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Business Support Organisations

Total results: 32

Service Sort Service Provider Type of Service Target Social Groups Target Sectors Business Maturity Minimum Business Eligibility
Favourite "Support to Innovative training (Window 3) Skills shortage in informal sector (Window 2)
Private Sector Foundation Uganda
  • Not For Profit
  • Advisory services or training
  • Business development support service
  • Enterprises delivering services
  • Enterprises manufacturing products
  • Enterprises trading internationally
  • All sectors
  • Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Stable business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Must have been in existence for at least two years.
  • Must have a track record of delivery of labour market relevant quality skills training.
  • Applicant must indicate planned follow up activities intended to ease the trainee’s entry into the labour market.
  • Provide the methodology for post-training monitoring and evaluation to ascertain the effectiveness or otherwise of the training provided.   
African Fine Coffees Associatoion
  • Business development support service
  • Accelerator or Incubator
  • Enterprises trading internationally
  • Farmers' cooperatives
  • Agriculture
  • Agri-food and Agri-business
  • Stable business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Legible members must be in the coffee growing, value chain or processing and baristas.
  • They must be operating in member countries.
Agriterra
  • Business development support service
  • Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups
  • Financial accounting or Fiscal training/advisory/preparation service
  • Farmers' cooperatives
  • Agriculture
  • Agri-food and Agri-business
  • Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

Agriterra targets those cooperatives or other farmer owned enterprises, who are ambitious, have good management, who want to professionalize their performance, who are ready for change and who have plans to invest in order to expand their business. 

Favourite Agribusiness Entreprenurship Training (ABET)
Enterprise Uganda
  • Business development support service
  • Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups
  • Farmers' cooperatives
  • Agri-food and Agri-business
  • Agriculture

Farmers both women and men

Federation of Uganda Employers
  • Not For Profit
  • Advisory services or training
  • Business development support service
  • Not for profit community and social enterprises
  • Individual farmers and farming communities
  • Enterprises delivering services
  • Enterprises trading internationally
  • Enterprises manufacturing products
  • Artisanal enterprises or communities
  • All sectors
  • Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales

Membership subscription, Enterprises employing people

Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI)
  • Not For Profit
  • Accelerator or Incubator
  • Government enterprise or a government agency
  • Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
  • Enterprises manufacturing products
  • Enterprises trading internationally
  • Enterprises delivering services
  • All sectors
  • Start-up business, Not registered, No regular sales
  • The entrepreneur should have a technology led innovation.
  • The idea should still be at early stage.
Uganda Registration Services Bureau
  • Government enterprise or a government agency
  • Business development support service
  • Enterprises manufacturing products
  • Enterprises trading internationally
  • Enterprises delivering services
  • All sectors
  • Start-up business, Not registered, No regular sales
  • Stable business, Not yet registered, Regular sales

Business must be operating in Uganda and operating under the legal standards of the country

Favourite Business counselling and advisory service Business Startup Tool BEST
Enterprise Uganda
  • Business development support service
  • Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups
  • Advisory services or training
  • Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
  • Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
  • All sectors
  • Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Stable business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Stable business, Registered, Audited accounts
  • MSMEs.
  • Youth 18 - 35 years 
Yunus Social Business Uganda
  • Accelerator or Incubator
  • Business development support service
  • Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups
  • Not for profit community and social enterprises
  • All sectors
  • Start-up business, Not registered, No regular sales
  • Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales

Social businesses founded by a disadvantaged population or serving as a the primary customers.

Ministry of Trade Industry and cooperatives
  • Business development support service
  • Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups
  • Enterprises manufacturing products
  • Tourism & travel services
  • Trading services
  • Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

Organizations and cooperatives boosting trade and tourism at grass-root level.

KACITA Uganda
  • Business development support service
  • Accelerator or Incubator
  • Artisanal enterprises or communities
  • Enterprises delivering services
  • Enterprises manufacturing products
  • Enterprises trading internationally
  • All sectors

Business must fall in category of traders
Business must be operating in Uganda

Ministry of Trade Industry and cooperatives
  • Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups
  • Advisory services or training
  • All sectors
  • Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

Private sector companies that deal in international trade.

Favourite East African Youth Inclusion Program (EAYIP)
Kilimo Trust
  • Accelerator or Incubator
  • Business development support service
  • Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups
  • Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
  • Agri-food and Agri-business
  • Agriculture
  • Start-up business, Not registered, No regular sales
  • Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Stable business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Stable business, Not yet registered, Regular sales

Economically disadvantaged young men and women (aged 15-24years) in Uganda and Tanzania.

Action for Fundamental Change and Development(AFFCAD)
  • Business development support service
  • Accelerator or Incubator
  • Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
  • All sectors

Youth economic empowerment programming provides employable skills, incentives, mentorship and connections that enable disadvantaged youth in Kampala's slums to transit from lives of crime and poverty to lives of productive occupation.

Uganda Investment Authority
  • Accelerator or Incubator
  • Enterprises manufacturing products
  • Enterprises trading internationally
  • Enterprises delivering services
  • All sectors
  • Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

Business is required to be in first stages of early development and an expanding MSME

PUM Netherlands Senior Experts
  • Not For Profit
  • Advisory services or training
  • Business development support service
  • Enterprises manufacturing products
  • Enterprises trading internationally
  • Enterprises delivering services
  • Healthcare, pharmaceuticals and bio-pharmaceuticals
  • Stable business, Registered, Audited accounts, > 10 employees
  • Company must be privately owned.
  • Over 50% of ownership of the company is in local hands.
  • The company needs to be operational for at least two years .
  • The company has between 10 and 250 employees.
  • Both the annual turnover and the balance sheet total should not exceed 10 million euros.
  • Organisations that are not SMEs (business support organisations, Chambers of Commerce etc.) can apply, but only if they have an enabling role for the private sector.
Collateral Managment International (pty) Ltd
  • Business development support service
  • Individual farmers and farming communities
  • Enterprises trading internationally
  • Trading services
  • Agriculture
  • Stable business, Registered, Audited accounts

All businesses that face high risks in their operations

Growth Africa
  • Accelerator or Incubator
  • Business development support service
  • Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
  • Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
  • Agri-food and Agri-business
  • Education, training, academia
  • Information technology and IT enabled services
  • Consumer goods retail and distribution
  • Renewable energy
  • Healthcare: Personal protective equipment and consumables
  • Healthcare: medical care, hospitals and care infrastructure
  • Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

• For profit, post revenue business.
• The business must have full time and dedicated core team.
• The business should have existed for two or more years.
• The business should have a full-time founding team.
• Business turnover USD of 50,000 plus.
• Business should be open to raising external investment

Swisscontact Uganda
  • Business development support service
  • Government enterprise or a government agency
  • Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
  • Agri-food and Agri-business
  • Construction, raw materials & services
  • Tourism & travel services
  • Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

Targets disadvantaged youths between the ages of 18 and 24 years from families living below or slightly above the national poverty line of US$ 1.90. 

Favourite National ICT Iniatives Support Program (NIISP)
Ministry of ICT and National Guidance
  • Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
  • Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
  • All sectors
  • Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Stable business, Registered, Regular sales
  • Individuals can apply if they are Ugandan.
  • You can apply collectively as a group and at least one of the members is a Ugandan citizen.
  • Any Ugandan company can apply but must be fully licensed to operate in Uganda.
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