The issue of poverty and unemployment of especially the majority of the world’s population, the youth is not something new. The Government of Uganda has had a number of interventions namely: Mechanization of Agriculture in the 1980s, Poverty Alleviation Programme (PAP) and Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) in the 1990s and early 2000s, Entandikwa in the 1990s, National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) in the early 2000’s and now the latest Youth Livelihood Programme (YLP) but all these have yielded little tangible results in terms of eliminating household poverty. The purpose of this study was to find out if WLP is indeed leading the Youth out of poverty. The study focused reviewed some of the major literature on this subject and these include: major writings on Youth and Poverty eradication in both developing and developed countries. The researcher mainly used qualitative methods of data collection that is interview to collect data from 25 respondents. Findings indicated that, most of the Programme requires the Youth to be in groups but this formation of youth groups is not working well, it was further noted that the constitution and other documents interpretation is also a challenge to most of them do not understand English language which is used causing their elimination from benefiting from the programme and lastly. The researcher therefore recommends community led approaches in policy design to avoid such weaknesses. Secondly the study recommends educating the Youth in skills as the main driving force of employment creation as opposed to too much emphasis on the business as the case is.

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