GOVERNMENT ADVISES SMALL SCALE WOMEN ENTREPRENUERES TO SEEK ALTERNATIVES TO GROW PROJECT

Women entrepreneurs in a group photo with grow leaders after their engagement in Muni University, seated in a white T-shirt is Henry Ekwang (Northern region project officer)

By Sunday Amandi
Arua city

The women in West Nile region who are unable to access the funds under the GROW project are encouraged to make use of the other government poverty alleviating initiatives to uplift their businesses.

The GROW ,Generating Growth Opportunities and Productivity for Women Enterprises, project in Uganda is a government initiative aimed at increasing access to entrepreneurial services and supporting women entrepreneurs in growing their businesses. 

Funded by the World Bank and implemented by the Ministry of Gender, Labor, and Social Development in collaboration with the Private Sector Foundation Uganda ,and it focuses on providing tailored support to women entrepreneurs in both host and refugee communities. 

In West Nile, women have been actively participating in various government-led poverty eradication initiatives, though challenges remain, but it has been a hurdle for most of them to access the funds under the grow project, as applicants are required to provide documentation proving business ownership and operation.

While talking to women at an engagement about the project in Muni university, Henry Ekwang, the Northern region project officer for grow under the ministry of gender, labor and social development calls on those who are unable to fast make use of the other initiatives.

“There are projects that can solve the problem of the people who need one million, five hundred thousand, and the rest. One of them is Emyoga, UWEP, PDM in which you can access, “Henry said,

He clarifies that, in order to make the money accessible to the local women entrepreneurs, government has decided to make its access in to zones to bring it closer.
Grow loan can only be accessed in the commercial banks of Stanbic, DFCU, Equity, Finance Trust Bank, Centenary bank, and Post bank.