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KilimoMart – a Mobile Application for Small-Scale Farmers to Sell their Produce all over the EAC Region

KilimoMart – a Mobile Application for Small-Scale Farmers to Sell their Produce all over the EAC Region
Did you hear about the KilimoMart app which links small-scale farmers in Kenya and Uganda to the regional EAC market? KilimoMart is the result of discussions among small-scale farmers in Uganda who were feeling that they were not benefiting from EA integration sufficiently. They were hearing about integration, but they were not feeling that it…
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Giving Voices to EAC Women Cross-Border Traders

Giving Voices to EAC Women Cross-Border Traders
“The decision to formalise my business was a turning point for my little business. I now have a business address and my suppliers and customers know exactly where to find me. And being faithful, often time suppliers give me goods on credit and I pay them back after selling the goods.” This statement, made by…
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Women in Cross-Border Trade Formalise their Business

Women in Cross-Border Trade Formalise their Business
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…
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Digital Shops Replacing Brick & Mortal for Women Traders and Entrepreneurs

Digital Shops Replacing Brick & Mortal for Women Traders and Entrepreneurs
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…
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East African Citizens Doing the Extraordinary – IIDEA Phase Two Has Started

East African Citizens Doing the Extraordinary – IIDEA Phase Two Has Started
The IIDEA program continues to grow from strength to strength, with the announcement of the next round of funded projects across the EAC. Building on the 25 small scale projects already actively fostering integration around the region, the 16 new projects cover (more…)
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Are we Powering Profitable Trade? Inclusive and Sustainable Participation and Empowerment of Women in Trade

Are we Powering Profitable Trade? Inclusive and Sustainable Participation and Empowerment of Women in Trade
IIDEA Partner DMT tested solutions to overcome unprofitable trade targeting women trader cooperatives as well as the women traders’ transactions through the Women Cross Border Traders’ Cooperatives Accelerator Project. Now we can take a closer look at the lessons learnt and best practices. Great strides have been made in facilitating trade in the East African…
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Standing Strong for Women in the EAC Integration: IIDEA Puts Focus on Women Empowerment

Standing Strong for Women in the EAC Integration: IIDEA Puts Focus on Women Empowerment
One of the major guiding principles in achieving the EAC integration is a people-centred and private sector led development as provided for in the Treaty for the establishment of the EAC. The GIZ-EAC Programme “Support to the East African Community Integration Process” is committed to supporting equal participation and representation of the interests of women…
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Women Cross Border Trader Cooperatives Empowered to Transform the Lives of Women

Women Cross Border Trader Cooperatives Empowered to Transform the Lives of Women
The IIDEA Project “Cooperatives Accelerator” has developed an EAC women cross border traders’ cooperatives accelerator model for nascent EAC women traders’ cooperatives. DMT has previously sensitized over 4,800 women traders in Uganda on the EAC trade rules and regulations in a 3 months period. The majority of the women were unaware of their rights under…
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Stop Harassment! Woman Traders Crossing EAC Borders Safely

Stop Harassment! Woman Traders Crossing EAC Borders Safely
The Technical Meeting with the Border Officials in the beginning of May aimed to  identify these information gaps on cross border trade. At the same time the training workshop for cross border women traders at Busia and Malaba borders took place. In engaging different stakeholders and representatives of the groups involved with cross border trade,…
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