Browsing by Author "Katongole, Celestine"

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    Entrepreneurs with Disability in Uganda
    (Investment Climate and Business Environment Research Fund, 2012) Namatovu, Rebecca; Dawa, Samuel; Mulira, Fiona; Katongole, Celestine
    This report addresses entrepreneurship activity among Persons with Disability in Uganda and their potential to contribute to economic development. Data was collected from Entrepreneurs with Disabilities (EWDs) in Kampala using mixed methods research. In the study we sought to answer questions about the environment, business activities EWDs are involved in, attitudes towards business, their motivations, challenges and growth aspirations. Key findings were that the majority of the EWDs are involved in retail trade. Most of them had started their own businesses using their own savings and had previously closed a business because it wasn’t profitable. Most of their businesses weren’t registered because they said they didn’t need to yet the majority of those whose businesses were registered said registration was easy and beneficial to the running of their businesses. The results also show that two thirds of the EWDs did not have any business skills training with the majority that received training saying that it was through apprenticeship. Two thirds of the EWDs claimed not to belong to any association thus starving their businesses of the benefits of these networks. A large majority of the EWDs hoped to grow their businesses with most of them hoping to hire between 1 and 5 employees in the next 5 years.
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    Entrepreneur’s Intrapersonal Resources and Enterprise Success among Micro and Small Scale Women Entrepreneurs
    (Journal of Enterprising Culture, 2015) Katongole, Celestine; Munene, John C.; Ngoma, Muhammed; Dawa, Samuel
    The study explores the relationship between intrapersonal resources (formal schooling, formal entrepreneurial education and training, and informal entrepreneurial training and education) and success of micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Using Structural Equation Modeling, the study tested the mediating role of entrepreneurial competence in this relationship on a sample of 303 women drawn from the tourism and hospitality sector. The results reveal that entrepreneurial competence plays a mediating role in the relationship between intrapersonal resources and enterprise success. The results also show that informal entrepreneurial training is important in complementing formal entrepreneurial training and education towards enterprise success. It is also shown that formal schooling has a weak relationship with entrepreneurial competence but has varying relationships with both financial and non-financial success.
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    An Interaction between Tourism enabling environment, Investment in tourism and poverty reduction in communities around protected areas The case study of Bushenyi district, south-western Uganda
    (2007) Tukamushaba, Eddy K.; Katongole, Celestine
    The study was carried to examine the relationship between tourism enabling environment, investment in tourism and tourism related sectors, and poverty reduction in communities around protected areas. It was guided by four objectives of examining the relationship between tourism education and training and growth of indigenous capabilities, the relationship between community participation and involvement in tourism planning and development and community empowerment, the relationship between government political will and commitment and growth of tourism support infrastructure and the relationship between community empowerment and poverty reduction. The study took a cross section study design and the questionnaires were filled by the respondents with the help of trained research assistants. A sample of 310 was used. The findings revealed that there was a significant relationship between tourism enabling environment, investment in tourism and tourism related sectors, and poverty reduction. The key recommendation was to always involve local communities in planning and development of new tourism activities through organisation of community workshops, and seminars where people should be able to share their views on activities that will eventually affect them.
