On Friday 14th Oct 2022, the Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) project steering committee and the technical working group leaders met to further deliberate on the selected topical areas to obtain consensus. The Centre for the Promotion of Imports (CBI) funds the WEE project to improve the coordination of gender-responsive business support services. This will lead…
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As the world celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, concern arose regarding women’s participation in the AfCFTA. This is because of recent studies showing that fewer women than men are well prepared to take advantage of the trade and economic opportunities that AfCFTA presents. And this is despite 75% of most cross-border traders in…
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The county government has committed herself to help alleviate the living conditions of the traders decentralized into various directorates to enable easy administration and a hands-on approach to problems affecting the traders, cross-border traders included. The directorates include the Cooperative Enterprise Development Fund (CEDF) whose mandate is to provide affordable loans with low interest to…
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