Even with the above economic potential presented by the region’s natural resources
and resourceful citizens, Uganda’s human resource challenges is struggling to
transform “potential” into universal prosperity. This is evident in the country’s status as
one of the poorest nations, taking the 170 th position out of the 193 UN member
countries. Uganda has impressive schools operated by a fair balance of government
and private schools exceeding 30,000 in total and parents spend generously on their
children’s education to prepare them as a post-agrarian society.
Uganda has impressive graduation rates from 57 universities and 200+ colleges, with
200,000+ graduates annually according to the National Council for Higher Education
records. Two million graduates entering the job market annually translate into 200
graduates per parish averagely, who are struggling to create casual labor incomes of
UGX 300,000 per month. Concerted efforts are needed to pinpoint the educational
deficiency that leaves educated people in poverty.
CARIL has been developed to address the deficiency in Career guidance programs in
the current educational journey. Postcolonial education in Uganda despised basic
entrepreneurship by students in the family, and ultimately created in the 80s and 90s,
an excess of elitist ambitions, and a neglect of integrative, family project based learning,
that was highly successful through school and family gardens and other production
activities.