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This is a list of regulated "Microfinance Deposit-taking Institutions" in Uganda. They are supervised and regulated by the Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority (UMRA). [1] FINCA Uganda Limited [2] Pride Microfinance Limited [2] UGAFODE Microfinance Limited [2]
Wilberforce Kisamba Mugerwa, also Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa, (5 July 1945 – 7 January 2021) was a Ugandan agricultural economist, politician and academic, who served as the chairman of the Uganda Microfinance Support Center, a government-owned company established in 2001, that manages micro credit programs in Uganda, funded by the African Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank and the ...
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.
EFC Uganda Limited (EFCUL), also known as EFC Uganda, was a microfinance deposit-taking institution (MDI) in Uganda whose license was withdrawn and liquidated by Bank of Uganda on 19 January 2024. [ 1 ]
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.
The institution was founded in 2005 as Micro Provident Uganda Limited. In 2012, the business re-branded to Letshego Uganda Limited. In 2013, Letshego Holdings Limited acquired control of Micro Africa Limited, a Kenya-based microfinance institution with subsidiaries in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and South Sudan. The two operations in Uganda were ...
PMFL was founded in 1995 as a non-governmental organization with the support of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. Its major objective was to offer credit to the poor, targeting those in the agricultural sector. In 1999, it was incorporated as a limited company and changed its name to Pride Africa Uganda Limited.
The Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority (UMRA) is a government agency responsible for the licensing, supervision and regulation of Tier-4 micro finance institutions, money lenders, savings cooperatives and any money-lending institution with capital of less than USh500 million (US$140,000).