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GROW Project is a government of Uganda five-years project financed by International Development Agency (IDA) under a grant financing arrangement of USD 217million. The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to increase access to entrepreneurial services that enable female entrepreneurs to grow their enterprises in targeted locations, including refugees host districts.

A quick reference guide and financing decision trees for MSMEs, developed by the International Trade Centre under the East African Community MARKUP project, funded by the European Union.

3.1: Community financing providers of low-value financing.

3.2: Short-term equipment, pre-shipment, sales order or working capital financing.

3.3: Term loans through banks and non-bank financing providers.

3.4: Bank and non-bank short-term supply chain financing options.

3.5: Key enterprise loan regulatory considerations for banks.

3.6: What is “Collateral” and what are its implications for your business?

3.7: Asset valuation: enterprise and lender perspective.

3.8: What are “Covenants” and how do they affect your business?

4.1: Business communications and visibility.

4.2: Loan performance and reporting communication norms.

4.3: References and customer feedback.

5.1: What to optimize before drafting your business plan.

5.2: Risk assessments: supply chain vulnerabilities, sustainability and resilience.

5.3: Resilience and business continuity plans and measures.

5.4: Product and service authenticity, traceability, quality & labeling compliance.

5.5: Drafting a realistic business plan.

5.6: Market, business growth and revenue projections with references.

5.7: Typical errors and practices that result in application rejections.

5.8: Digitisation and the implications for financing options.

All financing providers, financing transactions operators and investors are required to collect at a minimum the following set of basic information on applicants for, or beneficiaries of, financing of more than Euro/USD 2,500 in any one year.

COVID workplace measures and financing.

Find out which online payment solution is suitable for your business depending on your location and sales channel.

Digital lending is expanding rapidly across markets with significant mobile money or mobile banking penetration. And as with all financial services, access and utilization patterns differ by gender. Some digital lending may have the potential to overcome gender biases. For example, borrowers can request a loan from anywhere, avoiding some transaction costs that are particularly burdensome for women. It can standardize processes to avoid the human biases of loan officers. Lenders can work around gender biases stemming from the use of titled land as collateral by assessing creditworthiness on alternative data sources such as cash flows.