Welcome to Enterprise Uganda - Your One-stop Enterprise Development Centre

Enterprise Uganda - Helping People Succeed in Business.

Enterprise Uganda Foundation Limited (EUg) is public-private institution designed to support the government in realizing its objective of promoting the development of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) to become the main vehicle for expanding production, providing sustainable jobs and enhancing economic growth.

Our vision is to be a centre of excellence for the creation and the nurturing of a globally competitive private sector in Uganda.

It was established under a framework of the UNDP Enterprise Africa regional initiative. A consortium of local and international donors including UNDP Uganda, Enterprise Africa, UNCTAD, Norway, Sweden and the Government of Uganda is promoting it. Its concept is based on UNCTAD's Empretec Programme Model currently operating in 32 countries in Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. The Empretec model is designed as one-stop programme, which provides an integrated and comprehensive range of business support services for SMEs using a hands-on approach.

 Whom do we work with?

• Business people (entrepreneurs) whose businesses are not  getting the desired business results because of internal challenges that they may not know how to handle them;

• Enterprises that have reached the stage of fast business expansion but are not able to cope with the challenges of growth;

• Enterprises that may have benefited from specific grants or credit facilities and are seeking assistance to make effective use of such facilities;

• Promoters of start-up enterprises  who have developed great bankable business proposals but are frustrated in getting them implemented; and

• Professionals  considering starting their own enterprises

What Enterprise Uganda can do for you

We Help People Succeed in Business. An important element for promoting enterprise development is to have a suitable enabling environment for business creation, survival and growth.  The enabling environment refers, among other things, to policy and regulatory issues, to infrastructure, and to financial and business development services.

Enterprise Uganda provides an integrated and comprehensive range of business development services (BDS) such as entrepreneurship training, business advisory and counseling service, information, business planning, marketing, technology, business linkages and other services to assist both start ups and existing businesses to resolve their problems and prepare plans for growth using a hands-on approach.. BDS are often perceived as being useful in complementing credit and micro-finance programmes, and in assisting small enterprises with growth potential to become medium-sized enterprises.   

Our Philosophy

The empretec model we use starts by focusing on the entrepreneur as an individual. On the basis of written applications and focused interviews, a given number of participants are taken through a two-week intensive entrepreneurship training workshop (ETW) . The workshop modules were designed around the 10 Habits - personal entrepreneurial competencies  consistently demonstrated by successful entrepreneurs the world over after  a five-year research carried out by two United States Management Consulting firms – Management Systems International (MSI) and McBer & Company for USAID.

In the selection of target beneficiaries, emphasis is given to existing companies with growth potential. Further, since women form a significant part of the workforce in Uganda, special attention is given to women entrepreneurs who are expected to constitute at least 40% of direct beneficiaries of Enterprise Uganda’s services.

For existing companies, the Post-Training process starts with an incisive Business Health-check (BHC) or diagnostic study being conducted for each company. This activity is designed to ‘X-ray’ the operations of the company in critical areas such as business concept, production/operation process, financial management, staffing and marketing, to determine areas of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. On the basis of a Status Report on the “health” of the company, a range of Enterprise Uganda’s business solutions are provided based on each firm's unique circumstances to nurture beneficiary companies into globally competitive enterprises.

For start-ups, the Post-Training process begins with a Business Opportunity Identification exercise intended to assist trainees who do not have an existing business to identify and analyse a variety of business opportunities and interests. Each entrepreneur is taken through a process of Idea Generation, Idea Screening and Testing, Business Profiling and Idea Selection. At the end of this exercise, the entrepreneur will be able to decide on the specific business venture to develop.

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Mr. James Mulwana

Chairman Advisory Board

Charles Ocici

Executive Director

Rosemary Mutyabule

Director Business Advisory & Consultancy Services

Eriab Kiiza

Director Training

Mary Odongo

Director Finance & Administration

George Oumo

Director Information & Communications Technology