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KAMPALA, Uganda – Over 4,000 urban women traders and 400 light processors all over Uganda are slated to benefit from a US$ 500,000 Trademark East Africa and and Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association Limited (UWEAL) joint venture project This was revealed during the official launch of Women in Trade (WIT) project that was held in kikuubo […]
Women entrepreneurs are concerned that non tariff barriers are hindering women participation in trade across the East African region hence the need for concerted efforts to address such challenges. Under the Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association-UWEAL, women entrepreneurs point out lack of access to information which has led to exploitation by middlemen, discrimination in formulation of […]
In a Memorandum of Understanding, UNCTAD and TradeMark Africa (TMA) have agreed to strengthen the scope and impact of their activities in East Africa by joining forces on a number of issues. Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD and Frank Matsaert, Chief Executive Officer of TradeMark Africa signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 1 July […]
KAMPALA – Government has been cautioned against signing international trade and bilateral agreements without scrutinizing their impact on indigenous business firms. Kyambogo University senior lecturer, Milton Ayoki, said trade agreements seek to favour foreign business firms or multinationals. He said government should only sign agreements as long as it takes interest on the survival of […]
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and TradeMark Africa have signed a memorandium of understanding (MoU) to boost trade in East Africa. According to a statement issued, the MoU signed in Geneva, Switzerland will help to boost trade in the region through collaboration trade and gender, trade facilitation, including customs automation and trade […]
Geneva – July 1st, 2015 – The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and TradeMark Africa have signed an MOU which is aimed at boosting trade in East Africa through collaboration on Trade and Gender, Trade Facilitation, including Customs automation and trade portals and improving port infrastructure. Speaking during the contribution agreement signing ceremony […]
Over the past 25 years, an astounding one billion people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty, reducing by more than half the number of those living in such deplorable conditions. This is great work but we can do even better. In the next 15 years, we believe that international trade, which has boosted economic […]
The lack of regulations governing cross border trade were a stumbling block for Tanzanian traders to effectively venture into cross-border businesses, experts said yesterday in Dar es Salaam. Tanzania Gender Network Institute Director, Christine Warioba said this at the ‘Women Cross Border traders’ workshop organised to discuss rights, tariffs, policy and regulation governing cross border […]
KAMPALA, Uganda – Uganda trade and industry minister, Amelia Kyambadde, has asked consultants working on improving trade in East Africa to support women living in border areas to pursue the available opportunities for increasing their incomes. Last week, Kyambadde asked TradeMark Africa (TMA) to focus on educating and empowering informal women traders as a way […]
At the point where River Sio meets Lake Victoria is a small trading centre whose growth has not been very impressive over the years. The locals tend to ignore its retarded growth and insist on calling the shopping centre a town. But a town it should be. It has all the natural ingredients of not […]
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