The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Ltd has facilitated the skilling of youth from project-affected households as part of the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP).
These vocational skills are intended to boost members of these affected households’ capacity to earn an income and improve their resilience that may arise after displacement through self-employment or getting paid employment.
Of the 754 students graduating from affected households in Hoima, Kakumiro, Kikuube, Kyankwanzi, and Mubende districts 249 are female students. They were enrolled at St. Simon Peter’s Vocational Institute in Hoima, St Peters Vocational Training Institute in Mubende, Buhimba Technical Institute in Kikuube and Millenium Business School in Hoima district.
The students have completed 3 months of Vocational training and 1 month of internship.
A total of 1,020 youth have been trained from project-affected households along the entire Pipeline route.
Youth have received skills in the disciplines of Tailoring & Garment Design, Welding, Building and construction, Carpentry and Joinery, Motor Vehicle and Motorcycle Mechanics, Hairdressing, Catering, and Electrical Installations.
The youth will receive starter kits that suit their specific vocational programs to start their journey to employment.
This initiative is part of the company’s commitment to empower affected households through a livelihood restoration program, aiming to restore, transition, and improve their livelihoods by utilizing available household resources post-resettlement
About the Livelihood Restoration program.
The objective of the Livelihood Restoration Program is to provide project-affected persons whose livelihoods or income levels are adversely affected an opportunity to improve, or at least restore, their means of income-earning capacity, production levels, and standards of living
Livelihood restoration is being implemented in two phases.
PPhase one
Provision of transitional support to households as a short-term measure to support their food security in terms of dry rations/ food baskets within the first 6-12 months as soon as the affected Households vacate land.
So far, 1949/2257 eligible households that were heavily impacted are receiving food baskets