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Over 100 youth in Pakwach district where 1/3 of the number constitute the unemployed category, have been blessed with a free training for a period on one week conducted by Mediavision Academy with support from Uganda Communications Commission to ensure young people in Pakwach compete favorably in workplace environment and the environment outside the workplace that impacts work. In the last day of the training after successfully young people in Pakwach being taken through training in ICT and Multimedia skilling, Mediavision Academy thought it prudent enough to take through the participant in Entrepreneurial and Financial Literacy skill. Financial literacy for social media and multimedia content creators is vital since it will help them to in budgeting and cost management, financial record keeping and credit control and also principles of Excellency in social media entrepreneurship. Youths during the ICT and Multimedia skilling in Pakwach District Pakwach LC V Chairperson Robert Omito St...

 This Article evaluates the impact of a randomized training program brought by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) and her partners MEDIAVISION ACADEMY & GRETAK SERVICES LTD to the youths in Pakwach on ICT & Multimedia outcomes of trainees. This is one of two such randomized training trials conducted on the fourth day of the training and, as such, it offers the unique opportunity to examine the causal impact of training in a developing context. Youths one by one demonstrating their lessons  We use collected data on groups randomly selected to training and find that training had widespread and large effects on youth in terms of creating content, using the available application to exhibit created work, assignment to ensure that trainees learnt what they were taken through.   In particular, youths who received training having a higher probability of being employed, of having a formal job with a written contract. Moreover, trained youth earn higher wa...