Impact Results
Impact Results by Theme
Digital Trade Systems
Harnessing innovations in AI and open ledger technology bolsters proven efficiencies in access, security and transparency for digitised trade processes.
In public and private sector between 2010 and 2024, cutting average transaction costs by 50%
in 2021 by traders using Uganda Electronic Single Window.
in claim processing time in August 2023 with digitisation of the Warehouse Receipt System (WRS) Form 7 in Tanzania.
in permit issuance time on the Mifugo Integrated Management Information System (MIMIS) in Tanzania, with 100% increase in government revenue collection from the system in 2024.
in clearance time for air freight in 2021 by Kenya Revenue Authority, Integrated Customs Management Systems (iCMS)
to process trade documents across trade nodes supported by TMA’s digital interventions.
in 2019 to 2023 at Uganda’s Ntoroko Lake Port due to TMA’s IBM interventions.
on the iSOKO Platform with 95,600 traders (90% women) in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda onboarded as of May 2025.
Cross Border Trade
Policy and implementation support for enhanced intra-regional connectivity and coordination of trade corridors promotes increasing trade volumes
For grain and pulses signed at a single regional forum in Tanzania in 2024.
from 3,200 MT of grain traded in Kenya and Uganda in red sorghum, white maize, green grams and beans, from one intervention in 2024.
in the common list of goods traded under Simplified Trade Regime between 2023 and 2024, resulting in expanded market access, especially for Small-Scale Cross Border Traders.
Infrastructure & Logistics
Reducing time and cost of trading at ports and along transport corridors enhances trade flows and supports access to ‘green export markets’
Mordernised between 2011 and 2024 with, for example, 58% reduction in transport and border crossing times, and 36% reduction in costs Goli/Mahagi border.
from queuing to clearance in Elegu, Uganda.
offloaded at the Port of Lamu, the first Ethiopian import through Lamu since its operationalisation in 2022, and in time for Ethiopia’s main planting season. This followed TMA-funded pre-feasibility diagnostic study of the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor, and a TMA-convened LAPSSET Corridor Technical Committee Meeting held between Ethiopia and Kenya in February 2024.
recorded at The Goli-Mahagi OSBP, driven by the introduction of trade facilitation measures like the Integrated Border Management (IBM) system.
with TMA contributing through key infrastructure improvement programmes at the Port. During the same period, select Container Freight Stations (CFS) recorded a 140% surge in handled cargo volumes.
for users of Magongo Road, Airport Road, Port Reitz Road, Kipevu Road in Mombasa between 2019 and 2023.
on the completed Hargeisa Bypass in Somaliland between 2020 and 2023.
Standards, Sanitary & Phytosanitary
Supporting harmonisation and implementation of standards by governments, and compliance by private sector improves the quality and value of exports
Including 41 gazetted for edible oils, supporting a $2 billion trade sector
in cost of testing samples between 2019 and 2023.
in testing time between 2019 and 2023.
to certify goods.
People
Structured, formal trade fosters sustainable trade flows, economic growth and poverty reduction
To formal trade between 2018 and 2024 via cooperatives against a target of 20,000, improving their market access and recording 15% higher trade values.
on the Simplified Trade Regime (STR) – 2019 in Kenya and 1,436 in Uganda, improving their access to markets and boosting incomes.
with interventions at 30 borders in 7 countries between 2018 and 2024.
