The study aimed at assessing the impact of government programs on youth empowerment in communities with a case study of mityana central division, mityana district and it was guided by the following objectives: To analyze how financial literacy trainings influence livelihoods of youth in Mityana Central Communities ,to evaluate how the provision of start-up capital influence the livelihood of youth in Mityana Central Communities and to examine how market linkages influences livelihoods of youth in Mityana Central Communities. From the findings, 29.9% of the respondents thought that education level indeed hindered understanding of training offered to a very great extent. These views were conveyed by those youths who had secondary school (15.6%) and primary school 11.7%). Other response was at 11.7 % who thought it hindered to a great extent, 14.3% were undecided, another 15.6% said it was on a small extent while 28.6% said it hindered to a very small extent. On financial literacy training, the study recommends that financial literacy is a vital training that should be conducted to help entrepreneurs save enough to provide adequate capital to invest in their businesses.