UDB Uganda – Winner of the 2025 Karlsruhe Sustainable Finance Award

LinkedIn UDB Uganda – 27/09/2025

The Uganda Development Bank (UDB) has been named the Winner of the 2025 Karlsruhe Sustainable Finance Award in the Outstanding Business Sustainability Achievement category.
The Award is in recognition of the Bank’s commitment to sustainable development, its role in driving economic growth, and its ability to expand its balance sheet while ensuring socio-economic benefits.
Established as the country’s national development finance institution, UDB has become a driving force for inclusive and sustainable growth in Uganda. The Bank plays a critical role in transforming key sectors such as agriculture, industry, infrastructure, and services by providing long-term, patient capital where it is most needed.
UDB’s impact extends far beyond financial support – it is about creating opportunities, enhancing food security, boosting manufacturing, and promoting the services sector.
The Bank directly contributes to national priorities through tailored financing and non-financial solutions that empower public and large private sector projects, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), women-led businesses, and youth innovators, ensuring that growth is broad-based and inclusive.

Source: LinkedIn UDB Uganda

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2026 AADFI Annual General Assembly

The Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) is pleased to announce that its 2026 Annual General Assembly will take place from May 24 to 29, 2026, in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, on the sidelines of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meetings.

The Annual General Assembly will be held on the theme “Augmenting Sovereign Finance in Africa: DFIs Unlocking Growth and Resilience through NAFA,” with a focus on the transformative role of African Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in strengthening Africa’s financial sovereignty. The discussions will align with the AfDB-led New African Financial Architecture (NAFA), a system-level framework designed to mobilize long-term investment, reduce Africa’s cost of capital, and reinforce resilience through coordinated financial systems and deeper domestic capital markets.

The Annual General Assembly will convene leaders of African DFIs, government officials, regional institutions, and development partners to further explore how African DFIs can catalyze local investment, de-risk strategic projects, and strengthen economic autonomy to build resilience against global shocks and bridge the continent’s infrastructure funding gap.

Further details will be shared in the coming weeks.