About Maono Advisory

African opportunity.
Institutional credibility.
Practical execution.

An Africa-based institutional capital and project-development advisory firm connecting domestic capital, investable opportunities, credible partners and implementation pathways.

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Who We Are

About Maono

Maono Advisory is an Africa-based institutional capital and project-development advisory firm. Based in Kampala, we work in selected African markets and connect suitable mandates with US and Canadian partners. Our work addresses the institutional and commercial constraints between available capital and productive investment.

We help clients develop capital-mobilisation pathways, prepare investment vehicles and enterprise pipelines, strengthen strategic projects and coordinate implementation. Each engagement is scoped around the client's decision and the evidence and delivery responsibilities required for the next step.

Our Purpose

Why Maono exists.

Promising opportunities often need more than an introduction to an investor. Governance, investment information, vehicle design, commercial assumptions and stakeholder coordination can determine whether an opportunity advances.

Maono brings these issues into a defined advisory mandate, with accountable work and useful outputs.

Institutional readiness

Identify governance, institutional and decision-making requirements.

Investment preparation

Strengthen the commercial information, structures and evidence required for investor consideration.

Stakeholder coordination

Align relevant institutions, sponsors and partners around an agreed pathway.

Accountable delivery

Define practical outputs and responsibilities for the next decision.

Independent Judgment

Evidence before commitment.

We test commercial assumptions, readiness and delivery requirements before recommending the next step.

A live investment or market decision

Evidence and commercial assessment

Sponsor and demand | Economics and readiness
Partner fit | Financing pathway | Delivery capacity

Proceed

Define the next mandate
and responsibilities

Redesign

Close critical gaps
and reassess

Stop

Do not advance the current
proposition

The recommendation may be to proceed, redesign the proposition or stop the current approach.

These are advisory recommendations, not predetermined outcomes. Clients retain responsibility for their own decisions.

Leadership & Experience

Experienced leadership.
A practical perspective.

Senior experience across institutional investment, development finance and African financial markets.

Experience grounded in investment and execution.

Eugene J Ntananga is the founder of Maono Advisory, with more than 20 years of experience in institutional investment and development finance.

He began his US career at Bank of America in secondary-market mortgage-backed securities.

His consultancy experience includes assignments for or supported by USAID, IDH, Mastercard Foundation, KfW and aBi Finance.

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Professional Background

Experience across institutions, capital and markets.

Selected roles and engagements from the founder's professional career.

Bank of America

Began his US career working with secondary-market mortgage-backed securities.

GuarantCo

Served as Investment Advisor, contributing to infrastructure and investment-related work.

East African Development Bank

Served as Deputy Team Leader of the biodiversity investment facility.

NSSF Uganda

Served as Portfolio Manager within the institutional investment environment.

Samawati Capital Partners

Served as Executive Director and Country Head in Uganda.

Momentum Global

Leads East Africa work on fund domiciliation and domestic capital mobilisation through the MEDA WEAVE programme, with responsibility for Rwanda and oversight across Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.

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Eugene J Ntananga

Institutional investment. Local-currency infrastructure finance. Enterprise readiness. African financial markets.

Eugene J Ntananga is the founder of Maono Advisory, with more than 20 years of experience spanning institutional investment, local-currency infrastructure finance, enterprise readiness and African financial-market development.

He began his career in the United States at Bank of America, working in mortgage-backed securities in the secondary market.

He currently leads East Africa work on fund domiciliation and domestic capital mobilisation through Momentum Global on the MEDA WEAVE programme, with responsibility for Rwanda and oversight across Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.

His earlier roles include Investment Advisor at GuarantCo, Deputy Team Leader of the EADB biodiversity investment facility, Portfolio Manager at NSSF Uganda, and Executive Director and Country Head at Samawati Capital Partners Uganda.

His consultancy experience includes assignments for or supported by USAID, IDH, Mastercard Foundation, KfW and aBi Finance.

Recent work includes agricultural SME finance assessment in Uganda and Zambia for ISF Advisors and Aceli Africa, and investment-readiness and financing analysis for FAO Uganda's sustainable wood-based value chains.

Education & Qualifications

MBA in Finance and a Graduate Certificate in Financial Analysis from DeVry University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Makerere University.

At Maono, he leads client engagement, commercial interpretation and final advisory recommendations.

Our Delivery Model

Principal-led. Mandate-driven. Accountable.

Our delivery is principal-led. We engage specialists according to the mandate and retain responsibility for the work scope, evidence and recommendations.

Principal-led advisory

Senior oversight of client engagement, commercial interpretation and advisory recommendations.

Specialist collaboration

Relevant technical and professional specialists are engaged according to each mandate's requirements.

Defined responsibility

Clear scope, evidence requirements, deliverables and accountability for the agreed work.

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