Resource Library

COVID-19 has imposed extreme challenges for East Africa’s micro and small enterprise traders. The Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin leverages Sauti East Africa's unique analytical perspective to document traders’ changes in business behaviour in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We present key findings on the economic impacts of COVID-19 on traders, drawing on behavioural insights from our mobile-based market information platforms in Kenya and Rwanda. 

Using treatment and control groups, researchers tested whether linking Rwandan youth with the economy, private, and public sectors would improve youth livelihoods. Read more for the results.

Watch the webinar recording, view the presenter's key takeaways, and download presentation slides and other post-event products from the recent seminar.

A new CARE report looks at lessons from eight innovative projects to connect poor people to banks and financial institutions using mobile phones and other means.

The USAID/East Africa Market Linkages Initiative was a two-year regional program to promote growth in food staples and food security, working alongside partners to integrate smallholder farmers into more efficient national and regional markets.

A Youth Financial Services practitioner shares lessons learned from Plan Niger’s youth microfinance pilot program.

The Mali Rice Study provides recommendations for an upgrading strategy to enhance food security and the competitiveness of the rice value chain in Mali.