The Uganda Bankers’ Association’s Chairperson, Citibank’s Sarah Arapta is female too- the first woman to. Some financial institutions such as Finance Trust Bank- have taken it further by having an all-female Board Chairperson, CEO and Executive Director while others like Stanbic Bank, Uganda’s largest Bank and have both CEO and Executive Director as female. You could argue this is still under-representation, which it actually is, given that there are more females than males in the population, but given where we have come from, this is good progress. Some of the largest banks such as Stanbic where 45% is female and…
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KCB Bank Uganda, in cooperation with German International Development Agency (GIZ), have rolled out a youth skilling program where 700 Ugandan youth have been recruited to take up courses in the construction sector. The skilling program is on full scholarship to the students. The partnership has been extended under the Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) programme commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by GIZ, and KCB Bank Uganda’s Twekozese Programme, that seeks to create self-employment and establish enterprises among unskilled and semi-skilled youth in Uganda Classes commenced on 24th…
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