By country: Uganda

Government programmes

• Improving financial capability in Uganda, Financial Education Fund (FEF): www.financialeducationfund.org: 
  the FEF is a new UK Department for International Development (DFID) sponsored challenge fund to catalyse improvements in financial literacy in Africa. It will fund projects from public and private sector that test alternative approaches to building the financial capability of lower-income groups. The first funding round will be open to eight Sub-Saharan African countries: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The geographic focus may be extended in subsequent rounds.The FEF is conceived as a multi-donor fund, with an initial start-up capital from DFID of £4 million over three years. DFID is a UK public body leading the British Government's fight against world poverty.
  Projects funded by the FEF in Uganda will be announced after March 2009.

Civil society programme

• Financial education for consumers, The Association of Microfinance Institutes Uganda (www.amfiu.org.ug)  
  The Association of Microfinance Institutes Uganda developped a three-year experience educating the consumers on financial services. The nationwide campaign addressed four areas where consumers showed a lack of understanding: knowledge of their rights, responsibilities, types and uses of different financial products, and the differences between types of financial institutions. The campaign used a variety of channels to deliver its messages, including rural radio, posters, flyers, music, dance and drama, and the newspaper MoneyWorld (published in five languages).
  Uganda's experience with microfinance - Consumer education
• Communications for Development Foundation Uganda (CDFU) is an NGO with long experience in behaviour change communication.
• USAID’s Rural SPEED project promotes savings, transparency, and good governance, through member education and mass media campaigns. (www.speeduganda.org)
• REEV Consult is carrying out the end of project Learning Exercise designed to provide information that will be useful for carrying consumer education forward in Uganda and elsewhere. (www.reevconsult.org)