Most of Uganda’s exports have earned very little respect and value on the international market owing to their low quality and failure to meet international standards. In order to improve on the performance of Uganda’s exports, BUDS is operating a new grant facility the Technology Acquisition Fund (TAF).

The Technology Acquisition Fund (TAF) is a cost share grant product, focusing on introducing new technologies into Uganda that will allow firms in export supply chains to introduce new products or improve quality of existing products so as to meet international standards based on demonstrated export orders.

Objectives
• To introduce new technologies into the Uganda Market
• To support the competitiveness of Uganda’s exports in the international market
• To improve on the quality of Uganda’s export products along an export supply chain
• To increase on the level of export items from Uganda
• To introduce new products from Uganda into export supply chains

Eligible activities for support
Under this new grant product, export firms can be supported with a maximum of US$ 50,000 for any of the following eligible activities:
• Procurement of prototypes,
• Technology transfer to facilitate new product development   [+]