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Incubating incubators and accelerators for jobs, employment and wealth creation in Uganda
Business Incubation Management and Capacity Development
Ensures that the incubators have efficient systems and staff with the necessary skills, have the necessary internal structures, models and resources to be able to support agribusiness incubators.
Digital Economy, Technology and Innovations Management
Technology commercialization and market development – keeps incubators aware of emerging technologies and new market opportunities that can provide their incubatees with business opportunities
Incubation Systems and Skills Development
Ensures that incubators and accelerators have efficient systems and staff with the necessary skills
Business development and mentorship for Youth and Women
Equips incubator management with the best business tools and helps them to find and support mentors, especially for young and female incubatees
Agribusiness Incubator Accreditation and Due Diligence
Helps incubator management identify weaknesses and affect timely remedies that assure investors and creditors of their capability of delivering the services they promise and are actively doing it.
The African Agribusiness Incubation Fund
Facilitates transactions between agribusiness incubators and their incubatees and financial institutions.
Project Components
Agripreneur Incubation and Training (On-farm)
Youth Agripreneurs Skills Development (Non-farm)
Catalyzing Access to Finance and Market
Project Implementation - Coaching, Mentoring, Outreach, Reporting, Audit
Partnerships and Collaboration
- Partnership with Universities through the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) which is a consortium of 157 African universities operating within 40 countries in Africa where 8 Universities are in Uganda.
- Makerere Innovation and Incubation Centre, for example, provides business incubation for technology generated ideas and innovations from universities and SMEs across all sectors and Kyambogo University Incubation Centre supports innovation and research for industrial work and entrepreneurship.
- A case in point is when the Makerere Food Science and Technology Incubation Centre hosted a tour of Uganda Investment Authority partnering with KACITA Women Entrepreneurs League (KAWEL).
- AAIN Uganda has MOUs with a number TVET in Uganda Rwentanga Farm Institute, Bushenyi Technical College, Ntinda Vocational Institute, Butaleja Vocational Institute, Uganda Catholic Social Training Centre, Nsambya.
- These strategic partnerships and collaborations enable more innovations reach many Ugandans hence creating more businesses, more jobs in the country
Key Performance Outcomes and Indicators
- Increase in profitable youth agribusiness enterprise hubs within the participating communities
- Improved youth employability due to Enhanced agribusiness knowledge and skills
- Increased awareness and uptake of climate smart agricultural practices and technologies
- Improved access to agribusiness financing by the beneficiary youth
- Number of trained youth who successfully established and grow their agribusinesses. Disaggregated by gender and enterprise types.
- Number of participating youth who were gainfully employed and those who remain employed.
- Percent of trainees who have access to finance to establish their agribusiness enterprise, the value and number of loans obtained.
- Number of youth trained on climate smart agricultural practices and technologies, and who have successfully incorporated them into their agribusinesses.
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