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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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | 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 |
| Summary: | 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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