Updates
-
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
No Comments
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%.
-
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.
-
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%
-
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.
-
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.
-
Sauti’s Quarterly User Insights Report: July – September 2021
- 8 November 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti User Insights, Updates
2021 Q3 saw 15,408 new users access all our regional platforms. Our Kenya and Uganda platforms saw the majority of growth, mostly driven by sensitization activities throughout each country. We also added new information features to our Kenyan platform: information on health insurance and crop and poultry farming. In all four countries, the majority of price requests remain within domestic markets, however, cross-border trade from Uganda has decreased by 5 percentage points – down to 19% – since our Q1-Q2 2021 Report.
-
Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q1/Q2 2021
- 14 August 2021
- Posted by: Kalia
- 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 four East African countries: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.
-
Sauti’s Quarterly User Insights Report: April – June 2021
- 30 July 2021
- Posted by: Kalia
- Categories: Sauti User Insights, 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.