What we strive to Achieve

Promote ICT applications and utilization in: agriculture, health, rural development, education, environment, gender mainstreaming, water and sanitation among other key community development programs.

Promote and support the use of ICTs by women, youth and children, so to take advantage of the opportunities presented by ICTs in order to effectively address continental, regional, national and local problems hindering Sustainable Community Development.

Complement on the existing education system by making computers available to people of all ages, providing customized training, and encouraging and supporting the formation of Information Communication Technology businesses.

Mission

At YITEDEV, our mission is to create communities of practice in which the appropriate use of technology creates opportunities for youths leading to Sustainable Community Development.

YITEDEV majorly works to integrate technology in day-to-day community development interventions with a focus at the wellbeing all the youths. Goal YITEDEV’s ambition is to empower youths with ICT skills leading to Sustainable Community Development.

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are widely being adopted across every industry sector in the world. From health care to energy, from manufacturing to agriculture, etc. Our need for promoting the utilization of ICTs at all levels of community development is to increase youth engagement in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
By reaching out to youth with key technologies, we are playing a pivotal in providing pathways from education to employment. By understanding Labor Market trends, YITEDEV is offering viable solutions that tackle youth unemployment within the Ugandan economy.

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are widely being adopted across every industry sector in the world. From health care to energy, from manufacturing to agriculture, etc. Our need for promoting the utilization of ICTs at all levels of community development is to increase youth engagement in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

By reaching out to youth with key technologies, we are playing a pivotal in providing pathways from education to employment.

By understanding Labor Market trends, YITEDEV is offering viable solutions that tackle youth unemployment within the Ugandan economy.We teach youth and women to identify problems in their communities and to apply appropriate technology in their solutions.

We’ve pioneered the Digital Village movement to effectively fight youth bulge and support reverse migration in developing countries. Join us on our journey to becoming one of the most impactful non-profit organizations in the world!

By 2050 we’ll need to feed two billion more people. How can we do that without overwhelming the planet?

When we think about threats to the environment, we tend to picture cars and smokestacks, not dinner. But the truth is, our need for food poses one of the biggest dangers to the planet.

When we think about threats to the environment, we tend to picture cars and smokestacks, not dinner. But the truth is, our need for food poses one of the biggest dangers to the planet.

Agriculture is among the greatest contributors to global warming, emitting more greenhouse gases than all our cars, trucks, trains, and airplanes combined—largely from methane released by cattle and rice farms, nitrous oxide from fertilized fields, and carbon dioxide from the cutting of rain forests to grow crops or raise livestock

Farming is the thirstiest user of our precious water supplies and a major polluter, as runoff from fertilizers and manure disrupts fragile lakes, rivers, and coastal ecosystems across the globe. Agriculture also accelerates the loss of biodiversity. As we’ve cleared areas of grassland and forest for farms, we’ve lost crucial habitat, making agriculture a major driver of wildlife extinction. The environmental challenges posed by agriculture are huge, and they’ll only become more pressing as we try to meet the growing need for food worldwide. We’ll likely have two billion more mouths to feed by mid-century—more than nine billion people.

But sheer population growth isn’t the only reason we’ll need more food. The spread of prosperity across the world, especially in China and India, is driving an increased demand for meat, eggs, and dairy, boosting pressure to grow more corn and soybeans to feed more cattle, pigs, and chickens.
If these trends continue, the double whammy of population growth and richer diets will require us to roughly double the amount of crops we grow by 2050.

Step One: Freeze Agriculture’s Footprint

whenever we’ve needed to produce more food, we’ve simply cut down forests or plowed grasslands to make more farms. We’ve taken over even more land, an area roughly the size of Africa. Agriculture’s footprint has caused the loss of whole ecosystems around the globe,

But we can no longer afford to increase food production through agricultural expansion.

Trading tropical forest for farmland is one of the most destructive things we do to the environment, and it is rarely done to benefit the 850 million people in the world who are still hungry.

Most of the land cleared for agriculture in the tropics does not contribute much to the world’s food security but is instead used to produce cattle, soybeans for livestock, timber, and palm oil. Avoiding further deforestation must be a top priority.

• Step Two: Grow More on Farms We’ve Got
• Step Three: Use Resources More Efficiently
• Step Four: Shift Diets
• Step Five: Reduce Waste

Addressing our global food challenges demands that all of us become more thoughtful about the food we put on our plates. We need to make connections between our food and the farmers who grow it, and between our food and the land, watersheds, and climate that sustain us. As we steer our grocery carts down the aisles of our supermarkets, the choices we make will help decide the future

Innovative agri-businesses can play important roles in improving the livelihoods of youths in Uganda. For example, through directly providing them (access to) tools to increase their production in quality or quantity, to extend harvest shelf life or to add value through processing the agricultural produce or more indirectly, through increasing the demand for their produce, connecting them to markets or improving their enabling environment with supporting services.

KIRUCODO currently acting as our donor availed kroilers this month to YITUg, this project is meant to benefit rural areas. This project is based in katosi-Bunakijja-Mukono-Uganda and is meant to run for some years and our goal is to eradicate poverty among youths especially in rural areas.

Youths, Let’s think twice again: Which innovative and smart business models around proven agri–tools and technologies truly improve the profitability of small scale youth farmers in rural areas and fit their context?