Digital Economy Program
Target Impact
Provide a sustainable future for 300,000 youth characterized by decent income generating opportunities facilitated by digital products and services in agriculture, MSMEs and Education by 2026.
Target: 300,000 Youth in Work
Geographical location: Countrywide (Central, North, East, West, South).
Geographical location: Countrywide (Central, North, East, West, South).
Objectives:
- Increase inclusive access to work opportunities in the digital economy for 300,000 young people and 50 businesses.
- Increase the skills of the 1,000 early career individuals to meet market demand.
- Increase resilience and robustness of 100,000 local businesses and institutions.
Status: Active
Country
Uganda
Period
Oct 2021-Sep 2026
Industries
Access to Finance
Digital Economy
Creatives
Impact to Date
4
Graduated 4 technology solution partners into sandbox to implement solutions to last mile customers: Hawme East Africa (AgTech), Axion Zorn (Agtech) Service Cops (Edutech) and MobiPay (VSLA digitization, AgTech).
190,000
Young people reached with digital literacy trainings and supported 33,600 to access work opportunities. Deployed 200 point of interaction terminals with small scale farmers and
provided 7,536 community pass cards.
121,000
Young farmers enabled to access digital payment services through the community pass cards. Onboarded Equity Bank as a partner to extend financial services to young people under the program.
200
Onboarded and trained 200 community digital agents to serve farmers and enabled 736 young developers to acquire relevant skills. Strengthened 162 MSMEs with digital business concepts.
Partnership Focus
Provide funding and technical support to start-ups and intermediaries to develop and improve product delivery to the last mile, through integration with the Mastercard Inc Digital Rails.
Digital transformation technical support- digitation of tools and processes to increase efficiencies in farmer producer organizations and other Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs)
Technical talent support – internal skills building, skill safaris, summer skill exchange between markets, attracting technical talent of Ugandans in diaspora.
The Partnership Program will offer technical assistance to the local ecosystem. This will include programming and tools to use the digital infrastructure, and better take advantage of the solution development, such as access to APIs, hackathons and a developer’s sandbox.
In Partnership With
The Innovation Village is a launchpad for entrepreneurs and innovators who are working to solve the most pressing challenges using technology. In partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, the Innovation Village is implementing the NextWave program — a sustainable market-led intervention that enables regional spaces for entrepreneurs to innovate, collaborate, and access the tools required for them to build viable businesses.