Enhancing Economic Opportunities
Climate-smart agriculture practices, training and extension services, access to production and processing technologies, value addition support, and co-workspaces.
African Women Agribusiness Network Uganda
AWAN Uganda is a membership-based enterprise support organization advancing women entrepreneurs, women-owned SMEs, producer groups, and cooperatives through stronger market systems.
3,000
Members across agri-food value chains
9
Priority value chains
4
Strategic priorities
Uganda + regional reach
Market-facing footprint
Mission
Economic empowerment of women through building gender and nutrition-sensitive value chains.
Vision
Inclusive agrifood systems that work for all.
AWAN Uganda is a membership-based enterprise support organization advancing women entrepreneurs, women-owned SMEs, producer groups, and cooperatives through stronger market systems.
Strategic priorities
We strengthen the conditions women-led agribusinesses need to grow, compete, and reach formal markets.
Enhanced economic opportunities for women
Women access formal markets
Women access responsive financial services
An enabling environment for women-led enterprises
What AWAN delivers
From enterprise development to financial inclusion and market linkages, AWAN supports women-led businesses across the value chain.
Climate-smart agriculture practices, training and extension services, access to production and processing technologies, value addition support, and co-workspaces.
Financing readiness, financial literacy, bankable business plans, and stronger connections between women-led enterprises and financial service providers.
Branding and marketing training, local and international exhibitions, and direct linkages to formal domestic and export markets.
Engagement with public and government actors to improve gender-inclusive policies, products, and services.
Enterprise outcomes
Women-led enterprises should not only survive. They should become profitable, job-creating, market-making businesses.
Value chains
AWAN works across priority value chains that connect women producers and enterprises to stronger commercial opportunities.
Projects
Explore AWAN's active initiatives supporting export readiness, market access, nutrition-sensitive enterprise growth, and climate-smart infrastructure.
WEAP
Trade support partnership
Builds the capacity of women MSMEs to access international markets in Canada, America, and Europe through trade facilitation, buyer missions, and market linkages.
Incubator
Supported by Oxfam
Supports women in refugee-hosting districts in West Nile through skills development, financial literacy, and market linkages.
WCW
Graca Machel Trust
AWAN Uganda develops strategies that increase access to markets for women MSMEs in Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and South Africa.
WICER
Supported by ENABEL
Builds the capacity of women SMEs to export to EU markets in ways that are sustainable and respectful of decent work and human rights.