Tag Archives: Ukarimu Academy

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    Official launch ‘Boost employability Karamoja tourism staff’

    Today we officially launched the 'Boost the Employability of Tourism staff in Elgon and Karamoja' project! The project is part of a larger initiative to enable sustainable and decent income-generating employability for Ugandan youth. The French Embassy in Uganda funds the project and is led by EyeOpenerWorks. Karamoja Tourism Academy and Elgon Tourism Academy are [...] More
  • Start of project: Boost employability tourism staff Karamoja

    Karamoja Tourism Academy and partners kickstarted the 'Boost the Employability of Tourism employees in Elgon and Karamoja' project. 20 ambitious business leaders participated in the first workshop to develop the framework for the 2 years project. The project aims at addressing the emerging needs of the rapidly developing tourism sector in northeast Uganda. It focuses [...] More
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    Call for Tourism Business Owners in Karamoja

    Are you a tourism or hospitality business in Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region? and would you like to improve the skills of your staff? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you! APPLY HERE. What are we looking for? Registered tourism businesses (hotels, lodges, CBOs, tour operators, activity providers) in Northeastern Uganda. Determination among owners and managers [...] More
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    Boosting Employability of Tourism Staff in Karamoja

    Are you a tourism or hospitality business in Uganda's Karamoja sub-region? and would you like to improve the skills of your staff? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you! The Ukarimu Employability Training project Background and objectives Uganda’s youth often struggle to find meaningful employment to better their lives, while the growing Uganda tourism [...] More
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    Graduation Skilled Girls in Hospitality Karamoja

    Graduation of Skilled Hospitality Girls in Karamoja by Matany Girls Vocational School under Skills For Jobs program sponsored by Enabel Uganda. More
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    Graduation of 25 skilled Karamoja Site Guides

    The 25 young women and men are coming from allover the region and have developed 25 new tourist products! They also learned about pricing, marketing, guiding and other practical adventure and community tourism skills. The site guides will be recognised by "Uganda Safari Guides Association" and marketed under the Warrior Nomad Trail initiative. We are [...] More
  • Launch Karamoja Hospitality and Site Guiding Training

    This week we officially kickstarted the skilling of 75 youth from Karamoja in hospitality, tourism and site guiding. Uganda is one of world's youngest countries and is facing a huge challenge with its unemployed youth. On the contrary, there's a lack of skilled staff in the tourism and hospitality sector in the country. As Karamoja [...] More
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    Launch Ukarimu Academy COVID-19 resilience training program

    Tuesday 23 April marked the day that Ukarimu Academy finally launched the roll-out of its COVID-19 resilience training program with Karamoja Tourism Academy as implementing partner for Northeastern Uganda! Karamoja Tourism Academy This program will be the third training cycle for the Karamoja Tourism Academy focused on improving the quality of service and creating meaningful [...] More
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    Karamoja Tourism Academy implements UKARIMU COVID-19 resilience training

    Our partners of UKARIMU Academy invited the Karamoja Tourism Academy and other hospitality and tourism training stakeholders from around the country for an introduction workshop for the upcoming UKARIMU COVID-19 resilience training program. Background of program Due to the prevalence of the COVID-19 earlier last year, now more than ever, an effective crisis response strategy [...] More
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    Second Karamoja Tourism Skills Coordination Platform Meeting

    The second edition of the Karamoja Tourism Skills Development Coordination Platform (KTSDP) meeting, took place on 18 of February 2021 in Moroto. The purpose of the platform is to strengthen coordination, promotion, and preservation of tourism ecosystem services relevant for job skills creation while ensuring continuous benefits to locals and economies. The initiative is spearheaded [...] More