The development objective of the project is to enhance the participation of women in both rural and urban areas, in economic development in order to contribute to job creation, improved household incomes; improved food security; promote value addition in agriculture; promote access to markets and financial services and alleviate poverty in the rural communities.
This project seeks to provide gender sensitive training and business support services for small women entrepreneurs in the urban and rural areas of Uganda. The target beneficiaries of this project are existing women entrepreneurs heading small and medium enterprises (SMEs) or planning to start a business in Uganda. The project aims to enhance access to existing business development services provided by Enterprise Uganda, by enabling women entrepreneurs to establish and/or strengthen their enterprises by overcoming obstacles to accessing finance and Business Development Services (BDS), so that they can survive and compete in an increasingly global economy.
Concretely, the project expects to overcome the main barriers faced by women entrepreneurs in the SME sector in Uganda, covering both urban and rural women all around the country. It seeks to support creation and expansion of the businesses by providing business development services to women associations/groups.
The programme offers the following:
Entrepreneurship training workshops- that aim at enhancing the competence of women running SME’s on such concepts as goal setting, confidence building, negotiation skill, information seeking and access to credit.
Business health checks- that will critically assess the organisational strategy, management of business operations, human resources and financial control systems.
Business counselling services- that will offer tailored business support and advisory services to Women SMEs using business counsellors.
Business planning Training - to enable the Women SMEs plan for growth.
The project will last 3 years and is to be implemented by Enterprise Uganda, which has over 7 years experience in Entrepreneurship development in Uganda.
For further information on how your women’s organisation and members can participate please contact the following:
Mr. Charles Ocici
The Executive Director, Enterprise Uganda
Plot 38, Lumumba Avenue, Nakasero
P.O Box 24581 Kampala
Tel: 0414- 251810 / 343204
Fax: 0414- 250968
Email: ocici@enterprise.co.ug