With funding (Shs850bn) from World Bank, the GoU is continuing to use the PSFU-implemented GROW project to avail low-cost loans (at just 10% interest per annum) to hundreds of female entrepreneurs to enable them sustain, grow, expand and diversify their businesses while breaking into areas that hitherto were male-dominated.
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For now 15 years, Mbarara City-based Perfect Touch Salon owner Racheal has been a renowned salon operator in Western Uganda's busiest and fastest growing metropolis. She relies on her 26 employees to keep quickly attending to hundreds of women who keep flocking her much sought after salon to have their
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President Museveni launching the GROW Project For these five years (2021-2026) of government, the government of Uganda's focus has chiefly been economically transformation millions of Ugandan households through Parish Development Model (PDM), an intervention through which each of Uganda's 10,717 parishes is given Shs100m per year. The money is to
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Brenda Tusiime marketing one of her products Brenda Tusiime is the director of Mema Agro-Organic Processors, a company adding value to pumpkins. In an interview with Business Focus, Tusiime revealed that her value addition journey began after spending days in Kampala without making significant pumpkin sales. Faced with limited market
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Some of the winners in a group photo dfcu officials and keynote speaker Three outstanding entrepreneurs led a cohort of twenty finalists at the dfcu Rising Woman Awards 2025, where dfcu Bank and Monitor Publications Limited honoured Uganda’s most promising women-led enterprises in a ceremony held at the bank’s headquarters
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Dr Linda Nakato, a research fellow at EPRC, presents findings on the status of family-owned businesses in Uganda, and challenges impacting their sustainability Business founders have been advised to initiate a succession plan to ensure that their enterprises survive for generations. Family businesses in Uganda significantly contribute to the country’s
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Dr Jimmy Mugerwa - Project Director at the IEC delivers the keynote address on day 2 As the 6th Annual National Content Conference entered its final day, Ugandan enterprises supplying or seeking to supply goods and services to the oil and gas sector were urged to broaden their horizons and
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A beneficiary of the Green Businesses and Jobs for the Green Transformation Project presenting her business concept The Stanbic Business Incubator Limited (SBIL) successfully concluded the training for Cohort 1 of the Green Businesses and Jobs for the Green Transformation Project, a flagship initiative empowering women-led enterprise driving environmental sustainability.
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Representatives from dfcu bank, MTN and ATC Uganda in a group photo dfcu Bank, in partnership with MTN Uganda, MTN Mobile Money Uganda, American Tower Corporation (ATC) Uganda, and The Innovation Village, has announced the opening of applications for the second cohort of the Advancing Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) Programme. The
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The panel was led by Doreen Atuheire (2nd Right), Head- dfcu Women in Business at dfcu Bank, Charity Winnie Kamusiime Asiimwe (2nd Left), Head of Marketing, dfcu Bank and Prof. Twaha Kaawaase (Centre) The dfcu Rising Woman Initiative season seven is almost coming to an end after months of
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