Creating an effective entrepreneurship institute in Uganda is no mean feat as Jun Shiomitsu and Joshua Pi’Rwot – both highly trained business and finance professionals, found out. The fragilities of many entrepreneurs resulting in the high mortality rate of micro, small and medium enterprises in the country, was a valuable lesson and experience that shaped and strengthened the formation of the AVODA Institute of Entrepreneurship. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2019/2020 ranked Uganda as one of the most entrepreneurial countries in the world with 30 percent of Ugandans starting businesses annually. In the United States of America and Japan, that figure stands…
