Focus on Small Enterprises & Metal Activities

September 2004

Banks revert to Government securities: Treasury Bills take precedence to detriment of financing industry

Engineering policy: Updates in a year or so

Demand Side Management: Offers more viable options in the short to medium-term in the supply of grid electricity.

Small & Micro Enterprise Sub-Sector: Bringing more on board and enhancing their facilitation is vital.

Informal Sector: Essential to coordinate, assist, shape and monitor for better growth

Productions & Operations Management: Key tenets for raising productivity when implemented at various levels.

Metal Forming: Adopting newer approaches and management style key to higher productitvity

Industry needs to brace for less risk-prone public share funding while bank lending terms remain prohibitive
Ministry of Works Housing and Communications is preparing a new engineering policy, expected in course of 2005
Hydropower sub-sector needs to implement more power supply management schemes to make high deficit transition more user-friendly
Small and micro enterprises promise faster industrial reawakening
Unguided replication of processing industries at small and cottage level rendering predecessor larger ones redundant
Uganda Small Scale Industries Association needs to bring on board more ventures across the country
Job shop facilities and activities need a modern shift with the times

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