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FINCA Uganda was licensed as an MDI in 2004, although the institution has been in the country since 1992. [4]FINCA provides financial services to Uganda's lowest-income entrepreneurs with the aim of alleviating poverty through lasting solutions that help people to create jobs, build assets, and improve their standard of living.
FINCA International is a non-profit, microfinance organization, founded by John Hatch in 1984. [1] FINCA is the innovator of the village banking methodology in microcredit and is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern-day microfinance. [ 2 ]
Finca is a Spanish term for estate. In English usage, [ 1 ] it refers to a piece of rural or agricultural land, typically with a cottage , farmhouse or estate building present, and often adjacent to a woodland or plantation.
UGAFODE was founded in 1994 as the Uganda Agency for Development Limited, a non-governmental organization whose primary objective was to provide affordable financial services to its customers. In September 2010, in preparation to become an MDI, UGAFODE Microfinance Limited was incorporated as a limited company.
Fabian Kasi is an accountant, bank executive, and businessman in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community. He is the managing director and chief executive officer of the Centenary Bank , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] with over US$573 million in assets as of April 2014.
Map of Bugoma Forest, showing the area deforested by Hoima Sugar Limited for sugarcane plantation (2020–2023).. Between 2020 and 2023, approximately 57 km 2 (14% of its original area) of the Bugoma Forest was degazetted by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and cleared for sugarcane plantations by Hoima Sugar Limited.
The town is in the northwestern corner of Uganda, close to the international border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Vurra is in Arua District of the West Nile sub-region . It is approximately 33 kilometres (21 mi), by road, south-west of Arua , the location of the district headquarters and the largest city in the sub-region. [ 1 ]
Uganda is a member of the East African Community and a potential member of the planned East African Federation. Uganda has a large diaspora, residing mainly in the United States and the United Kingdom. This diaspora has contributed enormously to Uganda's economic growth through remittances and other investments (especially property).