Client: U.S. Agency for International Development
Duration: 2016-2022
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country: Regional
Solutions: Economic Growth
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub (USAID TradeHub) engages with partners across the region to increase sustainable economic growth, global export competitiveness, and trade in targeted southern African countries. It supports these objectives by increasing exports from southern African countries to South Africa and the United States (under the https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/trade-development/preference-programs/african-growth-and-opportunity-act-agoa [AGOA]), boosting capital and technology flows from South Africa to other southern African countries, and providing targeted trade facilitation support to Zambia. The USAID TradeHub works with market actors to identify and resolve enterprise constraints and to implement sustainable solutions through market-based trade and investment facilitation services.
The USAID TradeHub works closely with regional governments and the Southern African Development Community on trade policy. The USAID TradeHub’s strategy reflects an increased focus on its exit strategy and reorientation from a direct delivery model to a market systems approach. This involves strengthening the ability of market actors with which the USAID TradeHub has been working to date—trade promotion service providers, investment firms, and other financial service providers—to continue to promote trade and investment beyond the life of the Hub.
The USAID TradeHub is based in Pretoria, South Africa, with resident representatives in Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. The program works with Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zambia. The USAID TradeHub is also exploring potential activities in Angola.
How the USAID TradeHub works:
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