FinMark Trust has been actively engaged in promoting Regional Financial Integration (RFI) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) since 2010. It based its focus on the results of a baseline study conducted on the Finance and Investment Protocol (FIP), as well as other areas of regional financial integration. The initial study determined some indicators […]
The Fairtrade for Development in Africa (FTDA) grant was both the largest awarded by Comic Relief under its Trade Programme, and the largest grant received by the Fairtrade Foundation. The aim of the FTDA was to contribute to the reduction of poverty in Africa by scaling up the Fairtrade Labelling system as a way of […]
GOAL Malawi is an international organization which has been operating in Malawi since 2002. GOAL Malawi, with funding from Irish Aid and DFID, has been implementing a livelihoods programme in the Nsanje district. The objective of the programme is to increase agriculture productions of cash crops among smallholder farmers and link these farmers to established […]
Falling within Imani’s Transport and Infrastructure capacity, the Economic Impact Study was concerned with identifying and quantifying the economic impact of the proposed Kokstad intersection upgrade in South Africa. In particular, assessment focused on businesses and land use or commercial activities within the construction corridor – mainly the M56 between the N2 intersection and the […]
The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors that prevent or limit SMMEs in South Africa from surviving and/or growing. This study also tested the hypothesis that reduced risk is function of scale and that scale is determined by turnover.
An extensive literature review was conducted in order to ascertain the risk factors […]
TraCCS is an Imani-designed and implemented project supporting 3 strategic value chains in Malawi: tea, coffee and pigeon peas. TraCCS aims to develop more inclusive and sustainable value chains for export and domestic consumption in these three products in a pro-poor and climate smart manner. Imani will work with Malawian medium and large private sector […]
A core part of TMEA’s work going forward (and informing the development of its Strategy 2) is to scale up work on the trade and poverty agenda and to design interventions which have a more direct impact on alleviating poverty. Based on the extensive Cross Border Trade (CBT) work in Rwanda and work with women […]
The purpose of the project was to bolster the capacity of the MEACA in carrying out its role of promoting Uganda’s interests in pursuit of EAC regional integration. Specifically, this project would design and implement a package of support for regional economic integration to MEACA and other ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in Uganda.
The project […]
The overall objective of the project was to support the Republic of South Sudan to finalise conducting pre–entry studies to facilitate South Sudan’s entry into the East African Community (EAC) on favourable terms.
The specific objectives were divided into the key components as listed below:
Review of the Economic Impact of EAC Accession on South Sudan;
Review of […]
Since 2010, TMEA has worked alongside its wide range of partners to invest in increased transport capacity, more efficient border crossings, stronger public and private institutions, new IT and systems technology, and the procesess to strengthen business to play a bigger role in global trade through expanded exports.
As an issue cutting across all trade topics, […]
