The keynote speech was given by the Hon. Minister for Gender, Labour, and Social Development, who showed ultimate commitment and support to The WE-Fi code global initiative to support access to Finance for Women in Uganda.

Delegates included representatives from Microfinance institutions, Development partners, The World Bank, Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development among many other key Finance service providers.

The Women Entrepreneurs Code (We-Fi Code) sensitization workshop hosted by the GROW Project at Sheraton, Kampala- Uganda brought together over 130 key stakeholders and association Leads from over 26 commercial banks and 41 tier 4 micro finance institutions.

The WE-Fi Code provides a framework to achieve this transformation, as it brings together stakeholders into a national coalition that is committed to embedding sex-disaggregated data into financial reporting and policymaking, building on existing initiatives.

89% of this revenue would come directly from women entrepreneurs, representing 15.8% revenue growth for the financial sector.

Increasing women's access to finance from 25% to 44% could unlock a potential of USD 217 million in new financing financial sector revenue. ~John Ssengendo, Project Coordinator, GROW Project, MGLSD at the Women Entrepreneurs Code (We-Fi Code) sensitization workshop.

The Honourable Minister for Gender, Labour and Social Development showed ultimate commitment and support to WE Fi Code global initiative to support access to finance for women in Uganda during her speech at the Women Entrepreneurs Code (We-Fi Code) sensitization workshop.

The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Code (WE-Fi Code) sensitization workshop aimed to sensitize Uganda n financial stakeholders on the code and to gain consensus and action on implementing the code

The GROW Project being a Grant from World Bank has touched the core of access to finance to women in Uganda and Financial Institutions have played a key role in achieving this milestone. ~Hon. Amongi Betty Ongom, Minister of Gender, Labor and Social Development.

The WE-Fi Code provides a framework to achieve this transformation as it brings together stakeholders into a national coalition that is committed to embedding sex-disaggregated data into financial reporting and policy making building on existing initiatives.

89% of this revenue would come directly from women entrepreneurs representing 15.8% revenue growth for the financial sector.

The code aligns regulators, financial institutions, development partners under a common framework targeted towards addressing systemic barriers from collateral constraints to women.

Women led enterprises accoun to half of the 2.57 million enterprises that are still under financed.

The WE-Fi Code represents a critical global initiative that is designed to close the gender gap in access to finance. ~ Maris Nakayaga, Deputy Director, Data governance and Quality Bank of Uganda, during the Women Entrepreneurs Code (We-Fi Code) sensitization workshop.

" The WE-Fi Code will help in disaggregation of data that will guide product development, credit appraisals, reporting to development partners, data mining analysis and usage.". ~Racheal Kobugabe, AMFIU, during the Women Entrepreneurs Code (We-Fi Code) sensitization workshop.

"The WE-Fi Code initiative provides a good opportunity for financial sector players to harness data on women entrepreneurs and collectively report it as an industry.". ~ Patricia Kiconco, Uganda Bankers Association, during the We-Fi Code sensitization workshop

4.Scaling the data pilot to all market players and producing market insights. 5.Refining data collection, reporting and dissemination.

2.Aligning on data aggregators, data reporting processes and WSME definitions. 3.Pilot data collecting and reporting.

The Framework for implementing the WE-Fi Code involves;.1. Conducting WSME data ecosystem diagnostics. ~Istvan Szepesy, Senior Consultant, ConsumerCentriX during the Women Entrepreneurs Code (We-Fi Code) sensitization workshop.

The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Code (WE-Fi Code) sensitization workshop aimed to sensitize Uganda n financial stakeholders on the code and to gain consensus and action on implementing the code.