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Implementation of programme plans

• Conduct capacity-building sessions with parents/caregivers to ensure they have improved parenting skills to care for their children.

• Empowerment of children to advocate for their rights to eliminate child labour.

• Establish and strengthen child rights clubs to enhance meaningful child participation and advocacy initiatives. Build capacity of child protection structures, teachers, School Management Committees and other community gatekeepers to ensure child protection and undertake initiatives to eliminate child labour.

• Coordinate with stakeholders on the development/reviewing/enforcement of bylaws on child labour.

• Engage youth and other stakeholders in community conversations on improving the quality of youth-friendly services. This also includes addressing barriers which prevent the delivery of quality child labour prevention services.

• Support out-of-school youth, child labour survivors and other children at risk to access and enroll for technical and vocational training including facilitating apprenticeships/placements with recognized private firms/local artisans.

• Coordinate the establishment of a functional community legal mobile court system to effectively respond to child labour issues.

• Collaborate with district local government, community leaders and other stakeholders to strengthen the child protection referral system to effectively respond and provide support (medical, education, legal, etc.) to child labour affected children.

• Support parents/caregivers to join Self Help Groups (SHGs) to enhance their participation in economic empowerment opportunities in their localities.

• Build capacity of parents/caregivers in entrepreneurship and business management skills using the IGA Selection, Planning and Management, and financial literacy methodologies.

• Conduct continuous project monitoring, evaluation and reporting including documentation of successes.

• Build the capacity of youth through their groups to ensure business growth.

• Coordination of mechanism on youth livelihoods is established and functioning at the community level.

Programme Planning and Budgeting.Participate in project design.

• Develop project annual work plan and budgets.

• Development of project activity implementation plans

• Participate in project implementation coordination meetings.

• Contribute to the development of requests for change in project design and budgets.

• Participate at meetings aimed at generating project reports, plans, budgets, and learning.

To facilitate Reporting, Resource Management and Documentation-

• Generate requests for funds and procurements needed to organize and conduct planned activities.

• Document activity implementation in a location.

• Generate timely reports according to SAO Uganda’s standards.

• Document and share change stories.