Youth Livelihood and Leadership
Youth Leadership Project
Gulu District NGO Forum
The Gulu District NGO
Forum is a network organization that promotes a rights-based
approach to sustainable development in northern Uganda. The Forum
undertakes a variety of initiatives to empower the people of
northern Uganda, and Gulu District in particular.
With a grant from the Uganda Fund, the Gulu District NGO Forum has
created a Youth Leadership Project in collaboration with local
authorities and community-based organizations to support leadership
development for youth throughout the Acholi sub-region.
Young people, many of them former child soldiers conscripted into
the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), have been particularly affected by
the longstanding conflict in northern Uganda. Yet, they have often
not been engaged as a priority group in regional development
initiatives. The Youth Leadership Project is building the capacities
of young people to effectively and constructively engage in policy
discussions on the rebuilding of their society by supporting
leadership training and capacity building to strengthen grassroots
youth groups, providing small grants to support youth organizing and
youth-led activities, and awarding scholarships to increase access
to university-level education in the field of development studies.
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Young boys learn how to bricklaying.

Young boys learn how to make
furniture.

Gulu NGO Forum teaches leadership
skills to youth groups preparing to leave internal displacement
camps and return to their villages.
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