Published: 01 February 2022

Currently, 122 green small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are supported with capacity building to prepare to access finance. UGEFA has received over 1900 registrations for the programme and is proud to collaborate with 122 selected green enterprises from the five sectors of green manufacturing, clean energy, sustainable transport, waste management and sustainable tourism across Uganda.

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Published: 15 December 2021

On 09 December 2021, the Green Finance Dialogue Forum 2021 brought together 130 financiers, policy-makers, enterprise support organisations and green businesses to explore pathways for expanding access to finance and capacity building for green SMEs across sectors. The forum focused on the theme: "The Future of Finance is Green: Leveraging SMEs for Uganda's Green Growth". The forum was fully funded by the European Union.

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Published: 15 December 2021

The second group of UGEFA-supported SMEs started the hands-on interactive Catalyser workshops, where enterprises work with peers on key topics for financial readiness and growth and benefit from expert business advisory. These workshops, for 8 groups of around 10 SMEs, are running from September 2021 to February 2022. UGEFA Business Advisors are passionate to support green enterprises scale up their businesses.

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Published: 13 December 2021

The Green Finance Academy Trainings and Innovation Lab – a collaborative partnership between the Uganda Green Enterprise Finance Accelerator (UGEFA), Uganda Bankers’ Association (UBA), SEED Practitioner Labs Climate Finance and GO4SDGs – offers an exclusive opportunity to commercial banks in Uganda with key ecosystem actors to strengthen the financial sector’s capacity to successfully finance green small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and environmental-related projects. Trainings with innovation lab will run from December 2021 - March 2022. The Academy is funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

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