Search Results for: poverty

July 7, 2020

COVID-19 accelerates greater trade coordination in East Africa

It took a traffic jam of a couple thousand trucks at the Malaba border between Kenya and Uganda to fully visualize both the health and trade issues at stake when borders operate at optimum. The COVID-19 crisis has revealed both hairline fractures along borders in East Africa and the potential to solve them through better […]

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August 23, 2024

Nigeria’s roadmap to digital transformation under the AfCTA

Nigeria is positioning itself to lead the continent in digital commerce within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) framework. Already, the country’s digital economy has transformed the way millions of citizens shop, bank, and communicate, reshaping the nation’s trade landscape and unlocking new pathways for economic growth. The AfCFTA aims to harmonize digital trade […]

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February 4, 2020

TradeMark Africa Climate Change Strategy 2018 – 23

1. Background TradeMark Africa’s (TMA) mission is to promote regional trade, economic integration and competitiveness in East Africa. The region faces significant long-term risks from climate change (CC) because the economies are highly dependent on climate sensitive sectors such as agriculture. This proposed Climate Change Strategy complements TMA’s Corporate Strategy 2018-2023 by building climate resilient […]

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January 25, 2019

USAID

In support of America’s foreign policy, the U.S. Agency for International Development leads the U.S. Government’s international development and disaster assistance through partnerships and investments that save lives, reduce poverty, strengthen democratic governance, and help people emerge from humanitarian crises and progress beyond assistance. 

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January 16, 2020

Roaring Cross-Border trade lifts thousands of women out of poverty in Rwanda

In Rwanda from the capital city of Kigali to the borders with Democratic Republic of Congo or Uganda, cooperatives are building socially and economically resilient communities. TMA has interest in supporting women economic empowerment and this is being shown by its recent financial commitment to increase funding to women programmes. As well as its partnership [...]

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August 16, 2024

Benin’s trade facilitation committee optimistic of dismantling trade barriers as strategy takes shape

Benin’s national trade national trade facilitation strategy is optimistic that it will dismantle trade barriers as it enters new frontiers of partnerships with organisations such as TradeMark Africa (TMA). The country has already embarked on this path with the establishment of the National Trade Facilitation Committee, which was set up following an interministerial decree to facilitate […]

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August 20, 2019

Empowering Rwanda Manufacturers and Promoting Export Growth

BACKGROUND Improving the export market access and linkages of firms to export is a critical focus of many businesses in the EAC. Private enterprises in the EAC face a wide range of challenges that make trading across borders difficult and reduce the competitiveness of firms.  However, when there are reduced challenges in exporting this provides [...]

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August 9, 2024

AfCFTA must boost intra-African exports

Discussing the introduction of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement at the Africa Unlocked conference in Cape Town recently, panel members said that intra-Africa trade accounted for about 16% of Africa’s exports. In contrast, levels in Asia have reached 55%, North America 49%, and countries within the EU 63%. Given these statistics, the […]

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May 20, 2019

Working with exporters to enhance their export capacity – The Case of SOSOMA Industries Limited in Rwanda

1. BACKGROUND The overarching goal of Rwanda’s Vision 2020 is to transform the country into a lower middle income economy by improving its competitiveness while ensuring unity and inclusive growth and development. Significant strides towards achieving this vision have been made especially regarding improvements in the country’s business environment and competitiveness. The African economic outlook […]

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March 8, 2024

Empowering Women Through Unconditional Cash Transfers

What would you do with an extra Ushs200,000 (US$53) in your pocket? Would you load up on groceries, top up on that pending payment for school fees, or pay back that small loan you obtained last month? For many women in low-income countries, including Uganda, that extra cash potentially allows them to go beyond simply […]

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