Awan Uganda

Projects

Projects

Projects

The Women in Agribusiness Mentorship Training Programme (2013-2017) with support from Trade Chamber Sweden. The programme has achieved the following achievements:

    1. 230 women entrepreneurs mentored to grow their businesses
    2. 5 women entrepreneurs have accessed sustainable export markets
    3. 3.5 new jobs have been created per mentored entrepreneur
    4. 150 new business opportunities for women at the bottom of the pyramid created
    5. 75% of the mentees reported increased revenue
    6. 40% of the mentees reported access to new lines of financing.
      Agri-Insurance Training for Women Entrepreneurs with support from UAP Uganda. 56 women entrepreneurs were training in utilizing insurance in carrying out agribusinesses.

    The Green Technology Training with the theme “Turning Green Business into Profit” with support from Trade Chamber Sweden. 56 women entrepreneurs were trained and supported to establish green
    businesses.


    Training women entrepreneurs in Export business readiness: 200 women were trained in export business, 5 are exporting.


    Trade mission to Sweden and Norway with support from Trade Chamber Sweden and Virke: 7 women from the region visited the two countries and meet buyers of fruits and vegetables.

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Market Access Project for Smallholder Farmers (MAPS)

With support from Dunchurch Aid Uganda (DCA), AWAN Uganda is implementing the Market Access Project for smallholder farmers (MAPS) with the main objective of improving household incomes of smallholder farmers in Eastern Uganda through linkages to formal markets. The project is being implemented in Kapelebyong, Katakwi and Amuria Districts in Teso Sub-region, Eastern Uganda using a value chain approach where smallholder farmers are linked to off-takers such as exporters, agro-processors and large-scale aggregators. The project aims at achieving two outcomes:

  1. Increased production of market-oriented value crops among smallholder farmers in Eastern Uganda.
  2. Increased access to lucrative formal markets by smallholder farmers in Eastern Uganda through linkages to formal markets in one year

 

 

Improving the performance of fruits and vegetables value chain through the promotion of solar powered cold storage technologies.

With support from GIZ-Energizing Development Programme (EnDev), AWAN Uganda is promoting the usage of solar cooling systems among women in horticulture. The project involves the following activities:

  1. Piloting a solar powered cold room. The cooling unit was tested from Ntinda New Market, Nakawa Division, Kampala. The pilot cooling unit is being used for demonstration and training of potential users especially women aggregators, storage service providers, producer groups, vendors and exporters operating in horticulture value chains.
  2. Testing of Pay-as-you-go model for women entrepreneurs to offer cold storage as a service. This will be promoted to enable vendors and aggregators access to the storage facilities at an affordable user fee as opposed to procuring the cooling system.

 

Outcomes

  1. Reduce post-harvest losses of women smallholder producers, aggregators and venders of fruits and vegetables for differentiated markets by 20% in one year.
  2. Improve the profitability of women led enterprises involved in aggregation and supply of fruits and vegetables to differentiated local and export markets by 20%.
  3. Increased uptake of solar cooling technologies in horticulture value chains

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