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    Private Sector Foundation Uganda

    Whereas banks present a picture of profitability and highly liquid, credit expansion remains weak, and the little lending that takes place is concentrated in consumption and real estate.

    Uganda’s Banking Paradox: Strong, Profitable, and Liquid but Failing to Power Productive Growth

    CEO East Africa MagazineBanking & Financial ServicesThe Big StorySeptember 29, 2025October 7, 2025

    Uganda’s banking sector has never been stronger on paper. And the Bank of Uganda’s latest Financial Soundness Indicators show why. Banks, the indicators show, are heavily capitalized, flush with liquidity,…

    UNBS’ challenges are seen in its planned activities that either fail to happen completely or just halfway. In the 2023/24 financial year, UNBS had 9,000 planned inspections but could only afford 2,453, leaving vast gaps where counterfeit and unsafe products thrive.

    Flush With Cash, Starved of Capacity: Why UNBS Risks Becoming the Uganda National Bureau of Substandards

    Jeff WintersThe Big StorySeptember 17, 2025September 17, 2025

    Uganda’s watchdog charged with policing the quality of goods and services is flush with cash yet dangerously hollow in capacity. Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) closed the 2023/24 financial…

    Uganda-EU Business Insights highlights opportunities for growth in agriculture and mining

    Brian EmorutAgriculture & Agro-industryCompany NewsEnergy, Oil & GasFebruary 16, 2025February 16, 2025

    Hundreds of innovators/entrepreneurs graced the Uganda-EU Business Insights 2025 held on Thursday, February 13 at Mestil Hotel, Kampala. The event, organized by the European Union (EU) Delegation to Uganda in…

    Invest in structured graduate training programs to scale up employment opportunities

    CEO ReporterNews & AnalysisThought LeadershipOctober 16, 2022October 16, 2022

    Over 10,000 have graduated from A, B, C university, these are some of the stories that make headlines each year when graduands receive their certificates, diplomas, bachelor’s, and any other…

    PSFU lauds Uganda Baati for leading by example through innovation

    CEO East Africa MagazineCompany NewsNews & AnalysisAugust 1, 2022August 1, 2022

    Stephen Asiimwe, the CEO of Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU), has commended Uganda Baati for bringing in the key innovations in the steel sector and taking the lead in advocating…

    Does it address nation’s development agenda to the next level- PSFU scrutinises FY2022/23 national budget

    Nelson NambooleThe Big StoryJune 25, 2022June 26, 2022

    The Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) recently put together a panel of experts who analysed the impact of UGX. 48.1 trillion national budget for the Financial Year 2022/2023 that was…

    High Commodity Prices: PSFU hosts private sector dialogue on opportunities for import replacement along wheat value chain

    Nelson NambooleNews & AnalysisJune 23, 2022June 23, 2022

    Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) in partnership with MasterCard Foundation-Young Africa Works in Uganda, hosted a dialogue to address the rising wheat and opportunities for Import replacement along the Wheat…

    Damali Ssali new Chief Programmes officer, PSFU

    CEO ReporterCompany NewsNews & AnalysisApril 7, 2022April 7, 2022

    Damali Ssali has been appointed the new Chief Programmes Officer at Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU). She will be reporting to the Chief Executive Officer. Ssali is in charge of…

    Young women entrepreneurs empowered at market exhibition in Luweero to commemorate International Women’s Day

    CEO ReporterNews & AnalysisMarch 10, 2022March 10, 2022

    Over 100 young women showcased their small businesses at a special women’s business market exhibition aimed at empowering them. The exhibition, dubbed “Women’s Day Katale”, was hosted by the Private…

    Former Diageo’s Grace Nshemeire-Gwaku appointed PSFU Chief Operating Officer 

    CEO ReporterNews & AnalysisWomen In LeadershipMarch 4, 2022March 4, 2022

    Grace Nshemeire-Gwaku has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer at Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU). Grace is a results-oriented business leader with extensive experience across various functions and countries….

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