Challenges Uganda has offered Business Development services to more than 150 SMEs since 2014. Our mission is to enable businesses to grow, through implementing good practice and encouraging the development of SME-centred products and services. Our work is based on the belief that a thriving ecosystem of innovative businesses is vital for a strong Ugandan economy, where everyone benefits from increased earnings and stable and meaningful employment. As part of The Challenges Group we have extensive experience in capacity building, service provision, product research, market analysis and market linkages within many sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa. Challenges utilises a customer-centric design approach by working with our businesses all the way from analysis through to implementation. We have developed a diagnostic toolkit tailored to the Ugandan business environment, which allows us to pinpoint key operational issues to address and craft solutions suited to individual needs. We are also one of fifteen global partners of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and are proud to offer CMI-accredited management and leadership training courses, teaching best-practice that is vital for competitive businesses. Finally, Challenges offers an accredited youth internship programme, in which we place Ugandan youths within businesses to perform challenging analytical work and support them with ongoing training. This programme is demonstrably successful: approximately 70 percent of our alumni network achieve stable employment within 6 months of the programme ending.