Sauti East Africa combines innovative technologies with proven deep expertise to empower women as forces of change in markets, communities, and households.
INFORMATION PLATFORM TECHNOLOGIES
We develop technologies to improve women and youth-led MSMEs’ access to information, business opportunities, and markets.
RESEARCH & EVIDENCE
We combine impact and data collection to understand the best opportunities for women’s economic empowerment.
Our mobile information service delivers real-time market prices, exchange rates, information updates, and trade procedures to traders across East Africa.
TRADE & MARKET INFORMATION PLATFORMS
Analyse, segment, and extract actionable insights on East African cross-border trade using our interactive data dashboard.
SAUTI TRADE & MARKET INSIGHTS
Design, test, and deploy survey and monitoring tools remotely using our end-to-end mobile data collection solutions.
SAUTI SURVEYS & DATA COLLECTION
Why we build technologies for women in trade
Using technology to empower women-led businesses has ripple effects that can help create lasting change for households, communities, and market systems. That’s why we put women as traders, producers, and customers at the centre of our products, services and delivery models.
We have reached over 137,000 users in “low-technology” environments and conducted gender-sensitive research and technology design in six African countries.
Evaluating the Digitization Of Justice During Covid-19 In Kenya And Rwanda
Evaluating the Digitization Of Justice During Covid-19 In Kenya And Rwanda
Sauti East Africa in collaboration with Kituo Cha Sheria and Legal Aid Forum Rwanda has produced a report on the impact of ICT in the justice sector among the poor and the vulnerable in Kenya and Rwanda.
Trends And Patterns in Resilience and Innovation by Informal Cross Border Traders in East Africa: Case Study of Youth and Female-Owned Businesses Before & Post-Covid-19
Trends And Patterns in Resilience and Innovation by Informal Cross Border Traders in East Africa: Case Study of Youth and Female-Owned Businesses Before & Post-Covid-19
Sauti East Africa, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme, has produced a report comparing business activities of youth and female-owned businesses before & after-COVID-19. This report presents a quantitative understanding of the trends and patterns in resilience and innovation by informal cross-border trade (ICBT) in East Africa.
Agricultural value chains are critical for East Africa’s economic growth and development. Our 2024 MSME factsheet report provides a comprehensive resource detailing the agricultural sector and broader MSME landscape in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania.
Women and youth are pivotal to East Africa’s trade development agenda. We present a stakeholder mapping of trade associations, women and youth-focused trade groups, and private-sector organizations that are driving youth and women-led trade across East Africa.
Agricultural value chains are critical for East Africa’s economic growth and development. Our 2024 MSME factsheet report provides a comprehensive resource detailing the agricultural sector and broader MSME landscape in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania.
Women and youth are pivotal to East Africa’s trade development agenda. We present a stakeholder mapping of trade associations, women and youth-focused trade groups, and private-sector organizations that are driving youth and women-led trade across East Africa.