Sauti Data Insights
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East Africa’s Women and Youth-led MSMEs in Agricultural Value-Chains: Factsheet 2024
- 19 November 2024
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Get to know East Africa's Traders, Sauti Data Insights
No CommentsAgricultural 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.
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Mapping Women and Youth-focused Trade Associations in East Africa’s Agricultural Trade
- 4 August 2024
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Get to know East Africa's Traders, Newsletter
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.
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Climate Information And Kenya’s Women Smallholder Farmers
- 31 January 2024
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Get to know East Africa's Traders, Sauti Data Insights
Four out of five women MSMEs report agriculture as their primary economic activity. This report assesses the climate-related information needs of Kenya’s women smallholder farmers with the objective to inform meaningfully relevant and accessible information solutions.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q1/Q2 2022
- 16 August 2022
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti Data Insights, Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin, Updates
This bulletin includes data on Kenyan, Rwandan, Tanzanian, and Ugandan traders. Although an increase was noted between Q1 and Q2 of 2022, cross-border trading continues to stay low in Kenya in comparison to previous years. In addition, we found that in every other country, cross-border trade decreased between Q1 and Q2, indicating that COVID-19 is likely having persistent effects on the levels of activity within the East African trade sector.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q4 2021/Q1 2022
- 28 June 2022
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti Data Insights, Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin, Updates
This COVID-19 bulletin aims to illustrate the changing state of trade in East Africa. Leveraging Sauti’s East Africa’s embeddedness with traders, we present the 2021 Q4/2022 Q1 behavioural and user data from our regional network of trade and market information platforms.
Reporting in this bulletin includes data on Kenyan, Rwandan, Tanzanian and Ugandan traders. In the case of Tanzania, cross-border trade increased or remained high compared to the last quarter. However, we found that in every other country, cross-border trade decreased or remained low. Cross-border traders’ destinations are consistently lower than pre-pandemic levels in Rwanda and Kenya, indicating that COVID-19 is likely having persistent effects on the levels of activity within the East African trade sector.
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Smartphone Adoption Among Traders in Kenya and Uganda
- 10 March 2022
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Get to know East Africa's Traders, Sauti Data Insights
Despite the growth of smartphones among Africa’s urban populations, traders often operate with basic feature phones. This report details findings from Sauti East Africa’s surveys of smartphone access among Kenyan and Ugandan traders. 4,136 participants were surveyed in Kenya and 1,334 in Uganda. Participants were selected from users of Sauti’s market and trade information platform.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q3/Q4 2021
- 10 February 2022
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti Data Insights, Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin, Updates
This COVID-19 bulletin aims to illustrate the changing state of trade in East Africa. Leveraging Sauti’s East Africa’s embeddedness with traders, we present the 2021 Q3/Q4 behavioural and user data from our regional network of trade and market information platforms.
Reporting in this bulletin includes data on Kenyan, Rwandan, Tanzanian and Ugandan traders. With the exception of Kenya, we find that in Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda trade to cross-border destinations either remained low or decreased from last quarter. Comparing the same periods to last year, we find that cross-border trade in Kenya increased for the first time, reversing a year-long trend towards domestic trade destinations.
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A Cross Border Trade Reporting Experiment from Kenya Small-Scale Cross Border Trader, Corruption, and Mobile Phones
- 10 February 2022
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Get to know East Africa's Traders, Newsletter, Sauti Data Insights, Updates
Sauti is pleased to announce the publication of results from our research in partnership with UK Aid Direct, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, and Columbia Climate School under the Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI-ACE) programme. The project explored incentives for corruption and harassment reporting and the feasibility of crowd-sourced data and mobile technologies to support community monitoring of border management. The project was supported by Sauti Collect, where we provided an end-to-end USSD data collection and management system, to collect gender-disaggregated and product-disaggregated data on corruption and harassment at informal borders.
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Sauti’s Data in the UNCTAD Economic Development in Africa Report 2021
- 15 December 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Newsletter, Sauti Data Insights, Updates
UNCTAD’s recently launched Economic Development in Africa Report 2021 features Sauti’s activities providing Trade and Market Information Platforms throughout East Africa. We are excited to be featured in this assessment of how the region can inclusively benefit from the trade potential under the incoming African Continental Free Trade Area. The report draws on demographic, market, and trade insights from our TradeInsights Data Portal covering East Africa’s cross-border trade context.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q2/Q3 2021
- 15 December 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti Data Insights, Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin, Updates
Uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect the trading activities of East African cross-border traders in 2021 Q2/Q3. Proportionally, domestic trade activity remains at an all-time high compared to previous years as East Africa’s traders continue to limit their cross border activities in all surveyed countries.
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