The coffee growers of Mount Elgon are just one example of Uganda's growing organic sector. In 2005, the value of organic exports was over $6 million. Yet many European importers are nervous about getting involved in business in Africa. Establishing the first connection face to face can improve trust between the parties. ITC provides support to the organic sector in Uganda, and in late April it set up a Buyers' Tour with the National Organic Agricultural Movement of Uganda. Seven European buyers interested in importing organic products from Uganda met exporters, farmers and key stakeholders in the organic sector during a five-day tour around the country. In Uganda there is high demand for organic products. Organics also help smallholders into the export market, as they can share the cost...
Uganda has enjoyed strong annual growth in exports in recent years and has made progress in diversifying its export base. However, much needs to be done if it is to realize by 2012 its National Export Strategy targets of increasing annual revenue to $5 billion per year (from around $1.8 billion), achieving a 16% contribution to gross domestic product and raising the per capita export ratio to $200 (from $82). A simple vision was articulated: "a dynamic and competitive export sector with more participation of women". The benefits of addressing gender consideration were seen as fundamental to ensuring adequate buy-in of the stakeholders. It was also stressed that there should be a balance of men and women in the stakeholder team.
Governments conduct negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services, but in practice it is businesses that trade. In least developed countries like Uganda, it is small firms that trade the most. "SMEs" in Uganda are not simply small and medium-sized enterprises, but small and micro enterprises. Because of their size, they can only influence trade negotiations through coalitions with firms that have similar features and challenges. Their effectiveness depends on the number and variety of the membership of such coalitions. When SME coalitions are seen to enrich the negotiations' menu with useful resources, there is no reason to exclude SME businesses from taking part in trade negotiations. In 1999, when Uganda's trade negotiations framework, the Inter Institutional Trade Commit...
Business processes that historically were kept inside the firm, such as accounting and similar paperwork, are increasingly being outsourced to places where costs are cheaper and back-office operations can be provided all day, every day, to keep up with commercial transactions. In Canada, Wall & Associates, an accounting company providing services to small businesses and independent professionals, had been processing most paperwork manually. It decided to try to increase its client base by providing online access to data entry. In 2001, the Uganda Investment Authority came to Wall while investigating outsourcing opportunities for its country's firms. As a result, Wall & Associates sent a mission to Uganda to explain outsourcing opportunities. Following training sessions in 2002 a...
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In Uganda, the Good African Coffee company, in conjunction with ITC, is demonstrating how public-private partnership can make a significant impact on low-income rural communities. About 85% of Ugandans are farmers, but only a small percentage of Uganda's gross domestic product comes from agriculture due to lack of access to markets, poor export strategies and crude farming techniques. In 2007 the Ugandan public and private sectors launched their National Export Strategy and identified organic production as a promising market opportunity for smallholders who traditionally had the most precarious livelihoods and lowest incomes. Following on from this, in 2009 ITC's Trade and Environment Program helped more than 2,000 smallholder coffee farmers, mostly women, to convert to organic producti...
In 2008, ITC approached leaders in the fashion community and distributors in Italy and in the UK to test the potential market for bags and accessories produced in Africa. The aim was to build a direct connection with a major fashion house. Creative Director of Max&Co, Luisa Laudi, decided to use some of the samples of materials presented to develop a small collection of bags and scarves. Further samples were required from Uganda and Kenya, involving field missions to select the communities to produce them. Product development through an ethical fashion team was instigated in order to select the final groups of micro manufacturers. A group of 250 single women living on the outskirts of Dagoretti was chosen, together with a group of informal producers from Korogocho, near Nairobi. The...
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Poverty and severely limited means of generating income force many internally displaced women into abusive trades such as prostitution and trafficking. In internally displaced people camps in Uganda, for example, many girls and women engage in survival sex to obtain food or "transactional sex" in exchange for spending money or small objects. These women are given no opportunities to further their education, engage in businesses or develop self-respect. Women for Women International works to help women recover from the ravages of war and become active citizens by offering them direct aid, job training and microcredit loans. Ugandan-American Amber Chand is doing her bit to put war-affected women back to work and start their own businesses. She runs the US-based Amber Chand Collection, an ...
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