Acknowledgement
This is the report of the Sixth Uganda UK Convention 2016, which was held in Troxy London, UK on the 10th September 2016.
This year’s programme addressed the essential need-to-know topics most prevalent to Uganda, such as opportunities within the priority sectors; Infrastructure development, Power & Energy, Health-care, Agriculture & Agri-business, Real Estate, tourism, Increasing intra-regional trade and developing risk mitigation strategies through collaborations and Private equity, and VC finance access.
The focus on these issues provided a wider platform for stakeholder participation and emphasized the critical issues in each area.
Women and youth entrepreneurship and empowerment were taken into consideration as cross-cutting issues in the discussion of all the areas mentioned above.