The 10th in a series of AFYBs, the 2020 Yearbook focuses on Agricultural Finance Policy and Strategy, Innovation and Research, Value Chain Financing; as well as Investment in the agricultural sector. The urgent need to digitalise financial service delivery in Uganda is raised in almost all the articles in this [...]
As aBi implements the new aBi Business Plan 2019-2023, there is need to constantly update and improve understanding of the agribusiness and financial services sectors, of specific VCs and technical and financial innovations relevant to its business. aBi believes that customers’ opinions and feedback are one of the most essential [...]
The agricultural sector in Uganda faces increasing incidence of prolonged drought and unreliable rainfall attributed to climate change resulting into decline in agricultural productivity and household incomes. However, Uganda has an irrigation potential estimated at about 3,030,000 ha with only less than 1% currently exploited by less than 1% of [...]
Determine to what extent and how the financial instruments of aBi Finance have impacted on theagricultural lending policies, appetite, efficiencies and culture of participating FIs over time, and the composition and quality of their loan portfolio Download Report [...]
The Agribusiness Initiative (aBi) is one of the three components of the U-Growth Programme aimed at supporting agribusiness development in the private and agricultural sector to achieve the objective of the Government of Uganda’s (GOU) Competitive and Investment Climate Strategy (CICS). This component is managed by the Agricultural Business Initiative [...]
This is Volume II of the Final Evaluation Report for the evaluation study of the Gender for Growth Programme(G4G). Volume I of the report contains the main report, whereas this Volume contains the supporting Annexes Download Report [...]
This Gender for Growth Programme (G4G) evaluation has been guided by the Terms of Reference (ToR) which are included as Annex 1 in Volume II of this report. Download Report [...]
The Agricultural Business Initiative Trust (aBi Trust) is multi-stakeholder corporate body founded jointly by the governments of Uganda (GOU) and Denmark in 2010, as one of the three components of the U-Growth programme aimed at creating a Competitive and Investment Climate Strategy (CICS). Using the Value Chain Approach, aBi Trust [...]