The initiative, funded by the World Bank with a budget of 802 billion Shillings, aims to financially empower women by providing affordable capital. It is implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Labor, and Social Development, and the Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU).
BIRDC boasts of extracting flour from banana fingers, locally known as “tooke flour,” which is a raw material for several forms of bakery products ranging from cake, bread, chapattis, crisps, biscuits, porridge, etc, coupled with nutritious supplements, paper extracted from banana fibre, among other products still under study.
