Kampala Capital City Authority—KCCA has created an Employment Services Bureau for the youth at Ssezibwa house, the former residence for the Mayor of Kampala.
In June 2011, KCCA law enforcement officers acting on the orders of the executive director Jennifer Musisi, evicted Alhaji Nasser Ssebaggala, the former mayor, after he refused to surrender Ssezibiwa house claiming that he legally acquired it when KCC decided to dispose off some of its property in 2010.
On Wednesday, Harriet Mudondo, the KCCA director in charge of gender, community services and production, told reporters at City Hall that the employment services bureau shall be funded to the tune of one billion shillings to coordinate unemployed youths in the city.
She says the then Kampala City Council used to have an employment services bureau but its activities were halted in the 1970s. She says the growing numbers of unemployed youths has led KCCA to reintroduce the centre.
Mudondo explains that the Bureau shall help the unemployed youth to meet, be trained and get opportunities of finding other potential employers.
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According to Mudondo, renovations on the Ssezibwa House are going on for the centre to be launched on May 1st 2012.
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Mundondo adds that KCCA is also using the 16.5 billion shillings which is a central government contribution to the authority to support the youth. The money is sent to KCCA under the job stimulus program towards the expansion of medium size markets and extending interest free loans to youths interested in investing in economic activities. It would be used to complete Komamboga Aquaculture, where young people shall be trained in fish farming.
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Adam Kyazze, the acting chairperson KCCA committee on gender, community services and production says interest free loans shall be extended to the youths in the age bracket of 18 to 35 years.
He says applicants shall be entitled to a one-time allocation of a maximum of 5 million shillings for a group of five or 10 million shillings for a group of 10 people.
Other criteria include the ability to read and write and ready to operate a business within the city boundaries.
