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Issah Kato

Vice President of the Uganda Tourism Association (UTA) and Ugandan tour operator, advocating for access to affordable financing for tourism MSMEs.

Sep 23, 2026

RaymondHOST
1:13
Just that MSMEs accessing to finance, if you could just tell us what is the problem, um, that you're facing.
1:21
Uh, thank you so much.
1:23
Uh, well, as, as I said in, uh, previously, that, um, we, we have got a very, very long list and, uh, in fact we've become experts in listing now.
1:35
But, um, with the prevailing conditions, one of the challenges that we have got, uh, in access to financing, we have a s- a structure problem.
1:46
I would say structurally, the policy of, of the way how our banks work.
1:52
Now, we have different sectors, sorry, sections of the banking in Uganda.
1:57
You have the development banking, and then you have the commercial banking.

28 MINS LATER

RaymondHOST
29:48
Uh, uh, Mr. Issa, a- a- are we making any headway in, in addressing some of the concerns that you've raised? And please feel free to say we are not making headway so that we can go back into the mechanics.

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