SUCCESS STORIES

Success Story: Storing Up for a Better Future

Success Story: Storing Up for a Better Future

26 February 2013
Cereals

USAID met with Malawi banks and insurers to establish their key individual and collective requirements to finance the warehouse receipt system. Based on this feedback, USAID created comprehensive documentation and held a series of workshops and trainings to enable funding for the system so that farmers can receive the optimum return on their hard work and efforts.
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Success Story: Trade Hub Grant Mobilizes US$10 million

Success Story: Trade Hub Grant Mobilizes US$10 million

10 July 2012
Trade Facilitation
Additional funding will strengthen the Dar Corridor Committee to help remove costly barriers to trade
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Success Story: Botswana Eases Trade Licensing

Success Story: Botswana Eases Trade Licensing

07 June 2012
Trade Liberalization | Trade Facilitation | Investment
Botswana reforms its Trade Act; makes it easier to do business in the country
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Success Story: Swaziland Reforms Investment Climate

Success Story: Swaziland Reforms Investment Climate

07 June 2012
Trade Liberalization | Investment
Swaziland passes a number of laws as part of investment climate reforms
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Success Story: Trade Hub Improves Competitiveness

Success Story: Trade Hub Improves Competitiveness

15 December 2011
Trade Facilitation

Southern African economies are now exporting more diverse products to more places.

SATH’s assistance to Keedo clothing, a high-end children’s clothing company exporting to the US ensured that more than 200 families in the Cape townships kept their incomes. Keedo’s manufacturing suppliers are women-owned, small operations.

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Success Story: USAID Facilitates Implementation and Launch of First RADDEx in Southern Africa

Success Story: USAID Facilitates Implementation and Launch of First RADDEx in Southern Africa

24 March 2010
Trade Facilitation

Though the introduction of the Single Administrative Document (SAD 500) was a major step in trade facilitation in Southern Africa, lack of direct exchange of electronic information between border posts continued to negatively affect transit times.

Success Story: DCC Adopts User Pay Principle for Corridor Sustainability

Success Story: DCC Adopts User Pay Principle for Corridor Sustainability

24 March 2010
Trade Facilitation

The basic tenet of the User Pay Principle is that those who benefit from the corridor should pay for the support of the institution.

Success Story: Facilitating Trade Along the Dar Corridor

Success Story: Facilitating Trade Along the Dar Corridor

30 July 2009
Trade Facilitation

USAID’s Southern Africa Trade Hub facilitated the successful establishment of the Dar Corridor Committee (DCC) Secretariat.

Reducing Transport Costs in Southern Africa

Reducing Transport Costs in Southern Africa

19 November 2008
Trade Facilitation

USAID’s Southern Africa Trade Hub helps lower transport costs and improve trade facilitation.

Success Story: Improving Customs Efficiency

Success Story: Improving Customs Efficiency

19 November 2008
Trade Facilitation

Southern Africa Trade Hub helps Customs Administrators streamline and simplify clearance procedures through WCO Time Release Study.