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USAID Afghanistan Success Story: Afghan Markets Excel at International Trade Fair [72.05 KB - PDF] - Published: January 1, 2010
Author: USAID

For the third year in a row, Afghan carpet makers and dealers showcased their country’s best handmade carpets at Domotex,the world’s premier flooring trade show, held annually in Hannover, Germany. With financial and logistical support...
USAID South Africa Success Story: DCC Adopts User Pay Principle for Corridor Sustainability [59.65 KB - PDF] - Published: November 1, 2008
Author: USAID

The Dar es Salaam Corridor Committee (DCC) is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) entity involving Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. It facilitates trade by reducing transport costs and transit times on the corridor, which connects markets from the port...
USAID Southern Africa Success Story: Africa Pavilion at MAGIC Welcomes VIP [67.45 KB - PDF] - Published: February 1, 2010
Author: USAID

At the February 2010 MAGIC Apparel Show in Las Vegas, African textile and apparel companies, along with representatives from the three USAID African Trade Hubs, were honored that Ambassador Ron Kirk, United States Trade Representative, visited the...
USAID Southern Africa Success Story: New Ivestment in Mozambique Links Smallholders to U.S. market [92.68 KB - PDF] - Published: April 1, 2009
Author: USAID

Americans can now get a healthy dose of African heat while feeling good about what they are eating and supporting smallholder farmers in Mozambique. In 2009, the USAID Trade Hub assisted Elephant Pepper with securing a new $1.2 million investment to...
USAID Southern Africa Success Story: USAID Facilitates Implementation and Launch of First RADDEx in Southern Africa [48.16 KB - PDF] - Published: February 1, 2010
Author: USAID

As part of the ongoing effort to modernize customs throughout Eastern and Southern Africa, a need was identified to introduce Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions. These solutions are aimed at streamlining cumbersome customs and...
USAID Southern Africa Success Story: USAID-WISHH Partnership Facilitates Sustainable Commercial Relationships in the SADC Region [47.95 KB - PDF] - Published: March 1, 2010
Author: USAID

With Global Development Alliance (GDA) financing, the USAID Southern African Trade Hub partnered with the World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) to establish the Soy in Southern Africa Alliance (SISA) program in 2005. WISHH is managed by...
USAID Southern Africa Success Story: “African Set” Appears in U.S. Supermarkets [158.05 KB - PDF] - Published: January 1, 2009
Author: USAID

Since July 2007, millions of American consumers have been able to select from a wide range of specialty food products from Southern Africa and other corners of the African continent. The “African Set” includes 280 products from 24...
USAID Uganda Success Story: Potato Farmers Fight Poverty in Uganda [450.19 KB - PDF] - Published: March 1, 2009
Author: USAID

“I worked as a government extension assistant for seventeen years. After the government started implementing the World Bank’s Structural Adjustment Programs in 1990, a number of under-educated public servants were removed from active...
USAID West Africa Success Story: A new regional campaign, report and partnership are knocking barriers - [158.79 KB - PDF] - Published: April 1, 2010
Author: USAID

A trucking company in Togo wants to put the logo on billboards. Another in Ghana wants its trucks to carry the message writ large as the vehicles ply primary trade corridors. And government and bilateral donors have joined the partnership to push...
USAID West Africa Success Story: As Alliance Grows, So Does Business [202 KB - PDF] - Published: September 2, 2009
Author: USAID

September 2, 2009, might very well go down as a seminal mo-ment in the history of the world cashew industry: In a breakout meeting room at the African Cashew Alliance’s 4th Annual Conference in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, representatives of...
USAID West Africa Success Story: Changing the Mentality Is the First Step [443.66 KB - PDF] - Published: September 1, 2009
Author: USAID

Campaigns to raise awareness of road harassment – supported by USAID’s West Africa Trade Hub in four West African countries – are helping to change attitudes on the topic. And that is leading to real, even if modest, reductions in...
USAID West Africa Success Story: Civil Society Tackles Road Corruption [212.19 KB - PDF] - Published: March 1, 2009
Author: USAID

The video is shaky and the audio muffled, but the pictures still tell a story worth a thousand angry words: An unscrupulous agent of Ghana’s customs service openly celebrates as he extorts money from travelers crossing the Ghana-Togo border at...
USAID West Africa Success Story: Clearing the Corridors of Commerce [409.72 KB - PDF] - Published: April 1, 2009
Author: USAID

On an average day at the border between Togo and Ghana, truck after truck lines the side of the road with containers full of commercial goods. Once freed from often burdensome border procedures, eastbound truckers will face more delays at the border...
USAID West Africa Success Story: Thanks to AGOA Trade Benefits, Cameroonian Apparel Firm Grows [161.11 KB - PDF] - Published: April 1, 2010
Author: USAID

When an American buyer and customs officials told Cawer, an apparel maker in Cameroon, that its T-shirts did not qualify for duty exemption under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the company’s manager was distressed...

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