aBi’s Background: The Agricultural Business Initiative (aBi) was jointly founded by the Governments of Denmark & Uganda in 2010 as a social enterprise that channels development cooperation funding to agribusinesses & agricultural service providers. aBi aims at building a competitive, profitable & sustainable agriculture and agribusiness sector in support of equitable wealth creation in Uganda. The aBi consists of two companies; abi Finance Ltd a company limited by shares and aBi Development Ltd (formerly aBi Trust) limited by guarantee. aBi Finance Ltd is an impact investor providing sustainable financing solutions in Uganda’s financial services sector. Its mission revolves around enabling access to agribusiness and green finance, achieved through three Key strategies: offering competitively priced liquidity through lines of credit (LoC), mitigating agribusiness finance risks using the agribusiness guarantee (AG), and bolstering the capabilities of financial services providers through Financial Services Development (FSD) and Business Development Services (BDS).
aBi Development Ltd focuses on increasing agricultural production & value addition by extending matching grants & Business Development Services (BDS) to agribusinesses, farmer organisations & intermediaries to enhance planning & management, production & business infrastructure, as well as upstream & downstream market linkages of producers & agribusinesses.
As part of its expanded programming, aBi Development is partnering with Café Africa Uganda (CAU) and International Women in Coffee Alliance (IWCA) to implement the Empowering Young Women Entrepreneurs in Agriculture Stimulated by Coffee (EYE-C), a five-year program in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation.
The program aims to improve the livelihoods of 300,000 disadvantaged young women through their economic participation in Uganda’s coffee and related value chains. aBi is leading partner onboarding, capacity building, climate-smart investments, and stakeholder engagement to promote inclusive and
aBi Development Ltd seeks to fill the below positions:
- Program Director
- Program Technical Head
- Advocacy and Communications Lead
- Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Lead
- Finance Manager
- Lead Youth Innovation & Enterprise Development
- Lead Primary Production & Processing
- Regional Program Lead – (2 positions)
- Lead Value Addition & Marketing
- Finance Grants Controller
- Youth Engagement Officer
- Driver – (2 positions) – Western & Central regions
HOW TO APPLY:
Please send your applications to vacancy@abi.co.ug indicating the Position Title in the email subject line. All documents should be combined into a single PDF file, with the total size not exceeding 5MBs. The deadline for submissions is Friday, 19th September 2025 at 5:00 pm. Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted. Canvassing will lead to disqualification. Hardcopy applications will not be accepted.
