Over the past few months, ILO-WEDGE project held meetings with its partner organization in order empower women entrepreneur associations to increase access to and utilization of market information for their members through ICT, among the partner organizations involved was WOUGNET .FIT Uganda Limited was identified as a service provider to offer market information with the use of ICT. FIT Uganda Ltd is a Business Development Service Provider with expertise in running Agricultural Market Information Service in the country under the brand name INFOTRADE.

The baseline survey aims at profiling women entrepreneurs in different partner associations or organizations with the main aim of understanding the information and business needs of the women entrepreneurs and will use this data to develop information packages tailored to the needs of the women entrepreneurs.

The outcome of this work with FIT Uganda Limited will enhance women entrepreneurs access to and utilization of Agricultural market Information as a tool to propel women led enterprises through Information Communication Technology. Specifically, it will: 

1)            Enhance women awareness of the Agricultural market information

2)            Increase women access to Agricultural Market Information

3)            Empower women to interpret and utilize and;

4)            Leverage costs of market information with direct link to BDS embedded

Services

FIT Uganda is conducting a baseline survey with Apac district and its expected to end by 21^st of May 2010 in order to profile the  360 women farmers under the WOUGNET umbrella and the 50 women traders/ entrepreneurs that had been trained previously by WOUGNET under the Economic Empowerment of women; A NEPAD  funded project on “Enhancing Income growth between Small and Micro women Entreprenuers.During their stay in the district, FIT Uganda Limited point of contact will be the KUBERE INFORMATION CENTER (KIC), a WOUGNET multi-dimensional Information center formed in 2005 as one of the core activities under the WOUGNET project “Enhancing Access to Agricultural Information using Information and communication technologies”. The KIC is supported by the Technical Center for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) and Hivos.

Written by

Moses Owiny