Background

Borne out of the founders’ experience amongst local communities in many rural communities in Uganda, SELLMARK Business Leadership Hub is designed as a business support hub that realigns market engagement techniques and mobilizes indigenous resources and solutions to address teething challenges in the local energy and food systems, which are apparently have related impacts, and yet they both present perhaps the greatest livelihood challenges.

Unfortunately, it is now increasingly becoming a common belief that challenges in the energy and food systems, which unfortunately tend to exacerbate during emergencies, are concerns for Donors and the Government. Changing this perception through sustainable market oriented solutions innovated from local communities and organizations, in SEMARKS’ views, present bankable business opportunities, especially due to the fact that a number of Donor funded interventions in the energy and food systems tend to collapse soon after donor support peters out, leaving open an “opportunity gap” that can be filled with innovative solutions that have self-sufficiency and sustainability in their design.

Furthermore, with innovative entrepreneurial approaches, investing in energy and food systems offers Youth, Women, Widows, Single mothers, Refugees, Disaster hit persons, People with disabilities, and People living with HIV/AIDS, among others, direct, equitable, accountable, gainful and dignified employment opportunities.

SELLMARK therefore facilitates strategic engagements between indigenous communities and organizations for market-led innovations and engagements with the hindsight of affordability, value for money and ESG concerns. ​