In commemoration of the International Women's day 2021, PSFU in partnership with Inspire Africa celebrated women in coffee and shared about the diversity in coffee & the available business opportunities within the sector. The Chief Executive Off [ ... ]

Kampala, Thursday, 11th March 2021 – To continue supporting the health sector to address pandemic-related needs in the Country, the Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation COVID-19 Economic Recovery, Re [ ... ]

PSFU in partnership with The Innovation Village organized a virtual policy consultation conference on 11th February 2021 to interact with the different innovators, policy makers, development partners and the academia.  Innovation is synonymous with [ ... ]

PSFU through the Policy and Business Development Unit conducted consultations across the 12 sectors (Agriculture, Manufacturing, Trade and Commerce, Tourism and Hospitality, Skills, Education and Health, Financial Services, Logistics, Professional Se [ ... ]

Dr. Mathuki has been instrumental in championing removal of NTBs, implementing the turn-around strategy of EABC and revitalized donor support in the sector among other issues. Wednesday, 3rd March 2021, Arusha, Tanzania: The East African business co [ ... ]

Kampala, Tuesday, 8th December 2020 – To address urgent, pandemic-related needs in the health care sector, The Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Program is providi [ ... ]

The Young Africa Works Uganda Strategy implementing partners on Friday 4th December 2020 signed a Memorandum of Understanding which will serve to extend and cement the cooperation that the partners have built over the course of 2020 in implementing t [ ... ]

Private Sector Foundation Uganda today, Thursday, 3rd December 2020 announced that it turned 25 years since its founding in 1995, on 24th August 2020, and will engage in a series of events to commemorate the 25 years. PSFU was established to represe [ ... ]

Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, Private Sector Foundation Uganda held its Annual General Meeting via a virtual zoom webinar with the members on Thursday, 26th November 2020. The AGM was chaired by Hon. Dr. Elly Karuhanga and he presented his re [ ... ]

The Government of Uganda (GoU) has applied for credit from the International Development Association (IDA) towards financing of the Investment for Industrial Transformation and Employment Project (INVITE) which is currently under preparation. The pro [ ... ]

Uganda Set for Digital Transformation to Streamline Microfinance Supervision and Regulation Processes The digital transformation plan maps the essential strategic actions and resources required for the country's Microfinance Regulatory Authority to  [ ... ]

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BODA BODA RIDERS TRAINED TO SENSITIZE PUBLIC ON WEARING A MASK AT ALL TIMES   Kampala, Friday, 16th October 2020 - Private Sector Foundation Uganda today flags off Safeboda riders to join the sensitization team in the campaign dubbed “Tugobe Coro [ ... ]

Kampala, Tuesday, 6th October 2020 - Private Sector Foundation Uganda together with its partners have today launched a campaign dubbed “Tugobe Corona. Wear A Mask.” The campaign is aimed at sensitizing and creating awareness among Ugandans to sh [ ... ]

The COVID-19 pandemic has already unleased substantial economic damage word-over. Economic growth has been slowed substantially by 2%-3% in Uganda. This is the same world over. The impact on poverty is even greater. We already know that 2.5m people a [ ... ]

3rd September 2020, Kampala. Government of Uganda, through the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development with support from UNDP has drafted the National Work Based Learning Policy. The main purpose of the policy is to promote and strengthen w [ ... ]

Uganda, through Mahathi Infra Uganda Limited, is constructing the a 14-tank storage project aimed at storing up to 70 million litres of fuel with a 220 meters long jetty estimated to deliver fuel in 16 hours. The cost of the storage tanks is estimate [ ... ]

In partnership with Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) and the Government of Uganda, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) facilitated a training on 12th August 2020 for Ugandan companies to use a digital tool to discover opportunities [ ... ]

23. August 2020 - The Board and Management of Private Sector Foundation Uganda wishes to make this important announcement about COVID-19. The Ministry of Health has issued a statement about the current surge of this COVID19 in many parts of Uganda,  [ ... ]

The Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) is partnering with the Mastercard Foundation to anchor the Young Africa Works strategy in Uganda. Under the Young Africa Works strategy by Mastercard Foundation, PSFU has designed and will implement the Lea [ ... ]

On May 20, this year, Parliament passed the Local Content Bill 2019. The bill, which is currently awaiting formal assent by President Museveni is expected to support all efforts towards entrenching import substitution. Mr Gideon Badagawa, the executi [ ... ]

Kampala, Uganda – July 24, 2020 – On Thursday, 23rd July 2020, the Mastercard Foundation announced its Young Africa Works strategy in Uganda, which has set a goal to enable more than 3 million young people in the country to access dignified and  [ ... ]

Kampala, Uganda, June 9, 2020 – Today the Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) announced the creation of the COVID-19 Economic Recovery and Resilience Response Program in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation.  The program will extend i [ ... ]

Kampala: May 3rd, 2020 - Private Sector Foundation in partnership with UN Women have today hosted the first E-conference on mitigating the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the Ugandan economy.
The two days’ conference was conducted using online ZOO [ ... ]

Kampala: 19th May 2020 – Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) consulted its membership to analyse the impact of COVID-19 on their enterprises through a survey dubbed PSFU Business Barometer. The business barometer looked at the overall business [ ... ]

Kampala, Friday 8th May 2020 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with Jumia Uganda, the leading e-commerce company have launched an e-commerce platform to sustain supply chains for micro, small and medium enterprises (M [ ... ]