Are you a Ugandan that’s looking for a way forward but you don’t know where to start from? Are you one that has started something but you don’t have enough capital for business expansion?.
Well in this article we focus on showing you the five websites that are going to help you get help from the government depending on your age, gender or business category. You have probably heard about these initiatives but you didn’t know how to access them. So this article gives you the right links to the presidential initiatives websites
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The national youth council
Are you a Ugandan between 18years-35years?
National youth council of Uganda which works under the mission “to engage all youth across Uganda—rural, urban, educated, and non-educated—ensuring everyone can realize their potential” is the best option I’m going to recommend to you.
It aims to empower youth to be leaders of change by ensuring their perspectives are integrated into national policies and development plans. This initiative is available to all youth at all levels in Uganda
Visit website on, https://www.nyc.go.ug/
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Emyooga
Emyooga is a word derived from a local Ugandan dialect (Runyankore) to refer to specialized skills enterprises/groups. It is a presidential initiative aimed at wealth and job creation The Presidential Initiative on Wealth and Job creation (Emyooga) was launched in August 2019 as part of the broad government strategy targeting to transform 68% of homesteads from subsistence to market-oriented production with the overall objective of promoting job creation and improving household incomes.
Read more about this government initiative onhttps://presidentialinitiatives.go.ug/emyooga/
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Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Program(UWEP)
This is an initiative of the Government of Uganda that is aimed at improving access to financial services for women and equipping them with skills for enterprise growth, value addition and marketing of their products and services.
So if you are a woman that is stuck on what next, here is your way forward
UWEP, implemented as a Rolling Programme under the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD), is intended to empower Ugandan women for economic development.
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Read more, https://mglsd.go.ug/uwep/
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Parish Development model
Popularly known as PDM is a strategy for organizing and delivering public and private sector interventions for wealth creation and employment generation at the parish level as the lowest economic planning unit. The Parish Development Model is made up of seven pillars: Production, processing and marketing(value chain development) ,Infrastructure and Economic services , Financial inclusion ,Social services Community data(Community information system)
Read more about PDM
https://presidentialinitiatives.go.ug/parish-development-model/
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The Generating Growth Opportunities and Productivity for Women Enterprises (GROW)
This project is a Government of Uganda Project, funded by the World Bank, implemented by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development and the Private Sector Foundation Uganda in all districts, Municipalities and Cities. It aims at increasing access to Entrepreneurial Services that enable female Entrepreneurs to grow their Enterprises from micro to small and small to medium in targeted locations, including the Refugee host districts.
More details about the GROW initiative, https://grow.go.ug/
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