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Women in Trade Engagement Activities in Siaya, Makueni, and Kilifi Counties
- 13 August 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Category: Newsletter
No CommentsSauti took the lead on increasing participation of women traders in select sectors through the expansion of its digitized platforms, specifically USSD/SMS and WhatsApp. The targeted project counties included Siaya, Makueni, Kilifi, Migori and Bungoma.
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Sauti Pilots “Sauti Collect” With Danish Refugee Council Project To Promote Food Security
- 13 August 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Category: Newsletter
Sauti in collaboration with Danish Refugee Council (DRC) through the Market Monitoring project kicked off price collection activities across three different market locations: Nairobi, Kakuma and Dadaab.
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Sauti’s Quarterly User Insights Report: April – June 2021
- 30 July 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti Impact Monitoring, Updates
In this quarterly report, we have analysed user growth and interactions with the Sauti platforms in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. The Q2 2021 quarter saw 13,039 new users access the platform. Our Kenya platform saw the largest growth over the quarter, mostly driven by our feature expansion, which now includes: general health, business operations, and agriculture information. In all four countries, the majority of price requests remain within domestic markets, however, cross-border trade from Kenya has increased by nearly 20 percentage points since the Q1 2021 Report.
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What do Kenyan and Ugandan Cross-border Traders Want to Know About COVID-19
- 6 May 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Category: Sauti Impact Monitoring
We are glad to announce that Sauti’s trade and information platform is now available and accessible to anyone, anywhere via WhatsApp. Message “hello” on WhatsApp to +254 20 389 3576 and you’ll be able to explore our free business and social services information, tailored for farmers, traders, and small businesses in East Africa.
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EAC Market and Trade Information on WhatsApp
- 15 April 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Category: Updates
We are glad to announce that Sauti’s trade and information platform is now available and accessible to anyone, anywhere via WhatsApp. Message “hello” on WhatsApp to +254 20 389 3576 and you’ll be able to explore our free business and social services information, tailored for farmers, traders, and small businesses in East Africa.
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Sauti’s Quarterly User Insights Report: January – March 2021
- 13 April 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti Impact Monitoring, Updates
In this quarterly report, we have analysed user growth and interactions with the Sauti platforms in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. Over the past three months, Sauti gained 2,717 new users. Most of this growth has come from our Tanzania platform which we launched in February earlier this year. In July, we added weather information to the Kenyan and Tanzanian platforms, which resulted in over 20 percent of information requests on each of these platforms in the past quarter.
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Sauti CEO Transition
- 7 April 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Category: Newsletter
After three years with Sauti, Mary Rowlatt has decided to step down as CEO to tackle new professional challenges as an independent consultant within the humanitarian and social innovation space. Looking ahead, Lance will serve in an interim CEO capacity to ensure a smooth transition to Sauti’s next stage of growth.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q3/Q4 2020
- 12 March 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti Data Insights, Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin, Updates
This report leverages the unique analytical perspective from Sauti East Africa to document traders’ changes in business behaviour in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For this report, we present behavioural insights from our mobile-based market information platforms in two East African countries: Kenya and Rwanda.
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Sauti’s Quarterly User Insights Report: October – December 2020
- 1 February 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti Impact Monitoring, Updates
In this quarterly report, we have analysed user growth and interactions with the Sauti platforms in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. Over the past three months, Sauti gained 2,717 new users. Most of this growth has come from our Tanzania platform which we launched in February earlier this year. In July, we added weather information to the Kenyan and Tanzanian platforms, which resulted in over 20 percent of information requests on each of these platforms in the past quarter.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q1/Q2 2020
- 17 December 2020
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti Data Insights, Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin, Updates
This report leverages the unique analytical perspective from Sauti East Africa to document traders’ changes in business behaviour in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For this report, we present behavioural insights from our mobile-based market information platforms in two East African countries: Kenya and Rwanda.