UCLAP – Uganda Corporate sustainability Landscape Assessment Partnership

About this project

UCLAP is a precompetitive collaboration between Export Trading Group (ETC Uganda), Neumann Kaffee Groupe (Ibero Uganda) and Ugacof (Sucafina’s sister company in Uganda) for efficient preparation for European Union (EU) due diligence regulations in the Greater Masaka coffee growing region in Uganda. Currently the consortium also contains SucDen and Volcafe/Kyagalanyi as associate members and covers about a quarter of the coffee export volumes from Uganda. The UCLAP project has an advisory board consisting of IDH, ITC, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). A wide range of coffee traders and roasters are sourcing the Ugandan Greater Masaka region, with potential wider range of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) risks, however the coffee players are lacking a shared understanding in prevalence and severity of actual risks.The UCLAP landscape partnership will prepare Ugandan coffee companies, and the wider sector, for upcoming Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) regulation and complement the legality risk assessment of EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) through landscape-level monitoring and the defining of several remediation pathways. The key activities of the project include:• 2024 – A “State of Affairs” from existing studies social and environmental risks in Greater Masaka, Uganda robusta coffee supply chain with recommendations for joint monitoring (eg gaps in current data, shared definitions), follow…

Published by

Netherlands Enterprise Agency · Government

Countries

Uganda

Sectors

Responsible business conductIndustrial crops/export crops

Focus

Trade development · Also contributes

Funded by

Netherlands Enterprise Agency

Implemented by

Ibero Uganda limited, Sucafina SA, ETG Commodities B.V.

Accountable

Netherlands Enterprise Agency

Published by Netherlands Enterprise Agency to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 4 Aug 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NL-KVK-27378529-SSF24IS01.

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