What We Do

Our
Programmes

Four flagship programmes driving inclusive digital economy growth across Uganda — targeting young women and men in the regions where exclusion is most acute.

4
Active Programmes
22K+
People Reached
7
Districts Active
38+
Implementing Partners
3
Donor Partners
Digital Startup Accelerator Challenge
02
🏦UNCDF / Mastercard Foundation
Active Entrepreneurship

Digital Startup Accelerator Challenge

Accelerating Uganda's next generation of digital entrepreneurs.

A competitive accelerator programme identifying and intensively supporting the most promising digital startups from Northern and Eastern Uganda — providing investment readiness training, mentorship, and access to seed financing.

📅2024 – Ongoing 🤝8 Partners
120
Startups Supported
Startups Investment Readiness Mentorship
Financial Inclusion Programme
03
🏛GIZ / BMZ
Active Financial Inclusion

Financial Inclusion Programme

Making digital financial services work for rural women and youth.

Working with telecoms, SACCOs, and financial service providers to address the systemic barriers preventing rural women and youth from accessing, using, and benefiting from digital financial services — particularly in conflict-affected areas.

📅2022 – 2025 🤝6 Partners
14,000
VSLA Members Reached
Mobile Money VSLAs Gender
The MSD Difference

Designed
to Make
Itself
Redundant

🔍
Evidence-Led Design

Every programme begins with deep market analysis. We design interventions that address root causes, not symptoms — and we test assumptions before scaling.

🤝
Facilitated, Not Delivered

We work through market actors — businesses, ESOs, government — rather than substituting for them. Change outlasts our involvement because it's embedded in the system.

📐
Measured for Systemic Change

We track market-level shifts — adoption rates, policy changes, crowding-in — not just programme outputs. We follow the DCED Standard for Results Measurement.

Funded & Supported By
🏦 UNCDF
💳 Mastercard Foundation
🇩🇪 GIZ / BMZ
🇺🇸 USAID / DAI
🌍 Uganda Govt

Want to Partner
With Us?

We are always open to new programme partnerships, co-investment opportunities, and knowledge collaboration with organisations that share our approach.