Results That Matter
In public and private sector between 2010 and 2024, cutting average transaction costs by 50%
Digital Trade Systems
Harnessing innovations in AI and open ledger technology bolsters proven efficiencies in access, security and transparency for digitised trade processes.
$26.4m cost savings
in 2021 by traders using Uganda Electronic Single Window.
100% reduction
(30 days to instant)
in claim processing time in August 2023 with digitisation of the Warehouse Receipt System (WRS) Form 7 in Tanzania.
99.7% reduction
(14 days to 1 hour)
in permit issuance time on the Mifugo Integrated Management Information System (MIMIS) in Tanzania, with 100% increase in government revenue collection from the system in 2024.
94% reduction
(2 days to 2-3 hours)
in clearance time for air freight in 2021 by Kenya Revenue Authority, Integrated Customs Management Systems(iCMS)
68% reduction in average time taken
(from 97 hours
in 2017 to 31 in 2023)
to process trade documents across trade nodes supported by TMA’s digital interventions.
81% reduction in customs clearance time
(9 hours to
1)
in 2019 to 2023 at Uganda’s Ntoroko Lake Port due to TMA’s IBM interventions.
70% annual increase in sales
on the iSOKO Platform with 95,600 traders (90% women) in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda onboarded as of May 2025.
For grain and pulses signed at a single regional forum in Tanzania in 2024.
Cross Border Trade
Policy and implementation support for enhanced intra-regional connectivity and coordination of trade corridors promotes increasing trade volumes
$950,000 value of sales realised
from 3,200 MT of grain traded in Kenya and Uganda in red sorghum, white maize, green grams and beans, from one intervention in 2024.
153% (370 products to 567) increase
in the common list of goods traded under Simplified Trade Regime between 2023 and 2024, resulting in expanded market access, especially for Small-Scale Cross Border Traders.
Mordernised between 2011 and 2024 with, for example, 58% reduction in transport and border crossing times, and 36% reduction in costs Goli/Mahagi border.
Infrastructure & Logistics
Reducing time and cost of trading at ports and along transport corridors enhances trade flows and supports access to ‘green export markets’
83% reduction in time taken (from 59 hours in 2013 to 10 in 2023)
from queuing to clearance in Elegu, Uganda.
60,000 tonnes of bulk fertiliser
offloaded at the Port of Lamu, the first Ethiopian import through Lamu since its operationalisation in 2022, and in time for Ethiopia’s main planting season. This followed TMA-funded pre-feasibility diagnostic study of the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor, and a TMA-convened LAPSSET Corridor Technical Committee Meeting held between Ethiopia and Kenya in February 2024.
90% cargo tonnage surge at the Port of Mombasa between 2019 and 2023.
recorded at The Goli-Mahagi OSBP,
driven by the introduction of trade facilitation measures like the
Integrated Border Management (IBM) system.
100% rise in total trade volumes (from $17 million in 2019 to $40 million in 2022)
with TMA contributing through key infrastructure improvement programmes at the Port. During the same period, select Container Freight Stations (CFS) recorded a 140% surge in handled cargo volumes.
46% reduction in average travel time (145 minutes to 78)
for users of Magongo Road, Airport Road, Port Reitz Road, Kipevu Road in Mombasa between 2019 and 2023.
38% reduction
in travel time (10 hours to 6)
on the completed Hargeisa Bypass in Somaliland between 2020 and
2023.
Standards, Sanitary & Phytosanitary
Supporting harmonisation and implementation of standards by governments, and compliance by private sector improves the quality and value of exports
Including 41 gazetted for
edible oils, supporting a
$2 billion trade sector12
79% reduction
(from $79 in 2020 to
$17)
in cost of testing samples between 2019 and 2023.
57% reduction
(from 40 days to an
average of 17)
in testing time between
2019 and 2023.
44% reduction of time
(7 months in
2017 to 4 in 2023)
to certify goods.
3,455 cross border traders’ capacity built
on the Simplified Trade Regime (STR) – 2019 in Kenya and 1,436 in Uganda, improving their access to markets and boosting incomes.
79% reduction
(from $79 in 2020 to
$17)
with interventions at 30 borders in 7 countries between 2018 and 2024.
People
Structured, formal trade fosters sustainable trade flows, economic growth and poverty reduction
To formal trade between 2018 and 2024 via cooperatives against a target of 20,0005, improving their market access and recording 15% higher trade values.