Loans at One-by-One SACCO
We offer a variety of loan products tailored to meet the diverse needs of our members. Whether you're looking to finance a personal project, expand your business, or purchase land, we have the right loan solutions to help you reach your financial goals.
One by One offers 5 types of loans;
- Ordinary Loans
- Investment Loans- medium term
- Investment loans- long term
- Emergency Loan
- School fees loan

Ordinary Loans
- Ordinary loan relates to a loan issued to a member based on the total savings and the 15 minimum shares or 10% of the loan in shares whichever is higher.
- The loan doesn’t exceed 75% his /her savings or shares or both. An ordinary loan is issued at an interest of 1.5% per month (18% pa).
- Ordinary loans above 10mUGX (Ten million Uganda shillings) must be secured with a valid land title or a comprehensively insured car log book.
- To members with many shares, the loan issued must not exceed 65% of the total share capital and may require less guarantying.
Investment Loans - Medium term
- An investment loan is where a substantial security for the loan is required. Substantial security shall include; Land Tittles with a valuer’s report and Motor vehicle log books that have comprehensive insurance cover. All security documents MUST be original documents.
- The investment loan is issued at an interest rate of 1.67% per month (20% pa) and one should have ugx.225,000in shares or 10% in shares of the loan applied for whichever is higher . This loan does not exceed 20m UGX (Twenty million Uganda shillings).
- The maximum loan repayment period is 2 years(24 Months).
Investment Loans -Long Term
- It bears all the conditions for medium term loans but only differs in amounts and the period taken. This type of loan is over and above 20m and the maximum repayment period is 3 years (36 months)
Emergency Loans
- Fully secured with a land title whose 65% of the forced sale value covers total principle and interest.
- Shares (Not more than 65% of the share holding)
- Maximum repayment period: 3Months
- Interest rate 5% per month reducing balance.
- All the 5Cs of credit must be observed
School Fees Loan
- Fully secured with a land title whose 65% of the forced sale value covers total principle and interest.
- Shares (Not more than 65% of the share holding)
- Maximum repayment period: 3Months
- Interest rate 5% per month reducing balance.
- All the 5Cs of credit must be observed
Additional Terms and Conditions
Note: The credit committee shall always set rules and regulations to govern loans which may change from time to time subject to the approval by the General Assembly of the members. All loans are on declining balance method.
All collateral must be valued by an approved valuer and the cost of valuation shall be borne by the loan applicant.
The amount of a loan issued based on collateral shall not exceed 65% of the forced sale value of the collateral.
Different categories of loans shall be approved as follows:
- Not exceeding 10M- The chief Executive Officer
- Above 10M but not exceeding 20M- The credit committee
- Above 20M- The executive committee
A loan application fee of Ugx.30,000/= (Thirty thousand shillings only), shall be charged on Ordinary loans while 50,000/= (Fifty thousand shillings) shall be charged on Investment loans- medium term. And 100,000/=( One hundred thousand Uganda shillings) will be charged on investment loan –long term
Loans below 3 million shall be repaid within a period not exceeding 6 months but where a loan is 3 million to a maximum of 10 million an applicant may request for a longer period but not exceeding 12 months. For 20 million and above, a maximum of 2 & 3 years respectively.
For purposes of minimising losses or bad debts resulting from death/permanent disability of a member in loan status, there shall be a charge of 1% on every loan and remitted to an approved insurance company to take care of every loss resulting from the death or permanent disability of a member in loan status.
For the purposes of proper appraisal of loans and monitoring of loans and all costs related to debt collection, there shall be a charge of 1% on every loan to cover loan administration costs.
To accompany an application form, all loan applicants shall execute an under taking with One by One Sacco clearly stating two guarantors who shall pay the loan balances in case such a member defaults