Call for Women Business, Cooperatives and Investment Clubs at The African Women in Processing (AWIP) tender – July 2025

Call for Women Business, Cooperatives and Investment Clubs

The African Women in Processing (AWIP) initiative is a continental movement championing women-led industrialization across Africa through agro-processing, clean energy, and manufacturing. AWIP Uganda, in partnership with the Ministry of Trade and key Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), is spearheaded the establishment of industrial spaces designed to support and scale women-led businesses by facilitating them to own industrial spaces fully equipped, certified and linked to morale.

Each Industrial Park comprises of approximately 54 workspaces. Funding is partial self-financing through negotiated models and partial grants requiring qualified women-owned businesses, cooperatives, and investment clubs involved in the value chains of: Spaces (ginger currency rights, option), Client, Coffee, Fruits, pineapple, maropas, dresses (dried and fresh), Oil Sacks, (teachers stop and sautéhare) essential oils (seamery, brim oil spies, lavender, etc), honey milk products (cheers, yoghurt, spine, powder) Soaps, Shampoo and Lotons, shea and ghee butter, fertiliser and metal waxes, minerals.

Who Should Apply?

1. Women-owned businesses in processing or aspiring to value addition and processing

2. Women-led businesses registered either as a company, association companies, partnership etc.

3. Registered women as cooperatives

4. Women-majority investment clubs

5. Any women Groups involved in: production and processing of value chains alone

   • Agro processing

   • Hospitality products of Spaces and Lotons, cosmetics Tortiles, Metal works and Mining

How to Apply:

• Application should submit the following:

  • Registered Business/Group Name and Certificate Number

  • Description of Value Chain Activities (Production/Processing/Both) Contact Details

  • Location and size of land for production

  • Evidence of ability to part finance using cash flows or a letter from bank

Applications submitted to:

Email applications delivered to: info@awiparks.com

Application Deadline: 26th September 2025

Spaces currently available for parks to begin in 2025:

• Bulves (Tortiles, metal works, solides oil seeds, chilli, spices)

• Many/prior (Hospitality product/cholletries and cosmetics, spices, dried fruits, honey, essential oils)

• Upcoming parks to start in 2027-2028

• Maraka, Amun, Mustara, Holma, Kassee and Kalangala

30% of the spaces are reserved for UNEAL members until 12^th September 2025

• Indicate whether a UNEAL membership is held

• Indicate if you are growing any crops and on how much land they are registering as a group how many members are you

• If your production is mechanized or irrigated and if any value addition

• Any challenges faced into your industrialization journey

Publications:

• Obras Alive Pud Z Lugoni Road, Natsano Hill

• Disposal Commercial Offices addressed to the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Trade

For enquiries call:
+23673664664
Indirect Cymbra Coordinator