Earlier this year Imani Development presented the newly revised ‘Handbook for Sustainable Coffee Production in Malawi’ to the Coffee Association of Malawi.
This handbook includes information and guidelines for the development of Malawi’s coffee sector, with specific detail for both smallholders and estates. Building on information from previous Malawian and regional coffee publications, it provides new […]
The Tripartite Summit, involving Heads of State and Governments from 26 African countries that took place in Egypt between 7 and 10 June 2015, set the stage to launch the COMESA, EAC and SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA). This is in line with the agreement reached by the Tripartite Sectoral Committee of Ministers meeting in Burundi […]
This project aimed to understand the interrelations between the three RECs and the policy framework of the proposed FTA in order to formulate the EAC private sector’s position on the negotiations. The main objectives of the consultancy were to:
Carry out an comparative analysis of the EAC, COMESA, and SADC economies
Analyse the current and potential imports […]
The outcome was to deliver technical assistance to the Government of Swaziland leading to the development of policies and capacities essential for it to benefit from opportunities arising from global trade liberalisation (WTO; DFQF under EU/EPA and US/AGOA) and various bilateral trade agreements and its membership of the three above mentioned RECs. Imani developed Swaziland’s Aid […]
The purpose of this training project was to build capacity of each of the member states of the ESA EPA configuration in preparing for negotiations in services and specifically in preparing their schedules of commitments in the EAP negotiations.
Imani carried out three day training courses for each of the English-speaking countries involving public and private […]
This project looked to strengthen Human and Institutional Capabilities in the negotiations of and Implementation of WTO Agreements and other trade negotiations inclusive of the Development of an Effective Trade Policy for Seychelles given fisheries as main economic driver. This included strengthening the institutional and human resources capacity of the Ministry of Finance and other […]
This project aimed to support the Mauritian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Co-operation (MFAITC) in preparing for Services Negotiations in the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union.
The objectives of the project were to:
Identify the services, at micro level, that can be (or is already being) exported from Mauritius;
Identify the constraints hindering exports […]
Imani implementated a programme of activities towards trade negotiations capacity building for the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Malawi (MoIT), funded by DFID’s Trade Advocacy Fund (TAF). The project focused primarily on two trade negotiations areas: the drafting of a new trade negotiations framework for Malawi, as well as designing a trade negotiations management […]
Imani has been contracted to deliver a project on behalf of the Trade Advocacy Fund (TAF), in response to a request from the Lesotho Ministry of Trade, Industry, Cooperatives and Marketing (MTICM), looking to strengthen the trade negotiations capacity of Lesotho. The overall expected outcome of the project was to enable more effective participation of Lesotho […]
The Development of Global Gap Equivalence & Internationally Recognised Leading Ethical Standards for Ethiopian Horticulture project attempted to allow the industry to be benchmarked against international standards to give credibility and satisfy international buyers. The overall objectives of the evaluation was to; provide recommendations for both future project implementation and their partnership agreements, provide independent […]
