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The Challenge Fund for Youth Employment (CFYE) is a 7-year and €134 million programme funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that aims to create a prosperous future for 235,000 young women and men in the Middle East, North Africa, Sahel & West Africa and Horn of Africa regions. The Fund will be supporting initiatives in 11 focus countries that will offer youth, in particular young women, opportunities for work that is demand-driven and productive, offering a stable income and safe working conditions, and that is contributing to their personal development and social protection.
Private sector, civil society and knowledge institutions will be invited to submit proposals geared to scalable solutions for creating more and better jobs and income generating opportunities for youth. Solutions will in particular focus on an integrated approach that addresses the shortcomings on the demand side (jobs) and supply side (skills) and bridging the mismatch between these two in the labour market.

Assignment Overview:
Dealing with the negative consequences of climate change and creating a large number of jobs for a growing population are two of the major challenges facing Uganda. The transition to a green economy can help tackle both simultaneously. This transition is twofold, along the lines of adaptation and mitigation. On the one hand, it involves making the Ugandan economy more resilient to the effects of climate change through initiatives that anticipate, adapt and absorb changes in climate. On the otherhand, it requires investments in amongst others renewable energy and more sustainable production processes, in order to reduce Uganda’s own emissions. Both of these tracks of the green transition require not only investments and resource allocation, but also labour.
Green jobs, therefore, are essential to make it work, and they therefore hold a great potential for a green and an economic transition. This is why green jobs are a key focus area for the Challenge Fund for Youth Employment, not just in Uganda but across its regional portfolio. Since the start of CFYE in Uganda, and through the portfolio of private sector initiatives that it established through two competitive calls for solutions, a wealth of experience and insights have been generated on the topic of green jobs. At the same time, , still a lot is unknown and there is a strong interest to bring these experiences and insights (not just from within CFYE but also from the broader Ugandan green economy) together in one learning and best practices report. It is for this reason that CFYE is looking for a green jobs researcher to take up the below described consultancy.

Key Research Questions:
A first research, implemented by CFYE and Include, was delivered in 2023 and covered in-depth insights on green jobs across Africa, complemented by specific case studies from CFYE’s Kenya portfolio. This research report can be found via Microsoft Word - green jobs WITH TEXT BOXES and IMAGE HEADER copy.docx (includeplatform.net)
The above report should be seen as a critical foundation to this assignment; the definition of green jobs for this assignment should align with the definition described in the above report, as should the focus on particular (green) sectors and business models. This assignment should be seen as a follow-up to this initial research by INCLUDE, specifically zooming into the context of Uganda. It is foreseen that this assignment addresses the following questions:
Main question: What are promising pathways within the different green sectors and business models (agriculture, waste recycling, circular, etc.) for creating decent jobs for youth in Uganda?