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The goal of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Southern Africa Trade Hub is to increase international competitiveness, intra-regional trade and food security in Southern Africa.

With a team of regional and international experts based in Gaborone, Botswana, the Trade Hub provides targeted technical assistance to governments, the private sector and civil society organizations to advance regional trade within Southern Africa while incorporating gender integration, environment compliance and strategic outreach in all activities.

As a regional program the Trade Hub works to:

Reduce time and costs of transporting goods across borders by deploying modern trade facilitation tools such as coordinated border management, customs connectivity and national single windows along key transport corridors which include the Coast to Coast, the Beira and Dar es Salaam corridors.
Strengthen the competitiveness of the grain, soy and groundnut value chains by reducing post-harvest losses, introducing better seeds and technologies, strengthening regional agricultural institutions and supporting trade and investment links.
Increase trade and investment in Southern Africa’s textile and apparel sector.
Increase the capacity for regulating and enhancing the clean energy sector to increase investments.
Improve the regional trade, investment and integration enabling environment through legal and regulatory reform.

The Trade Hub supports the USAID Feed the Future program and the African Competitiveness and Trade Expansion (ACTE) initiative. The project is a four-year contract from 2010 – 2014 with a potential one-year extension.

Duration:
September 20, 2010 – September 30, 2014

Contacts:

Chief of Party:
John James
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USAID Project Officer:
Rick J. Gurley
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First Quarter Report Financial Year 2012

23 February 2012

Overview | About SATH

During this quarter, SATH completed several technical reports, including an analysis of recent global and regional experience to draw lessons about the impacts of prevalent domestic trade policies on food security; an analysis of the soy value chain; an assessment of the cotton, textile and apparel industries in Southern Africa; and a border operations assessment at Kasumbalesa between Zambia and the DRC.

Among others, SATH also continued to roll out its integrated border management program, established private sector trade linkages, trained several public and private sector officials and awarded several grants.

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Trade Hub 2011 Annual Report

31 January 2012

Overview | Agricultural Value Chains

During the first year of the project SATH launched a series of new initiatives that lay the foundation for delivering results through the outer years of the project. These include:

Enhancing Trade Liberalization in Southern Africa;
Activities aimed at reducing the time taken to 'Trade across Borders';
Improving energy regulation to encourage investment in clean energy; and,
Activities to increase international and regional trade in the priority value chains.