The "Enhancing the Competitiveness of Small and Medium Size Enterprises project (ECOS)" in Uganda aims to increase the competitiveness of 1,000 Ugandan SMEs with the overall goal of creating employment and improving the employment situation of workers through increased income, secured jobs, and improved working conditions.
Tasks of the Technical Advisor: Access to Finance
The "Enhancing the Competitiveness of Small and Medium Size Enterprises project (ECOS)" in Uganda aims to increase the competitiveness of 1,000 Ugandan SMEs with the overall goal of creating employment and improving the employment situation of workers through increased income, secured jobs, and improved working conditions.
Tasks of the Deputy Team Leader:
The "Enhancing the Competitiveness of Small and Medium Size Enterprises project (ECOS)" in Uganda aims to increase the competitiveness of 1,000 Ugandan SMEs with the overall goal of creating employment and improving the employment situation of workers through increased income, secured jobs, and improved working conditions.
Tasks of the Team Leader:
PRUDEV promotes the agricultural-based development of the rural economy in selected districts of Northern Uganda. The target group of the project is the rural population with a focus on women and young people. It works in five complementary fields of action: i) strengthening of district governments, ii) SME support, iii) access to finance, iv) monitoring of climate emissions - the fifth field of action v) water for agricultural production falls under the responsibility of AFC/GOPA.
More than 85% of Ugandans live in rural areas. Despite this, agriculture contributes only 22% of Uganda’s overall domestic production, and food production barely satisfies the demand of the rapidly growing population. However, according to the 2016 Poverty Assessment, Uganda has reduced monetary poverty at a very rapid rate. The proportion of the Ugandan population living below the national poverty line declined from 31.1% in 2006 to 19.7% in 2013.
Uganda hat in den letzten Jahren aufgrund des wirtschaftlichen Wachstums große Fortschritte bei der Armutsreduzierung erzielt. Die durchschnittliche absolute Armutsrate ist von 54 Prozent im Jahr 2001 auf knapp 20 Prozent (2013) gefallen. 95 Prozent der Armen leben im ländlichen Raum. Die Mehrheit (76 Prozent) der Bevölkerung erwirtschaftet ihr Einkommen primär in kleinbäuerlicher Produktion in der Landwirtschaft.
Agriculture & Finance Consultants GmbH (AFC) is a private German consulting firm focusing on agriculture/agribusiness and financial sector development projects in developing and transition countries (https://www.afci.de/). We employ 55 permanent staff members at our headquarters in Bonn/Germany and on average contract 50 long-term and more than 730 short-term consultants throughout the year implementing projects for various donor organizations (e.g. EIB, KfW, GIZ, World Bank, AFD, EBRD).
In December 2004, Bank of Uganda (BoU) formulated a Policy Paper for the Establishment and Operation of Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) Services for supervised financial institutions in Uganda. BoU licensed only one provider, due to the small size of the Ugandan credit market at that time.
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