In 2016, dfcu Bank signed an MOU with Makerere University Business School (MUBS) to start a business acceleration program for women entrepreneurs under its program Women in Business that seeks to empower women entrepreneurs in the business space. Recently, the first group comprising of 90 women successfully completed the 2-year
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There are a few enterprises that can give you a profit of Shs300,000 after Shs1m investment. However, this is has been made possible at PROF BIORESEARCH, a company founded by Julius Nyanzi, a Ugandan Bio-Entrepreneur, scientist, researcher and innovator. The company only deals in organically grown crops/ foods or organically
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SUMMARY OF PROJECT DISBURSEMENTS BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT AS OF TO-DATE PDF REPORTDownload
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Under Kiwani Women Value Addition and Marketing Group found in the eastern district of Kibuku, women are reaping big from processing fresh cassava tubers into high quality cassava flour. This women group has received funding from the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship programme (UWEP) to implement enterprises of their choice. The women
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Single motherhood and limited means, coupled with unlimited demands is such a challenge to many women that some abandon their children while others resort to unbecoming social activities, some of which can endanger their lives. The need for decent living in an ever challenging economic atmosphere which is characterized by
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Originally discriminated against for being HIV/AIDS positive, 570 women in Karusandara Sub-county in Busongora South Constituency, Kasese District have reinvented themselves by forming a Crafts Making and Selling Group. The group chairperson, Donata Komuhangyi, says Karusandara Women Crafts Making and Selling Group was established in 2004, as a community development umbrella
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The local media has reported that the border standoff between Rwanda and Uganda has been escalated by Kampala’s outright refusal to close businesses owned by Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa (in featured photo) ,a multi-millionaire Rwandan national running a string of enterprises in many African countries including Uganda. The Rwandan government believes
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Recently, an acquaintance observed an unfamiliar trend in Uganda’s supermarket business. He noted that out of five or so supermarkets that have been operating from Biina to Port bell, only two supermarkets are now in business. The spaces of those that have died out have since been replaced by sports
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Gone are the days when the only means of getting fish was by catching it in rivers, lakes and wetlands. Uganda’s aquaculture industry is rapidly growing largely because of the huge demand for fish on the market. The fishery industry in Uganda provides a vital source of food and about
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Vivo Energy plc (“Vivo Energy”) Friday announced the completion of the transaction with Engen Holdings (Pty) Limited (“Engen” or “EHL”), previously announced on 18 September 2018. The transaction adds operations in eight new countries and 230 Engen-branded service stations to Vivo Energy’s network, taking its total presence to over 2,000
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