
Adong
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06-05-2011 17:30:46
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🚜 While Agriculture is a key driver of 🇺🇬's economy, employing over half of the population, it faces many challenges. 💡 FSD Uganda's Adong writes that Agritech is emerging as a key solution that offers innovative ways to transform the sector. menterprise.africa/financial-incl…

Despite a rich economy, many investors overlook Uganda’s unique opportunities. Why is that, and how can we close the gap? Read this insightful blog shorturl.at/T2N41 by Brenda Yiiki on what it will take to unlock Uganda’s full investment potential.



FSD Uganda & Uganda Bankers’ Association disseminated insights from the e-KYC evaluation report, exploring successes & challenges in digital identity verification. Learn how e-KYC is shaping financial inclusion in #Uganda #eKYC #FinancialInclusion #Fintech #DigitalID

Mastercard Foundation MSE Recovery Fund performance highlights thus far. The Fund is now focusing on reaching young women, people living with disabilities and refugees with affordable credit. #YoungAfricaWorks


Mastercard Foundation Digitisation comes with cyber security concerns - the only way to address those is by keeping security issues in mind at design stage instead of waiting until there is an incident. The service provider of the system should articulate the security measures to be taken at design




Happening now: Mastercard Foundation is hosting us for the Young Africa Works Community of Practice on Inclusive Finance Q1 2025 partners meeting. Today's meeting is under the theme - Financing VSLAs. #YoungAfricaWorks





Participants in the Mastercard Foundation MSE Recovery Fund are being represented by Rebecca Kwagalakwe, 26, from Masaka Road who got a loan worth 3.5M UGX to invest in a poultry project. Her business is now worth over 10M UGX and she has ventured in production of clean energy sources


This FSDNetwork conference provided a platform to share about our interventions in health finance, gender norms in women #financialinclusion and digital public infrastructure. This was a great peer learning opportunity for us, and we look forward to implementing the learnings



Cash payments are holding Uganda’s agriculture back. Farmers lose money to middlemen. Agri companies deal with fraud and theft. It’s messy, outdated, and unfair. That’s why we’ve partnered with FlexiPay (Stanbic Bank Uganda) & MTN Uganda to bring digital payments to the agri sector. 🧵👇


The Security Interest in Movable Property Act came into force in May 2019, but it remains largely ineffective writes Daily Monitor. Many credit providers, including money lenders, are reluctant to rely on movable collateral. Joseph LUTWAMA explains the reasons behind this, and what


