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Rural Digital & Financial Literacy Toolkit – Uganda

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Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 98% 32/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

A Hive Colab/UNCDF/NITA-U toolkit delivered by 300 trained facilitators in five local languages reached 55,000 women, youth and refugees across five Ugandan districts by end-2022, against a 90,000-person target, using a government open-source IVR platform.

55,000 people
People reached (interim) (by end-2022)
90,000 people
Full-project target (by project close in 2024)
300
Trainers of Trainers trained
10
Local NGO anchor partners
5 districts (Abim, Gulu, Lira, Isingiro, Koboko)
Districts covered

Details

Promoter
Hive Colab, with the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and National Information Technology Authority–Uganda (NITA-U)
Period
2022–2024
Keywords
digital literacy, financial inclusion, refugees, rural development

Context

Women, youth and refugees in Uganda's Abim, Gulu, Lira, Isingiro and Koboko districts face low literacy, limited smartphone access and a digital-financial-skills gap, including smallholder farmers and refugee communities.

Objectives

Narrow the digital and digital-financial literacy gap for women, youth and refugees, targeting 90,000 people trained by project close in 2024.

Activities

Kampala-based tech hub Hive Colab, with UNCDF and Uganda's National IT Authority (NITA-U), built a Digital Literacy and Digital Financial Literacy Toolkit in five local languages, hosted on NITA-U's open-source IVR platform, and delivered it through 10 local NGO 'anchor partners' and 300 trained Trainers of Trainers.

Results

By end-2022, an interim 55,000 people had been reached against the full-project target of 90,000 by 2024; no confirmation of the final total was located.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
Hive Colab (Kampala tech hub) with UNCDF and NITA-U; 10 local NGO anchor partners; 300 trained Trainers of Trainers

Conditions for success

  • Five-language toolkit adapted for low-literacy, low-smartphone-access users via an IVR platform
  • Cascade delivery model through local anchor NGOs and trained Trainers of Trainers
  • Hosting on a government (NITA-U) open-source platform for institutional continuity

Common failure modes

  • No public budget figure or independent completion report exists, so it is unclear whether the 90,000-person target was ultimately met or whether delivery continued past 2024

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