Sauti East Africa – Empowering East Africa's women-led SMEs to trade legally, profitably, and safely across borders

SAUTI EAST AFRICA

CLOSING THE DIGITAL INFORMATION GAP FOR WOMEN IN TRADE

Sauti East Africa empowers women-led small and medium-sized enterprises to trade to legally, safely, and profitably across East Africa’s borders.

WHAT WE DO

Our Services & Products

Sauti East Africa combines innovative technologies with proven deep expertise to empower women as forces of change in markets, communities, and households.

TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

We develop technologies to measurably improve women’s access to information, business opportunities, and markets.

RESEARCH & EVIDENCE

We collect and analyse vital data to understand barriers to women’s economic empowerment.

Our mobile information service delivers real-time market prices, exchange rates, information updates, and trade procedures to traders across East Africa.

TRADE & MARKET INFORMATION PLATFORMS

Analyse, segment, and extract actionable insights on East African cross-border trade using our interactive data dashboard.

SAUTI TRADE INSIGHTS

Design, test, and deploy survey and monitoring tools remotely using our end-to-end mobile data collection solutions.

SAUTI COLLECT

Why we build technologies for women in trade

Using technology to empower women-led businesses has ripple effects that can help create lasting change for households, communities, and market systems. That’s why we put women as traders, producers, and customers at the centre of our products, services and delivery models.

Learn more about our approach.

Featured case studies

We have reached over 53,000 users in “low-technology” environments and conducted gender-sensitive research and technology design in six African countries.

Global Integrity’s Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme RCTs in Kenya

Since 2019, via Sauti Collect, Sauti has been able to offer an end-to-end USSD mobile data collection solution, from survey design and testing, to survey deployment and monitoring of incoming results – all from one user-friendly dashboard.

Sauti Mobile Information Platform Expansion to Tanzania

Having successfully implemented their mobile Trade and Market Information Platform, released in 2017, with more than 19,000 users to date, Sauti has since been able to expand the platform for use in Tanzania.

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News & Updates

COVID-19 Rapid Response Project in Uganda

Sauti and TruTrade together with medical experts Response-Med have developed and disseminated customized COVID-19 awareness and prevention materials including short animated clips and radio ads, specific to the agriculture supply chain actors in Uganda through Sauti and TruTrade digital platforms.

16 August 2021

Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q1/Q2 2021

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.

14 August 2021