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Impact

Impact and results

What changed for the businesses we worked with.

Headline results from our programme profiles, one card per programme. Each links to the full profile with the method, the cohort and what participants told us.

FAO Uganda

FAO Woodpreneurs

2026

28wood-based SMEs incubated
4practical training modules
1export order secured, to Zambia

Incubating wood-based SMEs under the Sustainable Wood-Based Value Chains project, through records, business plans, financial plans and pitch decks.

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AFAWA, African Development Bank

WEEP: Women Entrepreneurship Enablers Programme

2026 to 2029

300women-owned SMEs across Uganda, Nigeria and Burundi
125SMEs in the Uganda cohort
120SMEs targeted for formal credit

Investment readiness, mentoring and bankable business plans for women-owned businesses, delivered with REBi and referred on to financial institutions.

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Uganda Green Finance Accelerator

UGEFA: Uganda Green Finance Accelerator

2019 to date

25+green enterprises supported
6+financed by Ugandan institutions
11GoGreen cohort enterprises matched to lenders

Strengthening green businesses, improving investment readiness and facilitating access to green finance across mixed cohorts.

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Ashden Climate Solutions

THEA: refugee-led green enterprises

2026

9refugee-led enterprises supported
70new jobs reported
UGX 267.5Min new funding raised

Mentorship combining business planning, financial management, governance and sales support for refugee-led green businesses.

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NIRAS, financed by RVO

Energy Enterprise Coach

2025

12clean energy enterprises trained
93%average module rating
60%+of time on hands-on practice

Three-day training and a month of one-to-one coaching for clean-cooking and off-grid energy SMEs in Uganda.

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Self Help Africa

Self Help Africa: business skills training

2025

15project and partner staff trained
14 / 15run a farm or side business themselves
15 / 15submitted business plans for review

Equipping project and partner staff in Adjumani to coach smallholder farmers and micro-grant recipients to run their ventures as businesses.

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CURAD under the EU-funded MOBIP project

CURAD and MOBIP: beef value chain

2021

20beef value chain entrepreneurs trained
50%of participants were women
4value chain sectors covered

Business modelling and planning for youth, women and farmers running pasture, fodder, tree nursery and climate-smart agriculture enterprises.

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Renewable Energy Business Incubator (REBi)

REBi: renewable energy start-ups

2021 to 2022

16clean energy start-ups supported
36% to 85%average business plan rating
41% to 84%average pitch deck rating

Due diligence, business plans, financial models, sales coaching and pitch decks for enterprises in REBi’s clean energy incubator.

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SENDEA, with KII-Impact

SENDEA: renewable energy business models

2024

4days of training in Kampala
100%rated the facilitators 4 or 5 out of 5
13 / 14said no session was irrelevant

Four days with finance staff and executives from Uganda’s local solar companies, building Business Model Canvases and business plans for decentralised renewable energy ventures.

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Grow Movement

Imuka-Grow Program

2016 to 2020

120+entrepreneurs mentored over five years
USD 270Kwon in prizes and investment
1+new job in most participating businesses

Structured mentorship pairing Ugandan entrepreneurs with mentors in the United States and Europe on business development, access to finance and growth.

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REBi

ClimateLaunchpad Accelerator

2021 to 2025

80+climate innovators supported since 2021
30% to 85%business plan and investor memo rating
80%+final rating in every area assessed

Five weeks of training and one-to-one coaching that turn early-stage climate innovations into investor-ready businesses.

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