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Structured Pathways and Policy Frameworks for Addressing Marginalization in Batwa Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment in Uganda

Uganda's current entrepreneurship and employment system continues to reproduce colonial legacies by systematically excluding Batwa youth from economic participation, making their Indigenous knowledge and enterprises invisible. These exclusions are not just economic but also epistemic, rooted in silencing testimony and policy structures that ignore Indigenous ways of knowing. To address these complex injustices, structured pathways based on decolonial, gender-sensitive, and culturally relevant frameworks are urgently needed. The goal is to shift from policies that promote assimilation to those that affirm, enabling Batwa youth to co-define work, wealth, and development on their own terms.