-Harriet Mucunguzi

Harriet Mucunguzi is the founder of the NGO, STEDO which focuses on marketing
services and entrepreneurship development for scientific research organisations.
Harriet is an original thinker and ensures that the organisation lives up to its motto:
Transforming ideas into marketable products. Working with STEDO, companies in
Canada will gain access to unique products in the science and technology sector,
ready to go to market and eventually be exported.

Sector:
Business Development and Management
Consulting

Services:
• Training (entrepreneurship, marketing,
management), certified export trainer
• Market research and other research
(Needs assessment)
• Business plan writing
• Marketing (plans and implementation)
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Event management and business facilitation
• Identification of investment opportunities

Highlights:
•Representing individuals or communities in
revenue generating activities to promote
economic development.
• Insight and experience in East Africa with a
keen understanding of the issues facing small
business in East Africa, in particular women
in business.
• Access through a membership base to a
diverse array of women entrepreneurs
• Strong focus on community development

Objectives for mission:
1. To meet with Canadian companies and
organisations interested in forging linkages
with Ugandan and East African companies.

2. To identify distribution channels for unique
products made by impoverished rural women.

3. To explore public/private sector
partnerships to capitalize on opportunities in
Uganda at a time when the government is
very supportive of Science and Technology
projects.

Market experience: Uganda, USA

Sector experience: Business development,
training and consulting in different sectors but
mainly handicrafts, agro processing and real
estate management.

Clients:
Centre for the Promotion of Imports from the
Developing World (CBI- Netherlands),
International Trade Centre (Geneva), Trade
Facilitation Office Canada (TFOC), Uganda
Industrial Research Institute (UIRI), National
Research Organization Uganda (NARO),
University of California

Association:
Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors,
Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association
(UWEAL), Member, Kampala Management
Consultants Cluster Association