PhD Defence Abstract – Daphin Nahikiriza

The study examined the influence of Sacco’s on poverty reduction. The aim of the study was categorically to; establish the influence of Sacco financial Services on poverty reduction, examine the influence of Sacco non-financial services on poverty reduction and establish the mediating effect of government policies on the relationship between Sacco services and poverty reduction among the Sacco members in Greater Bushenyi, Uganda.

A cross-sectional design was used, where both quantitative and qualitative research approaches were used. Quantitative data were obtained from the Sacco members whereas the Key informants were selected from Sacco’s management and leadership resource persons who provided the qualitative data. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 397 from 61634 Sacco members and purposive sampling was used to select the 19 Key Informants from 250 Sacco’s management and leadership