Posted By
Jacob Olanya
in AgriProFocus Uganda
Posted 26 July 2016 at 08:53
Final report Livestock Finance Fair 2016 - Mbarara
AgriProFocus Innovation Community on Access to Finance in partnership with Mbarara District Farmers Association (MBADIFA), SNV, GIZ AGRUFIN, The Hunger Project, Agritera, Trias, TIDE Project–SNV, AMFIU, organized a regional finance fair in Mbarara, Western Uganda with objectives of providing a platform for building business links and brokering deals between farmer entrepreneurs in the livestock sector and financial service providers as well as jointly find solutions to other challenges in the livestock value chain.
The event attracted a total of 280 participants 180 male and 100 female. Total number of exhibitors (Financial service providers and Value chain actors) was 21 of which 6 were Banks, 7 were SACCOs, 5 were insurance companies and 4 were Value chain actors. Deals made for flow up were 225. Online registration got 77 individuals of which 58 subscribed to the Agricultural and Rural financial platform.
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Posted By
Jacob Olanya
in AgriProFocus Uganda
Posted 18 July 2016 at 10:17
Livestock Finance Fair - Summary Report
DATE: 22nd – 23rd June 2016
VENUE: Mbarara Catholic Social Centre
AgriProFocus Innovation Community on Access to Finance in partnership with Mbarara District Farmers Association (MBADIFA), SNV, GIZ AGRUFIN, The Hunger Project, Agritera, Trias, TIDE Project–SNV, AMFIU, organized a regional finance fair in Mbarara, Western Uganda with objectives of providing a platform for building business links and brokering deals between farmer entrepreneurs in the livestock sector and financial service providers as well as jointly find solutions to other challenges in the livestock value chain.
The event attracted a total of 280 participants 180 male and 100 female. Total number of exhibitors (Financial service providers and Value chain actors) was 21 of which 6 were Banks, 7 were SACCOs, 5 were insurance companies and 4 were Value chain actors. Deals made for flow up were 225. Online registration got 77 individuals of which 58 subscrib
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Nicole Metz Thank you Jacob and co-organisers for sharing the outcomes of this event with us! The report is clear and timely. Good to know that financial service providers and other value chain actors used the opportunity to make deals!
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Posted By
Janine Schoeman
in AgriProFocus Netherlands
Posted 13 June 2016 at 06:58
AgriProFocus Network Results 2015: Finance Fairs
Example: Mbale, Uganda
The Regional Finance Fair was organized with the Hunger Project, AMFIU, GIZ, SNV, Feed the Future, VECO and Financial Access. It attracted close to 400 participants and 30 exhibitors. A pre-event for 40 producer organisations increased their preparedness and confidence to interact with financial service providers. 15 of them made deals with Centenary Bank, Opportunity Bank and Pride Micro-Finance.
Since 2013 AgriProFocus collaborates with GIZ and Bank of Uganda to disseminate the Finance Year Book. The book features sub-sector oriented developments and information on the development of the agri-sector in general including access to finance.
During the Mbale finance fair, half of the first day was dedicated to disseminating this information in the form of a workshop.
More network results can be found in our Annual Report 2015! Click HERE
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The 2015 Finance Fair-Mbale: Farming: a Paying Business!!
Event posted by
Mugisha Richard
in AgriProFocus Uganda
22 October 2015
to 23 October 2015 -
All Day Event
Maluku Council Hall –Mbale District
Farmer entrepreneurship has been underscored as an important competence that farmers will need to drive themselves out of poverty. This idea recognizes that Agriculture which employs over 75% of Uganda’s population will not lead to the annual 6% sector growth (Malabo declaration June 2014), unlike farmers take on a business mind-set as opposed to current subsistence form of farming in the sub-Saharan Africa.
However; majority still practice subsistence farming with associated barriers, and still consider farming as a way of life with limited prospects of fostering their efforts to break the rhetoric. There is therefore; need to bridge the gap by facilitating a business to finance interactions and relationships for improved productivity and profitability.
It’s against such a background that the AgriProFocus Innovation Community on Access to Finance in partnership with The Hunger Project (THP), Association of Microfinance Institutions of Uganda (AMFIU), GIZ, SNV and other partners is org
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