UWEP championing employment creation among rural women
May 2, 2021
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Over the years, majority of women in Uganda have been disenfranchised from the formal business sector due to limited access to affordable credit, limited technical knowledge on business entrepreneurship and management, limited access to markets as well as information regarding business opportunities.
To address that problem, Government of Uganda in the FY 2015/2016 initiated the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP) with a core goal of empowering Ugandan women to improve their income levels and their contribution to economic development.
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The overall goal of the programme, derived from the outcomes of the fifth UN sustainable development goal, can only be achieved by attaining the following strategic objectives; 1) strengthening the capacity of women for entrepreneurship development, 2) provision of affordable credit and support access to other financial services to enable women establish and grow their business enterprises, 3) facilitating women’s access to markets for their products and services, 4) promotion of access to appropriate technologies for production and value addition, and 5) strengthening programme management and coordination.