Why this project?

The Busia border being the main transport artery carrying trade from Mombasa through Kenya to Uganda, has a comparative advantage to create jobs and spur growth than many other existing border posts. However, a key challenge in enhancing trade through Busia relates to the poor state of logistics and market infrastructure in place to support cargo aggregation, storage and distribution, sorting, packing/repacking, and labelling and several other ancillary and miscellaneous services.

What:

Building on the successes achieved through the development of a one stop border post at Busia by TMA, Busia TLC seeks to develop logistics and market infrastructure in Busia along with required regulatory interventions which shall make trade and logistics from the region more efficient, thereby reducing costs and supporting an increase in trade volumes.

This project will contribute to the structural transformation of cross border trade around Busia away from its current reliance on low productivity informal trade in maize and horticulture towards greater economic diversification by increasing production and quality of maize and horticultural produce. Women traders will also be targeted given they are active small-scale cross border traders.

All these shall result in a decrease in poverty levels through increasing net income for the trade chain, especially for the producers and create more Jobs.

How:

TMA, with funding from the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), is providing financial assistance to Government of Uganda through Ministry of Trade Industry and Cooperatives and Busia District Local Government.

Contact:

Ag. Senior Programme Manager: Sandra Kirenga, Email:sandra.kirenga@trademarkea.com

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