The Uwezo Fund is a youth and women’s fund. This has its origination in the pledge of His Excellency the President made to allocate the Kshs. 6 billion that was meant for the presidential run-off to youth and women groups.
Objectives of Uwezo fund:
1.To expand access to finance through grants and credit to promote youth and women businesses and enterprises at the constituency level, thereby enhancing economic growth towards the realization of the goals of Vision 2030;
2.To generate gainful self-employment for Kenyan youth and women;
3.To model an alternative framework in funding community driven development.
How to Apply
1. Sign up for Capacity building programme
2. Ensure that you meet the eligibility criteria
3. Fill in
application form ( available at the Constituency Uwezo Fund Management Committee office and on the Uwezo Fund website)
2. Submit the application form together with relevant document to the Uwezo Fund Management Committee within your constituency
3. Await notifications of the Uwezo Fund Management committee
REQUIREMENTS
As youth, woman and person with disability you are required to do the following to enable you access to these opportunities and to compete for procurement opportunities within a category:
1.Form a group and register an enterprise with the Registrar of Companies’ Offices in Nairobi or anywhere else wherever they are located. You may do so as a sole trader, partnership, limited company, association, etc.
2.Get clearance from the Youth Enterprise Fund if you are youth; Women Gender Directorate if a woman; and, certification from National Council for Persons with Disability if you are a person with disability.
3.Register the enterprise with the National Treasury in Nairobi or any County Treasury office. PPOA shall publish the names of all registered groups in the PPOA website (www.ppoa.go.ke).
4.Visit any public entity of the National or County Governments anywhere in the country to seek for procurement opportunities. Public entities may advertise procurement opportunities in their
