Agriculture

In agriculture, TeamUp works with youth to improve their economic situation through:

Youth Farmer Field Schools approach: youth receive hands-on training in best agricultural practices for better yields, food security and incomes.
Mentorship: Peer-to-peer mentorship between successful entrepreneurs from TeamUp 1 and new youth entrepreneurs focusing on business identification, planning, management, and compliance.
Networking and exchange visits: Exposing the youth to successful enterprises for benchmarking and knowledge sharing.
Market linkages: Identifying and creating access to markets for youth products, including innovative strategies like mobile markets.

Jennifer Nakato, operations manager, Kamuli Youth millers

Institutional growth: Supporting youth structures to operate formally and professionally.
Cool parenting dialogues: highlighting the youth’s potential and motivating parents to provide the necessary support including land for agricultural activities and allowing space for meetings.
Change agents: selected community members are trained on conflict resolution, mediation, counselling, vision journey processes and gender-based violence referral pathways. These cascade the information to other community members through household visits and community meetings.

Gender household model and couple seminars: community-level gender awareness sessions focus on joint planning and decision-making at household level and the potential benefits for youth-led households.
Special events and exhibitions: these give the youth a platform to exhibit and promote their businesses and create network with other entrepreneurs.