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The call for idea submission, which ended on 26 January 2021, led to an overwhelming response. The IIDEA/IRTF team received over fifty applications. Out of these, 35 passed the basic eligibility criteria and are now being pre-selected by the technical experts from the EAC Secretariat and EAC-GIZ. The 12 top-scored ideas will take part in a virtual Hackathon in March 2021. This will further improve and sharpen their projects ideas before the final...

     

The Arusha Team of IIDEA wishes all IIDEA Colleagues, Partners, Friends and Supporters and their families a wonderful festive season with plenty of time to spend with your loved ones, and we hope you have a great start to the New Year 2021. Thank you all very much for your valuable contribution and solidarity in this unique and challenging year.We look forward to a continued fruitful cooperation in 2021! The IIDEA Team in Arusha

Apply Now! The Incubator for Integration and Development in East Africa (IIDEA) and the Intra-Regional Trade Facility (IRTF) are inviting private sector and civil society organizations in East African Community Partner States to submit their innovative ideas. IIDEA calls for ideas in the areas of digitalization/ICT, health and stakeholder’s engagement on Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Project ideas in Agri-business, touri...

AgriLink TZ: Technology 4 improved leather production Environmentally friendly technologies in leather production to improve quality and production, and increase income, employment and market access of marginalized women and youth in Tanzania and Kenya - that's the big goal of the IIDEA project by Agri-Link Tanzania, supported by GIZ Tanzania & EAC. Watch in their video how ALT seize the opportunity to work with women and youth to grow a m...

Intra-Regional Trade Facility (IRTF) partner East African Women in Business Platform (EAWiBP) successfully held a workshop to launch the project Value Addition for Increased Market Access in the Moringa Sector from 25th to 27th November 2020 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The workshop included a training for women in the moringa value chain from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda on branding, packaging, and standard certification. As a result of this pro...

The IIDEA project carried out by Base for Education Dissemination (BED) collects and documents experiences and success stories of women in cross-border trade in the Mara region of Tanzania and Migori in Kenya with a view to encouraging more women to recognise the competitive advantage of regional trade opportunities and become involved. “We are very thankful for the project for providing us with a platform of making our voices and wishes kn...

Enhancing Women’s Participation in Uganda and Kenya The grain sector is probably the most important sub-sector within the agricultural sector. Maize, wheat, rice and pulses are by far the most important food commodities in East Africa. Production of these food staples varies greatly from country to country, creating natural opportunities for trade between East African countries based on comparative advantages and climatic conditions for crop...

USAGA’s project ‘EAC Youth Tour Guides Network’ is about linking young aspiring tourist guides in Kenya and Uganda through an online portal to professional guides and associations, with the aim of enhancing their skills and ensuring a sustainable tourism sector in the future. One of the key outputs is helping guides to create touristic itineraries which can be marketed across the region. Women, who historically have not been well represente...

WITU developed www.amaduka.com, an online marketplace for women-owned micro and small businesses across East Africa, starting with Uganda and Kenya. With this innovative online market place, WITU has taken up the challenge of making the Fourth Industrial Revolution work for women in business. Many of them are left behind by this fundamental change, in which the physical and digital worlds are merging. They are still limited to brick-and mortar-sh...