About the report
This report provides insights to decision makers on women’s participation in trade and challenges they face. It provides quality data from women-led businesses in Uganda; outlines the barriers to domestic and international trade; and provides testimonies and experience stories from Ugandan women entrepreneurs.
With the aim to promote gender-inclusive policies to unlock market opportunities for women entrepreneurs, this report captures the links between women entrepreneurs and access to markets with priority areas of enhancing women’s participation in public procurement and preparing women-led businesses to benefit from the opportunities resulting from the African Free Continental Trade Area (AfCFTA).
This report is based on the data from the International Trade Centre (ITC) business survey on women-led businesses in Uganda. The survey was conducted in the framework of the Netherlands Trust Fund IV (NTF IV) project, funded by the Netherlands Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI), and was conducted at the request of, and with support from the ITC SheTrades Initiative.