The study was to find out the role of SACCOs
in poverty reduction in Ntungamo Municipality. Add
this was assessed through findings out whether Access to
credit, economic and social mobilizations contribute to
poverty reduction in Ntungamo Municipality with
reference of Kajara People’s Savings and Credit
Cooperative Society (SACCO). The researcher employed
a descriptive cross sectional survey design. The study
population were 200 members of Kajara People’s
SACCOs in Ntungamo municipality from where the
sample of 132 respondents were sampled using Krejcie
tables as given by Amin in 1970 through use of both
simple random and purposive sampoling methods. Study
findings revealed that 92.2% responses are in agreement
that Sacco’s contribute greatly in improving the people’s
standard of living, whereas 91.6% responses also agree
that Sacco’s improves welfare of the poor. And that
Sacco’s improve credit access to the poor as given by
86.8% responses in agreement. Furthermore, the
coefficient of 0.72 show a positive relationship between
the Sacco’s contribution and Poverty reduction. And
that 52.67% % (adj-r
2
) of the variation in poverty
reduction can be explained by the economic
contributions, social contributions and access to credit
provided by SACCOs. Based on the study findings, it
can be concluded that SACCOs have brought about
positive changes in the standard living of members,
improved people’s ability to pay for social services such
as education, health, food, improved shelter, better house
and domestic assets. And the researcher recommends
that since SACCO services are key determinants of
poverty reduction given that beneficiaries forgo current
consumption in order to increase future level of
consumption, there is need for SACCOs to provide
entrepreneurial skills and training on familiarizing the
beneficiaries with terms and conditions of loans and
savings to enable clients optimize the use of microfinance
services.