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SCOPE – Strengthening
the Competitiveness of Private Enterprise
SCOPE assists private sector leaders in
targeted subsectors to identify markets and set
market targets, develop market strategies and plans,
and work with the range of private and public sector
actors and resources needed to support achievement
of targets. SCOPE support to these market-driven
clusters can include providing secretariat support
for cluster initiatives, packaging strategic action
plans, facilitating participation from public and
private sector sources, leveraging access to financing,
forging linkages with foreign buyers and international
trade initiatives, attracting both local and foreign
investment. As a counterpart to its cluster development
activities, SCOPE’s intent is to work with
and through private sector led and market-driven
clusters, government agencies, subsector associations,
and other donor-funded efforts, to coalesce existing
initiatives into a sustainable framework of institutions
and capacities that will support achievement of
continued increases in competitiveness for Uganda
and Ugandan products in their target markets.
http://www.scopeuganda.org |
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SPEED - Support for Private Enterprise
Expansion and Development
Designed to meet the needs of microenterprises and
small and medium enterprises (SMEs), SPEED focuses
on access to finance and business skills development.
Through the SPEED Activity, USAID seeks to increase
access to financial services, create and expand
agricultural and non-agricultural enterprises, and
strengthen legal and regulatory frameworks for business
development in the SME and microfinance sectors.
Activities implemented under the four components
of the activity — SME finance, microfinance,
business development services (BDS), and institutional
environment — support these goals. |
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IDEA - Investment in Developing Export
Agriculture
IDEA is 9 year activity funded by USAID, with counterpart
contributions from the Government of Uganda (GoU).
The goal of the IDEA Activity is “to increase
rural household incomes through increased production
and marketing of selected non-traditional agricultural
exports (NTAEs) and selected food products.”
IDEA works to expand the production and exports
of low value (LV) but high volume food crops, such
as maize and beans, for regional markets; and of
high value (HV) but low volume NTAEs, such as cut
flowers, vanilla, fruits and vegetables, cocoa,
and papain, for international markets |
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PRIME –Productive Resource Investments
for Manageing the Environment/Western Region
PRIME is an integrated rural development program
in southwest Uganda. The contract comprises a 3-month
design effort and 51 months of implementation. The
goal is to bring southwest Uganda into the global
marketplace. The approach to PRIME merges landscape
analysis with economic competitiveness. Landscape
analysis is the systematic analytical and planning
process to examine specific economic opportunities
available to people in the southwest and then plan
interventions, direct resources, and monitor change.
Activities that degrade the environment and are
ultimately not sustainable do not make it past this
process. The second component, economic competitiveness,
ensures that activities are economically viable
at the household, community, and regional levels.
Competitiveness occurs when continually sustained
increases in productivity yield higher profits and
expanding sales and market share for the producers
and enterprises in the region. Competitiveness makes
the landscape approach realistic. While the landscape
approach tempers the need for economic growth with
an array of environmentally viable options. |
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DANIDA /ASPS – Agriculture Sector
Programme Support
The Agricultural Sector Programme Support (ASPS)
is a Uganda agricultural development Programme supported
by Danida. The Programme has its focus on poverty
reduction and household food security. It aims at
improving the livelihood of small-scale farmers
by increasing production in the rural areas. The
ASPS is targeting the agricultural sector in a broad
sense, providing assistance to a diversified number
of activities including agricultural education,
establishment of district agricultural training
and information centers, support for rural households,
assistance to livestock research, support to farms
organizations and the provision of rural financial
services. ASPS aims at mainstreaming gender in all
agricultural activities to effectively represent
and involve men and women as equal partners at all
levels in agricultural development.
http://www.aspsuganda.org/
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RATES - Regional Agriculture Trade Expansion
Support program
RATES is a five year program funded by USAID’s
regional office (REDSO) based in Nairobi. The RATES
program is designed to increase value/volume of
agricultural trade within the East and Southern
Africa region and between the region and the rest
of the world. RATES focuses on developing commodity-specific
regional trade initiatives through innovative private
sector/public sector alliances and partnerships
and works primarily through regional trade flow
leaders such as regional trade associations, national-level
trade organizations, private companies and individual
entrepreneurs. RATES is currently supporting activities
in specialty coffee, maize and pulses, cotton/textiles,
livestock and dairy sectors.
http://www.ratescenter.org/ |
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VANEX -
VANEX promotes further development of the vanilla
industry in Uganda. VANEX is a private-sector association
of Ugandan small farmers and processors dedicated
to increasing the incomes of its members and maintaining
the quality of Ugandan vanilla.
http://www.ugandavanilla.org |
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UFEA - Uganda Flower Exporters Association
UFEA was established in 1995 and consists of 18
flower exporters. With assistance from IDEA Project,
the individual exporters formed an organised body
that is recognised nationally and internationally.
The offices are located 25 miles from Kampala, on
Masaka road at Nsimbe Estates. The flower Industry
consists of cut flowers and cuttings. Roses are
the major flower exports in the country. There are
26 rose varieties of which sweetheart roses are
commonly grown and yield better than the T-hybrids
due to adaptability to the climate. Production from
sweetheart roses ranges between 250-300 stems per
square-metre, while T-hybrid roses yield 110-150
stems per square-metre. Cuttings consist of Chrysanthemums
and Celosia. They grow well in the Ugandan climate.
Most flower farms are located in Mpigi district
near Lake Victoria and on the way to Entebbe airport.
A few farms are located in Mukono district. By the
end of 2001, there were 80 hectares under flower
and hectarage in 2002 was 140 hectares.
http://www.ugandahort.com/ufea/ufeadefault.htm |
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UGTL - Uganda Grain Traders Ltd
Plot M193/194 Nakawa Industrial Area.
P.O. Box 7341 Kampala
Tel: (256) 41 220 932/27
Fax: (256) 41 220 926
E-mail: graintraders@infocom.co.ug
http://www.
ugandagrains.com |
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UCDA – Uganda Coffee Development
Authority
The Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) was
established by the Coffee Statute 1991 as amended
in 1994, with a statutory mandate:
"To
promote and oversee the coffee industry by developing
research, controlling quality, improving the market
and to provide for other matters connected therewith".
UCDA is a parastatal that falls under the Ministry
of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF).
http://www.ugandacoffee.org/ |
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