Client: U.S. Agency for International Development
Duration: 2014-2019
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country: Regional
Solutions: Economic Growth
Growth in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda has been robust but uneven, with millions of people left behind in poverty. Women, youth, smallholder farmers, and the poor are not fully represented in policy making or implementation nor integrated into the wider economic community.
The East Africa Trade and Investment Hub was the U.S. Government’s flagship project under the presidential Trade Africa initiative, which works to increase U.S.-Africa trade and investment, regional integration, and competitiveness. The Hub assisted the region’s private sector to engage with the government in finding practical solutions to constraints to trade and investment. The team also built awareness around opportunities for African and U.S. firms to increase trade, expand business partnerships, and invest in East Africa.
Watch this video of Kanini Mutooni, the director for investment at the East Africa Trade and Investment Hub, to see how the project worked:
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