In this quarterly report, we have analysed user growth and interactions with the Sauti platforms in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. Over the past three months, Sauti gained 2,717 new users. Most of this growth has come from our Tanzania platform which we launched in February earlier this year. […]
The Council of Governors invited Sauti to train women on the use of our mobile business information platform during a sensitization and capacity building workshop focused on the impact of COVID-19 on women’s socio-economic activities. The meeting was held in Vihiga county in the western part of Kenya. […]
Sauti has officially partnered with Agricultural Market and Development Trust (AGMARK). AGMARK is a not-for-profit development organization with a regional presence in 18 countries in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa. AGMARK’s mission is to improve incomes and food security of smallholder farmers in Africa through agricultural development facilitation. […]
Sauti is pleased to have supported Columbia University’s work under Global Integrity’s Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) programme. Graduate students from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs have written a report on Ethical Cross Border Trading which highlights the gendered nature of corruption in East Africa. There is a need for policy makers and influencers to have a gender lens when forming policies and having well defined structures for accountability that will reduce the ripple effects of corruption on women traders who make up part of vulnerable communities in East Africa’s cross-border eco-system. […]
Sauti is excited to be implementing a new project under TradeMark East Africa’s Women in Trade (WiT) programme in Kenya. With funding from Danida, WiT seeks to contribute to the greater inclusion of women in trade as one of the pathways to increased business competitiveness and increased trade within Kenya and East Africa. Sauti is working with partners TruTrade and Partner Africa to support women in agricultural trade in Kenya with access to information, access to markets and training. Sauti’s activities include expanding the information content on our mobile information platform to better serve women traders and farmers, and adding WhatsApp as a new channel of communication for our information services! […]