Improving children's education and youth employment

About this project

Coffee is one of the top export products of Uganda. 95% of the coffee exported from Uganda is Robusta coffee, making it the number five exporting country of Robusta in the world. About 90% of coffee farms in Uganda are smallholder farmers having farms of one to two acre. The Uganda coffee sector has a high-risk profile on the occurrence of child labour. The main underlying reason for child labour is poverty. Families are not able to earn a living income, and school fees and other household costs cannot be paid.In the coffee sector, where relevant interventions have not yet taken place, about 40% of the households keep children away from school to work on their farm. With the support of project activities including mainly awareness raising, improved incomes and community-based, the incidence of child labour can be reduced to less than 5%.In addition, coffee farmers do not have diversified crops and are insufficiently prepared for the effects of climate change. In April – July 2022, a long period of drought took place in Uganda, destroying the crops of maize and beans, resulting in an increase of food prices by more than 50%. Farmer input are twice as expensive due to the Russian – Ukrainian war.Recent studies also show that the percentage of child labour has further increased during and after COVID-19 pandemic. Local and national government fail to make progress in diminishing these percentages by taking corrective and preventive action against child labour. A positive note i…

Published by

Netherlands Enterprise Agency · Government

Countries

Uganda

Sectors

Food crop production

Funded by

Netherlands Enterprise Agency

Implemented by

Brand Coffee Farm Uganda SMC Limited, Community Empowerment for Rural Development (CEFORD), Uganda Coffee Farmer Alliance, Kitengal Coffe farmer cooperative society limited, Kanseera Multi Purpose Co-opreative Society Limited, Brand Development Group B.V.

Accountable

Netherlands Enterprise Agency

Published by Netherlands Enterprise Agency to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 25 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NL-KVK-27378529-FBK22S08AB.

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