Uganda Women's Finance Trust Ltd. (UWFT) - Kampala

Uganda Women’s Trust (UWT) is a non-governmental organization that was first registered in 1984 as Uganda Women’s Finance and Credit Trust (UWFCT) by a group of professional women professional with an aim of enabling low income women to mobilize savings and access credit as tools for economic development. This was done as a reaction to the failure of banks to provide financial services to low income people especially women. It was thought that access to credit was one of the best tools for the economic empowerment of low-income women and the betterment of livelihoods in their households and the community at large.

In 1997, UWFCT transformed into Uganda Women’s Finance Trust (UWFT) and provided only financial services, primarily, credit and savings. As required by the Micro  

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Finance Deposit taking Institutions (MDI) Act of 2003, it became imperative for UWFT to have two distinct components i.e. the finance and the non financial services.

On 1st May 2004, a micro finance arm called Uganda Finance Trust (U-TRUST) was created to handle financial services; while Uganda Women’s Finance Trust retained the non financial services as an NGO. On March 4th 2010, Uganda Women’s Finance Trust Limited (UWFT) re-branded and became Uganda Women’s Trust (UWT).

Our Vision
‘Socially and economically empowered women’

Our Mission
‘To provide skills and technical support to low income women to improve their socio-economic status’.

Our Objectives are;

1. ‘To build the capacity of low income women in order to advance for their social economic empowerment.’

2. ‘To mobilize women as an important part of the population to undertake a meaningfully active and positive role in the social economic development of Uganda.’

3. ‘To establish effective partnership with Government, Development partners, civil society organisations, Institutions and individuals to facilitate increased access of low income women to quality social and economic services.’

4. ‘To research and publish evidence based information relevant for social- economic empowerment of women.’

5. ‘To enhance institutional capacity and sustainability of UWT in order to achieve its mission.’