Recognizing that youth are the largest and most vital segment of the population in many African countries, including Uganda, the IRCU and its partners have taken the initiative to organize this colloquium. The event aims to contribute to mindset change, influence policy, and promote skilling among the youth. With Uganda’s rapidly growing young population facing significant challenges such as unemployment, lack of skills-based education, and exclusion from decision-making processes, the colloquium will provide a platform for dialogue and action to address these issues.

This program and initiative is designed to influence policy and expand opportunities for the youth through mindset change, mentorship and skilling through; (a) Extending value based skilled education for the future; (b) Nurturing values and ethics; (c) Building resilience through Inter-Generational Dialogue, (d) optimizing the opportunities presented by digitalization and (e) Supporting youth led enterprises, innovation and Capacity building in practical agriculture, business, tourism, Oil and Gas.