Sauti Trade Insights
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Smartphone Adoption Among Traders in Kenya and Uganda
- 10 March 2022
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Newsletter, Sauti Trade Insights
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Despite the growth of smartphones among Africa’s urban populations, traders often operate with basic feature phones. This report details findings from Sauti East Africa’s surveys of smartphone access among Kenyan and Ugandan traders. 4,136 participants were surveyed in Kenya and 1,334 in Uganda. Participants were selected from users of Sauti’s market and trade information platform.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q3/Q4 2021
- 10 February 2022
- Posted by: Berfin Karaman
- Categories: Sauti Trade Insights, 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 Trade 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 Data in the UNCTAD Economic Development in Africa Report 2021
- 15 December 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Newsletter, Sauti Trade 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.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q2/Q3 2021
- 15 December 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti Trade Insights, 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.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q1/Q2 2021
- 14 August 2021
- Posted by: Kalia
- Categories: Sauti Trade Insights, 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.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q3/Q4 2020
- 12 March 2021
- Posted by: admin_Lance
- Categories: Sauti Trade Insights, 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 two East African countries: Kenya and Rwanda.
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Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin Q1/Q2 2020
- 17 December 2020
- Posted by: Kalia
- Categories: Sauti Trade Insights, 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 two East African countries: Kenya and Rwanda.