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Sauti East Africa: Students Use Tech to Increase Legal, Safe, and Profitable Trade in Africa

Traders are commonly unaware of their rights and the required customs, procedures, and documentation involved in cross-border trade, making them vulnerable to abusive practices. Sauti helps to simplify access to this information using mobile-based trading tools and platforms to report incidents of corruption and harassment, and has facilitated 30,000 information requests from 4,500 cumulative users across the region. With help from Lambda Co-op and Social Impact Manager Jessica Wilkinson, Sauti has partnered with Lambda School to develop four unique projects to improve usability and reach of the platform, including incorporating new tools and technologies. […]

Presentation to Sustainable Inclusive Aid for Trade Symposium 2019, Nairobi

On Sept 19 2019, the CTO of Sauti, Lance Hadley presented research titled Innovating Past Data Collection Obstacles for East Africa’s Women Cross-Border Traders: Evidence from Sauti East Africa to the Sustainable Inclusive Aid for Trade Symposium in Nairobi.

The research proposes an experimental survey methodology for hidden populations, such as cross-border traders (CBTs) in East Africa. Recognizing the empowering role of cross-border trade for women in East Africa, interventions that reduce gendered barriers to small-scale trade are increasingly sought-after by policy-makers and development practitioners. Yet, collecting data that reliably maps the behaviour of difficult to sample populations, such as women CBTs, has typically […]

Standing Strong for Women in the EAC Integration: IIDEA Puts Focus on Women Empowerment

Sauti’s participation in the GIZ-EAC Programme “Support to the East African Community Integration Process” commits to supporting equal participation and representation of the interests of women and men in political decision-making processes in the EAC integration process […]

IIDEA Impact Video – East African Citizens Doing the Extraordinary

Sauti is featured in IIDEA’s “East African Citizens Doing the Extraordinary”, the Incubator for Integration and Development East Africa incubates small-scale regional integration projects which proposed and implemented by civil society and the private sector. […]

Kicking off GI-ACE: 3 Anti-Corruption Themes & 14 Projects

Sauti will participate in a project led by Jacqueline Klopp of Columbia University to run randomized controlled trials and explore the functioning of a mobile-based platforms in assisting traders to address corruption on the Kenya-Uganda border. […]

Sauti in the Economist: The river between Informal trade is ubiquitous in Africa, but too often ignored

Sauti is mentioned in the Economist’s article describing how border towns—and national economies—are shaped by small retailers slipping between countries. […]

Sauti at CEBIT 2018

From 11th to 15th of June 2018, Make-IT in Africa has invited Sauti along with 20 start-ups from six countries to Germany to participate at the CEBIT 2018. […]

Sauti featured in the Atlas of Innovation for Economic Stability

Sauti was featured as one of four Kenyan innovators in new global publication: The Atlas of Innovation for Economic Stability, which identifies innovations across the world that create stable incomes and futures. […]