November 2018

Undernutrition remains one of the biggest contributors to global child mortality linked to about 45% of deaths among children under the age of five. Meanwhile ten (10) million children are overweight with old people obesity on the rise especially amongst women.

While speaking during  the NARO-Mak Conference on 13th November 2018, former  African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture H.E Rhoda Tumusiime informed participants that poor quality diet poses a greater  threat to public health than either malaria, tuberculosis or measles.

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Uganda Rt. Hon. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda has emphasized the need to promote post-harvest handling and value addition to boost Uganda’s agri-business and nutritional sector.

The objective of the study was to examine the effect of Microfinance lending on the growth of SMEs. It consisted of SME traders of Kalerwe Market. The study was based on objectives which included (i) examining the effect of credit amounts from MFIs on the growth of SMEs, (ii) assessing the effect of collateral requirement by MFIs on SME’s growth, (iii) assessing the effect of credit repayment period on SME’s growth and (iv) assessing the effect of interest rate charged by MFIs on SME’s growth.

Value Engineering (VE) is an innovative service which involves an organized approach to the identification and elimination of un-necessary costs without loss of function, hence this study describes a Masters research based on the application of VE in the implementation of building construction projects.