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Who we are
Youth & women empowerment (YAWE) is an independent registered non-government and nonprofit community-based organization working in the jinja and Buikwe districts of Eastern Uganda. YAWE’s prime motto is capacity building and services delivery to the deprived and marginalized people of the society.
In 2019 a group of dynamic and like-minded people working in different walks of life, got together to establish this organization to address the most urgent and pressing needs to support the youth, single mothers, widows, and women of Uganda in matters ranging from welfare, social-economic sustainable development to the restoration of character and hope to live fulfilled vision focused lives. True to this spirit the organization was named Youth and Women Empowerment(YAWE).
Considering the shared passion for youth and women empowerment the team was moved by the problems plaguing the youth and women in the local communities and consequently, in the future, the organization’s focus will not be kept limited by either geographical or sector constraints but for now, the organization has its operations in eastern Uganda carrying out a range of interventions and initiatives in the areas of education, social-economic development projects/programsandemergencyresponse& preparedness.
The type of activities undertaken by the organization so far range from capacity building to service delivery, with the focus remaining on the deprived and marginalized segments of the society. Whereas in terms of operations, efforts have been made to (a) enlisting the involvement of the locals when initiating activities at the grass-roots level; and (b) mobilizing women and youth for united-shared accountability and sustainable development in society.
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Scope of Work
YAWE has so far undertaken initiatives in the areas of business and financial literacy, savings program, and agriculture in the districts of Buikwe and Jinja (Eastern Uganda) working with the youth and women who together comprises over 80 percent of the Ugandan population this is done through our famous approach of collaboration, learning, shared accountability and advocacy.
YAWE enjoys a rich experience of working in the diverse socio-cultural environment of Uganda and extensive networking with the District & local Governments, civil society institutions, other community-based organizations, and media
Our Goal
Our goal is to contribute to improving the living standards of the vulnerable communities of eastern Uganda through community mobilization, promoting the culture of seeking the kingdom of God, capacity building, advocacy & strengthening of groups at the grass-root level.
Our Target groups
YAWE basically works mainly with the less privileged in social and economic endeavors in rural and parry-urban eastern Uganda. Its target groups include women and the youth, the youth alone constitutes over 80 percent of the Ugandan population according to the recently conducted census.
Amongst these, we lookout for communities where the majority are still living in devastating conditions and deprived of the very basic necessities of life. In the future, YAWE desires to include the urban populace living in slums and other such areas that can potentially benefit from its poverty alleviating programs and projects.
Our Approach
Approach Influenced by the new development paradigm, which puts people before things, YAWE follows a participatory approach in every sphere of its work; the traditional knowledge of the members in the groups formed in the communities is valued and respected, and there is the confidence that these people are capable of self-reliance and sustainability, on a practical level, therefore, the fundamental thrust of this approach is decentralization and empowerment.
We believe that for the community to be able to work for its own development and reduce its dependency on outside assistance there is a need for full involvement at all stages of the development cycle. The participation of community members in the identification of opportunities and problems affecting them, planning potential solution projects, management of these projects, implementation and evaluation of the projects is a key factor in YAWE’s work both internally and externally; Internally the participatory approach is adopted in
Youth & Women Empowerment (YAWE) Profile.
Managing the affairs of the organization, externally the process of social mobilization and economic development, a participatory, self-help, self-sustainable approach is adopted through community involvement and formation of locally managed groups.
