Uganda

Young people what it takes to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. We help diverse young people to ensure equal access for all to decent work, essential public services and a productive, dignified life.

Uganda

Young people what it takes to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. We help diverse young people to ensure equal access for all to decent work, essential public services and a productive, dignified life.

Featured projects

British Council Youth Connect Programme

Young people in Uganda face growing challenges but have limited influence over decisions that affect their lives. Youth Connect creates space for their voices, leadership, and solutions to shape stronger, more resilient communities. Program Overview Youth Connect is a programme implemented by the British Council in Uganda to address the challenges shaping young people’s everyday lives. These include …

Graduate Career Accelerator Programme (GCAP)

The Graduate Career Accelerator Programme (GCAP) aims to drive sustainable employment outcomes and long-term career success for Africa’s next generation of leaders by equipping them with essential skills, industry exposure, and direct employer connections. Restless Development Uganda, in partnership with the African Leadership Academy (ALA), launched the Graduate Career Accelerator Programme (GCAP). This initiative aims …

The Connect Project

The Challenge: According to the 2024 census, Uganda remains one of the world’s youngest nations, with 50.5% of its population aged 17 years and under, and a further 22.7% between the ages of 18–30. Despite their numbers, young people’s needs are often unmet, and they continue to face the consequences of poor governance, underrepresentation, and …

Youth Researchers Academy

Program Overview Young persons with disabilities are often excluded from the broader discussions on sexual reproductive health. When they are included, it is often tokenistic and done only to appear diverse. They do not participate meaningfully for numerous reasons, namely, a lack of agency and data, accessibility challenges, limited leadership opportunities, and low investment in …

SHE SOARS Youth Advisory Board: Powering Youth-Led Change

Program Overview The Youth Advisory Board (YAB) is at the heart of the SHE SOARS project—an initiative working across Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of out-of-school adolescent girls. Established as a fully youth-led governance body, the YAB  are the watchdog for meaningful youth engagement, ensuring that the …

Restless Development Uganda Strategic Plan (Strategy Brief) 2023-2030

Uganda’s demographic trends are shaping every aspect of its development From economic growth and education to healthcare, governance, security, and climate change adaptation. With a growing youth population, the government sees this as a historic opportunity to drive the country toward middle-income status. Vision 2040 and the National Development Plans are key to this ambitious …

G2C2 Girls from Nepal

Global Girls Creating Change

Global Girls Creating Change (G2C2) empowered girls in Brazil, Indonesia, Nepal, and Uganda to lead climate action and green entrepreneurship through skills training, advocacy, and innovation grants. Led by Hivos with Restless Development and Humanis, G2C2 supported girls to research, influence, and implement climate solutions in their communities.

Green Jobs project

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues affecting our world and will be a major issue that young people will have to contend with in the future. The effects of climate change are likely to hit sub-Saharan Africa the hardest where youth populations are already large and only projected to grow. Like many …

Taking Climate Change to Schools

Living in the Climate Crisis Young people are disproportionally affected by the climate crisis. The voices of young Africans are often unheard in public and political discussions of climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation. Restless Development’s Living in Climate Crisis report, drawing from 1214 survey responses and 102 interviews with young people in Uganda found …

SHE SOARS

Supporting out-of-school Adolescent girls in Uganda through Sexual and reproductive Health education. Adolescent girls face many barriers in exercising their Sexual and Reproductive Health rights,. The cost of these barriers are devastating and deadly. Barred from seeking services and making decisions about their health, one to 4 adolescent girls become mothers every year in Uganda.*  …

Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Higher Education

Offering young people prospects for economic participation. Restless Development is partnering with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to harness the opinions, ideas, insights and lived experiences of a diverse group of young people in Uganda. The programme aims to contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 4 ‘Quality Education’ by strengthening local Technical and Vocational …

Climate Change & Youth Aspirations

This new study is looking at how climate change impacts the lives of young people. What are young people doing to mitigate the effects of climate change upon their lives and their communities? We are also looking at how young people can be helped to overcome this challenge.

Youth Think Tank

Training young people to conduct and lead research projects, collecting evidence, and documenting youth needs, challenges, and aspirations in seven African countries to influence livelihoods and employment policy.

The Development Alternative

Committed to testing and developing new ways of doing development that are truly led by young people and their communities because when communities lead, development succeeds.

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Report Assessing the Influence of Climate Change on Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes

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Byakuno Yakut, Youth Researcher - CCYBA project Uganda "It is the right of young people to participate in politics, democratic processes, gender sensitivity and sexuality education."
Gladys Aryemo, Youth Reseacher - SHE SOARS project Uganda "Adolescent girls out there need to speak up about the support and services they need. No one can speak for us but us!”
Asutre Gilbert, Youth Reseacher - SHE SOARS project Uganda "As a young person, I urge young people to demand what they want, especially sexuality information and other services. It is our right to voice our needs, we are change makers, and our decisions are crucial to the development of our world!"

This is us

Gabriel Iguma - Uganda Hub Lead Uganda "Every nation's future rests on its young people. It serves all of us to invest in that future by strategically and deliberately investing in our young people. We should start by shifting not just responsibility, but also power to the young people. That is our main focus."
Nestor Atukwatse - Uganda's Values Champion 2023/24 Uganda "Living by values is like creating fingerprints whereby your success may not be remembered but rather the way u lived and worked with others. I always feel proud when I inspire our young people with the values instilled in me by Restless Development."
Christine Chandia, Programme Officer - SHE SOARS project Uganda "By offering young people clear and accurate information about sexuality, we can reduce their chances of becoming pregnant at an early age and help them achieve their aspirations."

Quick links

Restless Development Uganda Strategic Plan (Strategy Brief) 2023-2030 Tackling the climate crisis should start at school

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Ministers Village, Ntinda
Kampala +256 200 906450 infouganda@restlessdevelopment.org
Moroto
Moroto Local Government Offices (Next to RDC’s Office)
Independence Avenue
Moroto +256 393 241133 infouganda@restlessdevelopment.org
Jinja
Plot 40
Ngonde Ntende Road,
Block P 9/10
Walukuba West, Jinja +256 755 097827 infouganda@restlessdevelopment.org
Arua
Block A, Plot 4,
Caesar Ochama Close,
Arua City. +256 200 906450 infouganda@restlessdevelopment.