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Uganda Industrial Research Institute — Turning a World-Bank-Funded Lab Upgrade into SME Value-Addition Capacity

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 89% 48/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Uganda's national industrial research parastatal used a ~$4M World Bank Millennium Science Initiative grant to modernise its labs, now running 30+ SME incubatees and EU-export-grade food-safety testing.

~4 USD million
World Bank Millennium Science Initiative grant
30+
Current incubatees supported

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI)
Period
2003-present
Keywords
industrial research, technology transfer, business incubation, agro-processing

Context

The Uganda Industrial Research Institute, a parastatal established in 2003, moves applied research into industrial production capacity for Ugandan SMEs.

Activities

A roughly $4 million World Bank Millennium Science Initiative grant funded lab and workshop renovation and equipment including FTIR, HPLC and spectrophotometry instruments, giving UIRI EU-export-grade food-safety testing capability.

Results

UIRI now supports more than 30 incubatees through in-house and virtual models, alongside technical training at its Namanve skills centre.

Conclusions

These are real, if modest, figures; UIRI's own materials do not provide an audited count of jobs created or SME revenue growth.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
UIRI technical/lab staff, Namanve skills centre trainers

Conditions for success

  • World Bank-funded lab modernisation

Common failure modes

  • no audited count of jobs created or SME revenue growth

Commonly funded by

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