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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q4 2021/Q1 2022
- 28 June 2022
- Posted by: Berfin Karaman
- Categories: Sauti Data Insights, Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin, Updates
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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. -
Sauti’s Quarterly User Insights Report: January – March 2022
- 20 April 2022
- Posted by: Berfin Karaman
- Categories: Sauti User Insights, Updates
In this quarterly report, we have analysed user growth and interactions with the Sauti market and trade information platforms in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda.
2022 Q1 saw 6,474 new users access all our regional platforms. Our Kenyan platform saw the majority of growth with 5657 new users, followed by Tanzania with 410 new users. Since our Q3-Q4 2021 Report, trade within domestic markets has increased in Tanzania by 5 percentage points to 86% while the country’s cross-border trade has decreased by 5 percentage points up to 14%.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q3/Q4 2021
- 10 February 2022
- Posted by: Berfin Karaman
- 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. -
A Cross Border Trade Reporting Experiment from Kenya Small-Scale Cross Border Trader, Corruption, and Mobile Phones
- 10 February 2022
- Posted by: Berfin Karaman
- Categories: 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 Quarterly User Insights Report: October – December 2021
- 24 January 2022
- Posted by: Berfin Karaman
- Categories: Sauti User Insights, Updates
2021 Q4 saw 10,667 new users access all our regional platforms. Our Kenyan platform saw the majority of growth with 9,190 new users, followed by Uganda with 780 new users. Since our Q2-Q3 2021 Report, trade within domestic markets has decreased in Tanzania by 5 percentage points to 81% while the country’s cross-border trade has increased by 5 percentage points up to 19%
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Building Food Security Resilience Through Market Access for Small Scale Traders and Farmers
- 29 November 2021
- Posted by: Berfin Karaman
- Category: Newsletter
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a global economic recession which has resulted in a dramatic loss of livelihoods and income on a global scale. Given the outsized impact on food insecurity throughout Africa, the resulting drop in purchasing power among those who lost income has had a major impact especially for those populations that were already vulnerable. In particular, those in the informal economy are most affected.
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Driving Livelihood Improvement Through Community Radio Across Kenya and Uganda Border
- 29 November 2021
- Posted by: Berfin Karaman
- Category: Newsletter
In many parts of the developing countries around the world, community radio acts as a vehicle used to promote development at the grass-root level. Non-profit, civil societies, multinational companies, and citizens work with community radios on various social and economic issues ranging from poverty, agriculture, gender inequality, education, and marketing among others.
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Impact Change Story: Emily Rayamo
- 29 November 2021
- Posted by: Berfin Karaman
- Category: Newsletter
Emily Achieng Rayamo is both a retail trader and a social worker working with Pillars care farmers foundation in Migori. Emily comes from Suna eastward under Kakrao in Rayabhi village in Migori County, Kenya. The region is a large producer of sugarcane, sweet potatoes, maize, and beans. Emily’s primary source of income is retail trade in agricultural commodities including cereals and vegetables. She has had her business for four years.
