Enhancing Access to Finance for EAC Women Cross-Border Traders

This report was commissioned by the World Bank Group’s (WBG) financial inclusion support framework program, with financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and with technical...

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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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spelling okr-10986-362092021-08-31T05:10:42Z Enhancing Access to Finance for EAC Women Cross-Border Traders World Bank ACCESS TO FINANCE CROSS-BORDER TRADE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS CUSTOMS UNION GENDER This report was commissioned by the World Bank Group’s (WBG) financial inclusion support framework program, with financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and with technical support from the East African Business Council to provide a diagnostic assessment of the women cross-border trade landscape across the East African Community (EAC). The diagnostic study identified policy and firm-level barriers that limit women’s bankability and financial access generally and during the current Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The objective of this study is to understand the constraints women cross-border traders in the EAC face in accessing finance and carrying out their operations. The study aims to draw insights from prior research, focus-group discussions (FGDs) with women cross-border traders, key stakeholder interviews, and data requests from commercial banks. This report is structured as follows: chapter one gives introduction. Chapter two describes the approach employed for the research; chapter three summarizes the macroeconomic, sociodemographic, and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) landscape of the partner states; chapter four breaks down the structure of trade across the EAC countries; chapter five provides the demand-side findings; chapter six details the supply-side findings; and chapter seven summarizes the key recommendations. Chapter eight includes annexes, including an East African Business Council (EABC) brief on the impact of COVID-19 on the EAC as of April 24, 2020. 2021-08-30T20:42:08Z 2021-08-30T20:42:08Z 2021-06 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/156861629959159396/Enhancing-Access-to-Finance-for-EAC-Women-Cross-Border-Traders-Diagnostic-Study http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36209 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Financial Sector Study Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) East Africa
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topic ACCESS TO FINANCE
CROSS-BORDER TRADE
EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
CUSTOMS UNION
GENDER
spellingShingle ACCESS TO FINANCE
CROSS-BORDER TRADE
EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
CUSTOMS UNION
GENDER
World Bank
Enhancing Access to Finance for EAC Women Cross-Border Traders
geographic_facet Africa
Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
East Africa
description This report was commissioned by the World Bank Group’s (WBG) financial inclusion support framework program, with financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and with technical support from the East African Business Council to provide a diagnostic assessment of the women cross-border trade landscape across the East African Community (EAC). The diagnostic study identified policy and firm-level barriers that limit women’s bankability and financial access generally and during the current Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The objective of this study is to understand the constraints women cross-border traders in the EAC face in accessing finance and carrying out their operations. The study aims to draw insights from prior research, focus-group discussions (FGDs) with women cross-border traders, key stakeholder interviews, and data requests from commercial banks. This report is structured as follows: chapter one gives introduction. Chapter two describes the approach employed for the research; chapter three summarizes the macroeconomic, sociodemographic, and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) landscape of the partner states; chapter four breaks down the structure of trade across the EAC countries; chapter five provides the demand-side findings; chapter six details the supply-side findings; and chapter seven summarizes the key recommendations. Chapter eight includes annexes, including an East African Business Council (EABC) brief on the impact of COVID-19 on the EAC as of April 24, 2020.
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title Enhancing Access to Finance for EAC Women Cross-Border Traders
title_short Enhancing Access to Finance for EAC Women Cross-Border Traders
title_full Enhancing Access to Finance for EAC Women Cross-Border Traders
title_fullStr Enhancing Access to Finance for EAC Women Cross-Border Traders
title_full_unstemmed Enhancing Access to Finance for EAC Women Cross-Border Traders
title_sort enhancing access to finance for eac women cross-border traders
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
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