Today the Minister of State Microfinance, Caroline Okao Amali, launched the 2012 Citi Microentrepreneurship awards 2012 at the Citi Bank Office. The programme aims at promoting the effective role that microfinance plays in poverty alleviation and is organized in collaboration with AMFIU. The programme that started in 2006 in Uganda has seen over 129 entrepreneurs take home awards. According to Chinedu Ikwudinma, Citibank MD, Citi Foundation is committing $75,000 towards the micro entrepreneurship awards in Uganda. He further said that the 2012 awards are taking place in 28 countries including Uganda.

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AMFIU will hold a half day microfinance informal information exchange meeting for stakeholders on Thursday, 15th November 2012 at Fairway Hotel starting at 2.00pm. This will be followed by a networking cocktail. The meeting will mainly focus on 2 issues namely;

The Proposed amendments in the Credit Reference Bureau and how it will affect the microfinance industry

Developing gender sensitive products: dissemination of findings from the Mountain of the Moon and GIZ gender sensitive product development project.

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Agri-Finance Marketplace, Mayor’s Garden, Lira, On 1st November 2012

On 1st November 2012 there will be an Agri-Finance Marketplace that will be held in Mayor’s Garden, Lira. The Marketplace aims to bring together Farmers and Finance Service Providers from the Northern Region of Uganda for better information sharing, dialogue and interaction.

Farmers will have the opportunity to know better the existing financial services for farming. They will have face to face inquiries and discussions with the financial institutions that have presence in the Northern Region to share questions and demands and give evidence of their capacities for accessing financial services.

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