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    Modeling Service Quality Improvement Priorities in Selected Hotels for Efficient Service Delivery
    (International Journal of Tourism Sciences, 2012) Tukamushaba, Eddy K.; Musinguzi, Dan; Katongole, Celestine; Xiao, Honggen
    This paper develops an integrated performance model that is aimed at improving service quality and providing accurate indicators that guide hotel managers in improving service priorities that promote customer satisfaction and eliminate resource wastage. The study was guided by three objectives of determining the level of importance of selected service quality attributes the level of satisfaction with selected service quality attributes and establishing the key service quality attributes that aid managers focus their improvement efforts. Quantitative techniques were used based on a sample size of 238 respondents selected from 30 hotels labeled as Common wealth Heads Of Government Meeting hotels in 2007. The findings indicate that out of the 22 service quality items, 13 needed
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    Rural Youth Entrepreneurs in East Africa: A view from Uganda and Kenya
    (Investment Climate and Business Environment Research Fund (ICBE-RF), 2012) Namatovu, Rebecca; Dawa, Samuel; Mulira, Fiona; Katongole, Celestine; Nyongesa, Stella
    This report is a result of a project titled Entrepreneurship empowering marginalized groups. The project was made possible through funding from the IDRC Trust Africa Investment Climate and Business Environment- Research Fund. The overall objective of the project was to explore the entrepreneurship initiatives that marginalized groups which included women, rural youth and the disabled are engaged in. From earlier studies it is evident that governments are aware of the looming youth problems especially the rising unemployment and entrepreneurship is being considered as a measure to mitigate the crisis. This report is intended to document the rural youth entrepreneurship situation in East Africa, the Ugandan and Kenyan contexts in particular, looking at why rural youth engage in entrepreneurship and what benefits arise there from. The report explores several facets of entrepreneurship as it compares rural youth activities and behaviors in Uganda and Kenya. It examines the socio economic environment in which these young people operate. Further, the report highlights the current policy gaps in youth entrepreneurship by exposing the unique challenges they face and assessing if the initiatives that have been devised have indeed worked. Proposals to achieve entrepreneurship for sustainable growth are then outlined.
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    Understanding Women Micro and Small Business Entrepreneurs in Uganda
    (Investment Climate and Business environment Research Fund Report, 2012) Namatovu, Rebecca; Dawa, Samuel; Katongole, Celestine; Mulira, Fiona
    This report focuses on micro and small entrepreneurial activity among women in Uganda. We presentand discuss findings that were adduced on the entrepreneurial environment, motivations, aspirations andData were sourced from around the country using mixed research methodology. A survey was carried out,in depth interviews were under taken with entrepreneurs and experts on women entrepreneurship. Focusgroup discussions were also conducted in all the parts of the country yielding a very rich data set. Mostof the women entrepreneurs were under 35 years of age and married with a minority having attained aneducation of ordinary level. The report also shows that the younger women entrepreneurs had the highest number of startup andinfant businesses while their older counterparts had the majority of established businesses. Most womenentrepreneurs are engaged in trade with the majority not employing anyone.The majority had been home makers before starting their current ventures. For those who had previouslybeen in business almost all had previously closed a business. Most of these women entrepreneurs saidtheir businesses were registered in some form, with those that were not registered blaming it on costand the perception of the irrelevance of registration. The majority of the respondents had never received entrepreneurial training. Of those who had, apprenticeship was the most common type of training. An overwhelming majority of the respondents stated that it wasn’t easy to access funds to start or operate their enterprises with at least half of them using savings from a previous business or employment to start their enterprises. The study also found that the majority of the women entrepreneurs did not belong to any formal or informal association with the main reason being lack of knowledge of any such associations and high subscription fees. Yet those who belonged claimed a wide range of benefits of these associations specifically financial support. Most of the enterprises of the respondents were dependent on rudimentary hand tools. The majority of the respondents started their businesses of their own accord with survival and need to increase wealth as the main reason for startup. Most chose their current line of business because it was either what they could afford or because it was all they knew how to do. With an overwhelmingmajority asserting thatthey intended to expand their enterprise, it was no wonderthat a large number of the respondents said they wouldn’t give up their business if a job opportunity was presented. Despite this, knowledge of business development services in their communities was said to be lacking. The studyidentifiedchallenges facedbywomenownedenterpriseswhichincludedimproperimplementation of government policies, lack of funding and skills training, absence of BDS-Business development services and use of rudimentary tools, non-engagement in social networks and discriminatory cultural practices, high cost of doing business and cumbersome registration procedures. The study advances several recommendations to mitigate the existing circumstances including enlightment of women entrepreneurs on benefits of training and business registration; affirmative action in vocational institutions enrolment and award of government contracts and more interaction between government and women entrepreneurs; development of flexible financial products; improvement of basic infrastructure. Throughout the report case studies of typical micro and small women entrepreneurs are presented and quotes from experts in the field of women entrepreneurship are used to highlight the study objectives.