Contact Person: Executive Director.
Contact Person: Jjakira Gerald, Chief Executive Officer. Mob: +256 701 505 527.
Contact Person: Ddamulira Douglas Jjakira, Managing Director. Mob: +256 703 891 065.
Established in: 2015.
Founder: Gerald Jjakira.
Product Brand: Coffea256
Membership: Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), Uganda Coffee Federation (UCF), Uganda Quality Coffee Traders and Processors Association (UQCTPA).
Networking Events: International Coffee Day, UCDA/MAAIF/USAID trainings
Target market: local and export
Description: Green coffee bean buyer and exporter
Location: Kijaria village, Nyambiri parish, Kuluba sub-county, Koboko.
Contact person: Ayiko Rodies, Director. Mob: +256 705 063 991.
Description: Robusta Coffee Nursery Operator.
Contact person: Winnifred Namwirya, Director.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery.
Contact Person: Kagga Badru, Board Secretary. Description: Robusta coffee growers.
GPS Coordinates: 0.31479, 32.59103.
Contact Person: Joseph Nkandu, Executive Director. Mob: +256 772 595 030. Email: joseph.nkandu@nucafe.org
Contact Person: Nuwagaba Deus, Deputy Executive Director and Operations Management. Mob: +256 774 300 628, +256 706 717 260. Email: deus.nuwagaba@nucafe.org.
Description: NUCAFE is an umbrella national coffee farmers’ organization founded in 2003 as a successor of the Uganda Coffee Farmer’s Association (UCFA). NUCAFE has grown and evolved as a vibrant private sector led farmer organization formed to serve and position farmers well in the liberalized coffee value chain in Uganda
GPS Coordinates: 0.32138, 32.61264.
Contact Person: Samson Emong, Operations Manager. Mob: +256 788 703 915. Email: se@cafeafrica.org.
Description: supports the identification of national coffee sector strategies and their implementation along with the major coffee stakeholders.
Contact person: Robert O., Agronomist.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery.
Contact Person: Ivan Muhumuza, Chairperson.
Established: 2019.
Description: The group was founded by coffee farmers in Kyamasamba village. It deals in growing coffee, drying coffee beans and selling it to traders in form of kiboko.
Description: coffee growers, processors and exporters
GPS Coordinates: 0.3504, 32.6641.
Contact Person: Sabiiti Bernard, Director.
Contact Person: Triumph Nimbareeba, Exports Manager and Logistics. Mob: +256 774 850 847, +256 704 300 697. Email: triumphbesmarkcoffee@gmail.com.
Description: Coffee processor and exporter
Contact Person: Ssenyonga Emmanuel.
Description: Coffee growers, processors and exporters.
Contact Person: Benyam Haile Hirus.
Description: coffee processor and exporter
Uganda Cooperative Alliance (UCA) Ltd is an umbrella organization for all cooperatives in Uganda established in 1961. It serves as the voice of the cooperative movement at both national and international level with a mandate to recommend to government on matters of policy relating to cooperatives arbitration (settlement of disputes) advocate.
Contact person: Acidri Manasseh, Director.
Description: Robusta coffee nursery operator.
Contact Person: Leopold Mumbere, Regional Coffee and Cocoa Director in East Africa. Mob: +243990 956 184. Email: leopold.mumbere@rikolto.org
Contact Person: Stan Lietaer, Coffee and Cocoa Business Development (Uganda). Email: stan.lietaer@rikolto.org.
Established in: 1958 under the name “Vredeseilenanden” in Belgium and since 1995 in Uganda under the name “VECO”.
Award: VUFO’s Certificate of Merit in 2021 (https://vietnam.rikolto.org/en/news/rikolto-awarded-vufos-certificate-merit-2021)
Membership: Beyond Chocolate.
Partnership: Belgian Government, European Union, NAAC, AMEA, SHONA, DOEN foundation, Kyaninga Forest Foundation, SWT e.t.c.
Target beneficiaries: Smallholder coffee and cocoa farmers in Western Uganda (Albertine rift area).
Interest: To link up with all the relevant actors in coffee and cocoa, to see what is possible to contribute to sustainable growth in both value chains.
Description: Rikolto is an International NGO supporting smallholder farmers in different agricultural value chains, including coffee and cocoa. In the region, we have experience in both crops in DRC, and are looking to start up activities in Uganda. Rikolto uses a holistic agroforestry approach, making the smallholder farmer a valuable and resilient part of the value chain. We strengthen their linkage to markets and financial services, while applying Inclusive Business principles. Resilience requires a focus on food security, climate change mitigation and financial literacy.
Contact Person: Patrick Tibasiimwa, Owner. Email: ptibasiimwa@gmail.com.
Contact Person: Bahati Robert. Mob: +256 781 377 004.
Description: Since 2010, the farmer owns a Robusta coffee plantation and sells it to nearby coffee milling factories. His interest is to network with other farmers and learn how to form a farmers’ group that can benefit from government and other development coffee programs
Contact Person: S.M. Wekomba.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Coffee House,
Plot 35 Jinja Road,
P.O.Box 7267,Kampala, Uganda
Tel: (+256)-414-256940 / 312-260470
Fax: +256-414-256994
Email: info@ugandacoffee.go.ug