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The Second National Microfinance and Savings Groups Conference 2024 underway Kampala
KAMPALA, July 17, 2024: The Finance ministry together with stakeholders in the microfinance sector is holding the Second National Microfinance and Savings Groups Conference 2024 from 17th to 18th of July, 2024…
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AfDB’s sovereign portfolio retains top spot in 2024 Aid Transparency Index
ABIDJAN, July 17, 2024 – Publish What You Fund, the global campaign for aid and development transparency, has once again named the African Development Bank’s [AfDB] sovereign portfolio as the most transparent. The…
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International
ICBA signs MoU with Tilburg University to improve the data it holds on members
UTRECHT, July 13, 2024 – The International Cooperative Banking Association [ ICBA ] recently agreed a memorandum of understanding [MoU] with Tilburg University, to improve the quality and quantity of data it…
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Multilateral finance institutions win big at African Banker Awards 2024
KAMPALA, May 29, 2024 – The most prestigious event in the African banking calendar, the African Banker Awards Gala Ceremony 2024, took place last night at the JW Marriott Hotel in Nairobi,…
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Africa
New partnership aims to connect 300mln to electricity by 2030
KAMPALA, April 18, 2024 – The World Bank Group and African Development Bank Group are partnering on an ambitious effort to provide at least 300 million people in Africa with electricity access by…
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Dokolo residents advised to embrace livestock farming
DOKOLO, April 17, 2024 – Dr Rosemary Alwoc Ogwal, former contestant for Dokolo District Woman Member of Parliament has urged communities in the district to take up livestock keeping as the best…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira teachers’ SACCO in need of soft loan
LIRA, March 27, 2024 – Lira Primary and Secondary School Teachers SACCO needs a capital boost in the form of a soft loan to facilitate the lending business of the SACCO, according…
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Private sector credit dropped 0.7 percent in January 2024
KAMPALA, March 19, 2024 – The stock of outstanding private sector credit in Uganda reduced by 0.7 percent to Shs 21.54 trillion in January 2024, from Shs 21.70trn in December,2023, mainly explained…
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Cooperatives & Communities
MPs want PDM beneficiaries to have more access to banks
KAMPALA, November 23, 2023 – Members of Parliament have called for improved access to banking institutions to enable beneficiaries of the Parish Development Model [PDM] programme to receive funds. The MPs, who…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Agribusiness should benefit from the attention of banks and institutional donors, experts say
MARRAKESH, November 14, 2023 – Banks, institutional partners and the private sector should invest heavily in agribusiness in Africa, a sector that suffers from a financing gap just as it becomes the…
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