Cocoa exporters from Uganda participated in the Chocoa Trade Fair in Amsterdam to access new markets and attract new investors. Their participation was part of the support from the International Trade Centre (ITC) for improving the access of Eastern African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)...

The Market Access Upgrade Programme (MARKUP) is a four-year programme funded from the European Union Regional Indicative Programme for EAC under the 11th European Development Fund. It is a regional trade development initiative that provides support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in...

Delegates from the EAC Partner States involved in the EU-EAC MARKUP Programme and representatives of all implementing partners sat together for two days in Arusha from 25 to 26 April 2019 to jointly develop a tailor-made monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system for MARKUP.

Rimini, Italy, May 2019 From 8-10 May 2019, the International Trade Centre (ITC) supported the participation of Kenyan public and private actors operating in the horticultural sector to the Macfrut trade fair in Rimini, Italy. Six Kenyan avocado exporters and four Kenyan institutions, exhibited in...

The International Trade Centre (ITC) hosted a week-long training on building market profiles for Tanzanian agricultural products from 29 April to 3 May 2019. The training programme enabled trade practitioners from public and private entities to develop market feasibility studies for given products....