Our Strategy
Last year (2022) marked the second year into our 5-year strategy. However, the past two (2) years presented challenges occasioned by Covid-19 pandemic and as such, we refined our strategic framework to cover the following areas that will define our work between now and 2025:
Our action areas are anchored onto our quest to be the thought leader in enterprise development – we aim to consolidate our offerings in technical and knowledge support in business development, transactional advisory, project management, specialized research and bespoke training to our clients in the public, private and development sector.
Alignment to International and Development Agenda
We contribute to the sustainable development goals (SDG 1, SDG 3, SDG 4, and SDG 13 that resonate with our priority areas) and the National development frameworks of Uganda (NDP III and Vision 2040), particularly on wealth/job creation through enterprise development
Innovations
We purposely innovate and develop solutions aimed at building resilience in the enterprise ecosystem to navigate and adapt to the Covid-19 posture.
Building Enterprise Ecosystem
We intentionally build alliances and collaborate with like-minded organizations in the public, private and development sector, to build the enterprise ecosystem, to drive impactful solutions and achieve more than what we would have achieved on our own
Social Mission and Impact
We purposefully tailor our business model to engage in activities that cause meaningful change in the society, especially around job creation, poverty alleviation, and engagement of young people (youth and women)
Our Vision
To lead the way in poverty alleviation through enterprise development
Our Mission
Our vision is to be the leading Enterprise Consulting, Training organisation in Africa
Our Core Values
Goldstone Enterprise,Consulting and Training has Four major core Values among which include the following
Reliability
We believe in the value of reliability. All our staff members are trained to be reliable and accountable to one another. This has helped the business to be reliable to its clients in turn.
International
We believe that whatever we do impacts the world we aim to engage our staff with like businesses and institutions in the world in order to continuously facilitate the transfer of best practices. We also aim to serve a wider international market and to impact lives positively
Creative
We believe in creativity. We empower our staff members to be creative and we pool the new ideas in order to deliver value to our customers.
Efficient
We believe that the mark of a successful organization is its ability to efficiently deliver its products and services to its clients. This is the core value for Goldstone Staff.
We believe that efficiency should be committed to doing the right thing in the best interest of the company, its clients and other external stake holders.
Areas of Focus
Renewable Energy
Education
Agribusiness
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene(WASH)
Goldstone Enterprise,Consulting and Training
This entity provides enterperise consulting and business advisory services. It also offers Accelerator and Investment readiness services. In 2020, This entitiy started providing country representation services for international entities
Goldstone Capital Advisers and Managers
Investment in Small and Growing Businesses opertating within our four focus areas such as, Agribusisness, Renewable Energy, Education, and WASH. These target the challenges of unemployment, environmental degradation, Health & literacy
Goldstone Impact Investment Foundation
Raising investment and grant funding to capitalise and scale businesses in the four core areas of Goldstone’s focus. These areas have been consistently underfunded by the mainstream financial institutions. We earnestly seeks to ease access to finance
Our Services
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- Business Development Services
- Transactional Advisory Support
- Market Entry Support
- Policy Analysis and Research
- Project Management Services
- Institutional Development
What Our Clients Say?
The training has helped us to understand our product and services and to know the direction of our business in terms of profitability under the
Value Proposition and Business Plan respectively. The training on Strategic Plan has also helped us to strategize for long term aspirations for better business performance.
Bukenya Godfrey
We have learnt how to be organized for success in the organization and how corporative structures should flow for better achievement – We have
also learnt how to network with members in the organization in order to achieve better results in the organization and that its necessary to be smart in everything that you do.
Mugabi Peter
I learnt that figures are key in projecting where you are heading and this gives a basis to the associate members and investors to know the basic way of joining and working with us.
Waiswa Joseph
Under budgets & forecasts, we have learnt that these are planning tools which guide our organization on how and when to implement Due diligence has given me a change to approach the investor with confidence We have learnt where and how to raise money (capital) needed to support the business (credit looking from customer shares).
Ssebudde Richard
As an entrepreneur, I sought to learn things I didn’t know and am glad to say that I am not disappointed. I got clarifications on detailed specifics of how to raise capital and position myself for expansion.
Makadesh Joel Mukisa
We learnt that there are very important documents that a business should have where the Business Plan introduces the idea and the Strategic Plan is a long term document that may be implemented in phases.
We also learnt that the historical performance prepares us as entrepreneurs to know our financial stand through income statements, balance sheet & equity.
Budgets empowered us to plan in advance the financial projections
Shibuya Simon Peter
The training was beneficial in such a way that we learnt how to develop a business plan(which needs editing to add in all the components), a strategic plan(which we didn’t know about and is to be developed from scratch as we didn’t have one) We’ve also learnt to draw our financial records from the business transactions.