A rapidly urbanizing world presents both challenges and opportunities for humanitarian aid approaches. Urban areas often have a greater density of people and diversity of affected populations, stronger civil society, and more developed and complex governance structures, service delivery systems, and market systems. These factors heighten the importance of coordination and collaboration.

The International Rescue Committee, hereinafter referred to as “the IRC”, is a non-profit, humanitarian agency that provides relief, rehabilitation, protection, resettlement services, and advocacy for refugees, displaced persons and victims of oppression and violent conflict. The IRC has been working in Uganda since 1998 in response to mass displacement and devastation wrought by the rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Since then, in partnership with various donors, the IRC in Uganda has expanded to meet the needs of the conflict-affected regions of Karamoja and Acholi, and in the West Nile region, Southwestern Uganda as well as amongst urban refugees in Kampala and has a requirement to contract vocational institutions to provide vocational skills training to IRC clients—urban refugees and the host communities in Kampala with more focus on the three divisions of Makindye, Rubaga and Central Divisions.

The IRC Uganda program invites applications from interested vocational training institutions in Kampala for provision of vocational skills training for urban refugees and host communities in the three divisions of Makindye, Rubaga and Central.