An intensive training for the small scale traders and medium manufacturers has started today at Lugogo Manufacturers show ground in Kampala.
The training that is organized by the Private Sector Foundation Uganda is to train the small scale traders and medium manufacturers on how they can expand businesses, acquire loans from financial institutions and improve the products to capture the East African Community Market.
The Private Sector Foundation Uganda Spokesperson Sarah Nakibuka says they have called facilitators from banking institutions and other technocrats to discuss various issues pertaining to business, how traders can acquire loans and how they can use loans to improve businesses.
Nakibuka says the training that is expected to equip traders with skills to better take advantage of the opportunities presented by the bigger east Africa market will end on Saturday.
The five East Africa Community member states of Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda and Rwanda agreed on and started the East Africa Common Market on July 1st 2010 that brought a new order where goods from any of the five countries can be traded freely in any of the member countries.