Whereas SMEs provide the largest amount of job opportunities (over 50% of employment), countries like Uganda with huge prospects in textiles and garments are not operating to scale to reduce unemployment and improve livelihoods. The United Nations 2016 reported that nearly 10% of actively working individuals in the world live on less than 2 USD a day with over 120 women for every 100 men both aged between 25 and 34 years living in extreme poverty, most of whom in Sub Saharan Africa.  In 2017, UN reported that over 60% of actively working individuals were informally employment and men were earning more than 12% across 40 of 45 countries assessed. The labor force participation of women is 63% compared with 94% for men and women continue to do nearly three times the domestic work and unpaid care that men do.

In view of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) one, eight and nine, RAHA continues to skill Ugandans through vocational training ranging from: - Fashion Design; Sculpture & Handcraft; Hair Dressing, Re-usable Sanitary Pads making; Carpentry among others. Among other economic empowerment interventions undertaken by RAHA include: - entrepreneurship and business skills training; equipping women and youth’s groups through Village Savings Loans Associations (VSLAs); farming, animal rearing, and home gardening.