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Skilling the Karamojong

In Karamoja (Northern Uganda) much of the labor is sourced outside the district as employers experience a shortage of local skilled personnel. Nevertheless, Karamoja has untapped human potential in numerous sectors. The challenges in skill development include that Business, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (BTVET) is not adapted to the demands of the local…

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AfDB Approves $15m Support to SMEs in East Africa

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved an equity investment of US $15 million in Catalyst Fund II, a second-generation private equity fund investing in mid-market companies in East Africa. Building on its successful deployment of Catalyst Fund I, Catalyst Principal Partners, a prominent East African private equity fund, launched Catalyst…

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UN Women Calls for Financial Inclusion

On December 15, UN Women Uganda joined the rest of the world to celebrate the International rural women’s day with a call to financial institutions to establish financial products that suits rural women farmers to enable them to save, borrow and insure. This will boost their productivity as well as widen the economic opportunities available…

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Denmark and UNFPA Sign $13m Agreement on Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

On December 12, 2017, the Government of Denmark and the United Nations Population Fund in Uganda signed a five-year agreement towards improving women and young people’s health. Denmark has committed DKK 85 million, equivalent to approximately USD 13 million. The programme for ‘Women, Adolescents and Youth Rights and Empowerment’ will run from 2018 to 2022…

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