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 LATEST Climate Information And Kenya’s Women Smallholder Farmers Four out of five women MSMEs report agriculture as their primary economic activity. This report assesses the climate-related information needs of Kenya’s women smallholder farmers with the objective to inform meaningfully relevant and accessible information solutions. READ MORE

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.
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Featured case studies & projects

We have reached over 131,000 users in “low-technology” environments and conducted gender-sensitive research and technology design in six African countries.
Evaluating the Digitization Of Justice During Covid-19 In Kenya And Rwanda
Evaluating the Digitization Of Justice During Covid-19 In Kenya And Rwanda

Sauti East Africa in collaboration with Kituo Cha Sheria and Legal Aid Forum Rwanda has produced a report on the impact of ICT in the justice sector among the poor and the vulnerable in Kenya and Rwanda.

Trends And Patterns in Resilience and Innovation by Informal Cross Border Traders in East Africa: Case Study of Youth and Female-Owned Businesses Before & Post-Covid-19
Trends And Patterns in Resilience and Innovation by Informal Cross Border Traders in East Africa: Case Study of Youth and Female-Owned Businesses Before & Post-Covid-19

Sauti East Africa, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme, has produced a report comparing business activities of youth and female-owned businesses before & after-COVID-19. This report presents a quantitative understanding of the trends and patterns in resilience and innovation by informal cross-border trade (ICBT) in East Africa.

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Our Data & Research

Four out of five women MSMEs report agriculture as their primary economic activity. This report assesses the climate-related information needs of Kenya’s women smallholder farmers with the objective to inform meaningfully relevant and accessible information solutions.

31 January 2024
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This bulletin includes data on Kenyan, Rwandan, Tanzanian, and Ugandan traders. Although an increase was noted between Q1 and Q2 of 2022, cross-border trading continues to stay low in Kenya in comparison to previous years. In addition, we found that in every other country, cross-border trade decreased between Q1 and Q2, indicating that COVID-19 is likely having persistent effects on the levels of activity within the East African trade sector.

16 August 2022
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News & Updates

Four out of five women MSMEs report agriculture as their primary economic activity. This report assesses the climate-related information needs of Kenya’s women smallholder farmers with the objective to inform meaningfully relevant and accessible information solutions.

31 January 2024
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2023 Q3 saw 7,168 new users access all our regional platforms. This report presents our impact monitoring and user behaviour insights from Sauti’s mobile information platform based on usage between 1 July to 30 September, 2023.

30 October 2023
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