In partnership with UNFPA and the Government of Uganda, we are running multiple innovation challenges that seek to support young people establish social businesses that address challenges in sexual reproductive health by building youth friendly services or products. We provide them with mentorship, seed funding, and training to enable them build out their businesses.
We are leveraging a series of hackathons and incubation to support young entrepreneurs that are using mobile technologies to solve social challenges in Health, Education, Finance, Agriculture and Media & Entertainment.
We are implementing a series of 3-month boot camps for individuals with limited or no experience in software development to acquire the skills needed to build their own businesses or succeed in the workplace.
Through our community of female champions, we organise talks and trainings geared towards growing and upskilling the number of women and girls in technology.
Three winners of the Health Supply Chain Solutions Challenge were named during Uganda’s National Health Supply Chain Week (July 26–30, 2021). The winners were selected from a pool of more than 130 concepts presented to the competition’s judges.
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2019/2020 ranked Uganda one of the most entrepreneurial countries in the world with 30 per cent of Ugandans starting businesses annually.
In the United States of America and Japan, that figure stands at 7 per cent and 11 per cent respectively.
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