Sauti East Africa focuses on enabling women to securely, legally, and lucratively trade across the borders of East Africa. Rapid changes in markets, communities, and households have made Sauti Innovate technologies with proven deep professionalism is used to empower women. The only requirement needed is a mobile phone in order to access the verified trade procedures, market prices, exchange rates, weather information, and updates in local languages without the need for an internet connection. You can do all this using a mobile phone via USSD, SMS, or WhatsApp.
Creation of robust and purposeful designs are made by Sauti. They enable income increase, productivity, and flexibility of the communities that are marginalized. The impacts of the solutions are:
- Providing a platform that makes USSD, SMS, and WhatsApp for verification aiming for particular needs of a project.
- Involvement of the operators and putting them at the center of the platform. With this, the users can address the challenges they face in keeping up with the business.
- Problem-solving solutions are proven to be potential for the challenges addressed. Reduction of distribution costs and enhancement of scale is made.
The solutions provided by Sauti are data-driven ensuring that they can be adopted. The results are measured and effective program planning. It is through:
- Adopting to track advancement. -Through monitoring, evaluation, and learning MEL plans and frameworks all this is integrated.
- Programme decisions whereby there is maximized adoption. Investments that were set for innovation are returned.
- Knowledge of what the stakeholders want depends on the information provided.
It’s normally very difficult to gain access to information and how to find opportunities for trading across borders. Negotiation for reasonable prices in foreign markets is still a challenge for the majority of the people. There is no need to worry anymore. Trade and market information platform for Sauti directly works on those challenges. They go ahead to find a solution to enhancing small-scale affordability in East Africa. Sauti also finds means that can lead to productivity.
Impacts of Sauti .
Traders have managed to find goods that they can trade in.68 % of the traders have managed to do so.
90 % of the traders have as well found new markets for their goods.
The gazette border has helped traders to be more enlightened of the necessities needed when clearing their products .76 % of the traders have acquired the information.
Taxes applicable to their consignments is made aware to them thanks to Sauti.57 % of the dealers are aware of this now.
