Uganda

Young people have the power 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 have the power 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

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.

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.*  …

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 …

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.

Bosco's Story

Now we are seeing families making decisions together... so everyone is empowered.

Bosco, Entrepreneur

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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."

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Contact us

Kampala (HQ)
Plot 194 Kigobe/Kyambogo Road
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 29 Bax Road
P.O. Box 1208,
Jinja +256 755 097827 infouganda@restlessdevelopment.org
Arua
Block A, Plot 4,
Caesar Ochama Close,
Arua City. +256 200 906450 infouganda@restlessdevelopment.