The Effects of Saccos of the Performance of Small-Scale Business in Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality

Kanyesigye Fortunate and Labson Turyamushanga

Faculty of Business and Management, Kampala International University

ABSTRACT

The study focused on assessing the role of SACCOs on the growth of small-scale enterprises, in Municipality. The study sought to address all the three specific objectives of the study. The study used both qualitative and quantity research design in descriptive manner. The researcher used 48 respondents who included; 30 owners of the Small-Scale enterprises and SACCO members and 18 workers to SSEs through the use of the questionnaire and interview guide about the research questions. From the study basing on the finding of the first research question statistics reveal that 93.4% of the respondents revealed that SACCOs have significantly contributed to the increase of SSEs in Ishaka Bushenyi. It was further revealed that both the owners and workers of SSEs save part of their money as indicated in table 7 by 72.9% of the respondents. The finding on second research question revealed that revealed that SACCOs have significantly enabled SSEs owners and their workers to acquire assets like land, construct house and purchase home equipments. Lastly on the third research question, that there is interdependence between the SACCOs and SSEs declared by 90.0°o of respondents

Keywords: SACCOs; Small Scale Enterprises (SSEs); Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality; Growth; Financial Support

CITE AS: Kanyesigye Fortunate and Labson Turyamushanga (2025). The Effects of Saccos of the Performance of Small-Scale Business in Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality. INOSR ARTS AND HUMANITIES 11(1):23-33. https://doi.org/10.59298/INOSRAH/2025/2333