scholarships to university students from throughout districts in northern Uganda for the duration of their undergraduate studies. Twenty-five beneficiaries have already graduated, 25 will graduate in March 2012 and 31 will graduate in March 2014. A new group of students will be selected this year from the approximately 200 who typically apply. Scholarships allow families to send other children to school and beneficiaries undergo ongoing leadership training, which helps them mature and understand their personal stories and goals in broader context of their society. Students are encouraged to take up leadership positions at their universities and most of them have been involved at the class level, the association level and in the guild cabinet. Graduates have obtained contract and full-time employment, opened their own business, and several have run for local political office.

Capacity building: The YLP provides training and capacity building to youth in both the scholarship program and the small grants program. Workshops have been hosted on project planning and management; leadership; financial management; and monitoring and evaluation. Scholarship beneficiaries specifically are trained in monitoring and evaluation and, to provide important practical experience, they are tasked with conducting the evaluations of the grantee youth groups. Workshops on leadership and governance; financial management; and a rights-based approach to development are planned for 2011/2012.