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UWEP

UWEP — Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme

Economic-empowerment programme equipping women's groups with capital and enterprise skills — bookkeeping, business planning, marketing — to grow incomes and create jobs. Framed around empowerment outcomes (women reached, jobs created, income uplift), with strong loan recovery as a secondary health indicator.

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Started

Economic empowerment for women

Implementing agency

MoGLSD

Interest p.a.

0%

Source

GoU

Fund size

UGX 107.15 bn

Disbursed

UGX 107.15 bn

Beneficiaries

198,248

Recoveries / reflows

UGX 74.22 bn

Repayments returned to the fund

Disbursed by financial year

Financial yearProjectsDisbursedBeneficiariesDisbursed share
2019/201,628UGX 6.4 bn19,346
2020/211,886UGX 11.8 bn22,865
2021/222,061UGX 17.1 bn24,916
2022/232,300UGX 22.5 bn27,691
2023/242,668UGX 23.6 bn32,044
2024/252,776UGX 25.7 bn33,356

Sector / activity breakdown

  • Agriculture & HorticultureUGX 32.8 bn
  • Food Processing & CateringUGX 19.5 bn
  • Tailoring & TextilesUGX 16.6 bn
  • Retail & VendingUGX 15.9 bn
  • Crafts & WeavingUGX 9.7 bn
  • Livestock & PoultryUGX 8.5 bn
  • Personal ServicesUGX 4.2 bn

Gender split

566,989Beneficiaries
Male
00.0%
Female
566,989100.0%

Computed across all financial years on record.

Regional distribution

RegionBeneficiariesAmountShare
Central38,433UGX 20.8 bn
19.4%
Western46,043UGX 25.0 bn
23.2%
Eastern54,946UGX 29.6 bn
27.7%
Northern58,826UGX 31.8 bn
29.7%

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