EAC Market Place

The EAC Market Place is an information product under our business and industry advisory services.

Through the EAC Market Place, ATEAS provides EAC businesses, especially MSMEs with sector specific trade and market intelligence that includes the following:

  • Data backed sector characteristics such as market size, competition, growth trends and prospects
  • Key trade and investment opportunities in the sector
  • Sector legal, regulatory and operating environment
  • Sector entry strategies
  • Main players in the sector

The main aim of the EAC Market Place is to go beyond the rhetoric of ‘expanded market’ arising from the EAC Common Market Protocol, to actually establish where the opportunities lie in each sector, with a  view to enhancing MSMEs knowledge of these sectors, thereby guiding their decisions on how to get involved.

The information will be provided in the form of 50- 75 pages B5 sized Sector Guides, written in an ordinary business person language and availed in both soft and hard copies. These will be supplemented by 5-7 pages summarised Sector Guides bulletins that will provide a snap-shot of the sector dynamic and opportunities.

ATEAS has received an incubation grant from the EAC-GIZ Incubator for Integration and Development in East Africa (IIDEA) to produce two sector guides in the Processed Fruit Juice and Finished Leather Products markets under the EAC Market Place  brand. IIDEA is a joint initiative between GIZ and the East African Community (EAC) designed to promote people-centered and market-driven regional integration in East Africa.

ATEAS has also partnered with leading business organisations such as the East African Business Council (EABC) as well as trade promotion bodies such as the Export Promotion Council of Kenya to produce and disseminate the guides.

Our Partners

IIDEA is a joint initiative between GIZ and the East African Community (EAC) designed to promote people-centered and market-driven regional integration in East Africa. IIDEA incubates small-scale regional integration projects which are proposed and implemented by civil society and private sector across East Africa. IIDEA provides technical and financial support to innovative projects across East Africa that highlight and contribute towards East African integration. The goal of IIDEA is to ensure that ‘East African integration is lived because the East African citizens understand the benefits of people-centered and market-driven regional integration’.

More information on the IIDEA initiative is available on www.eaciidea.net   

 

 

The Export Promotion Council (EPC) was established on 19th August, 1992 by the Government through Legal Notice No. 4342, with the mandate of developing and promoting Kenyan exports. The Council was mandated to address bottlenecks facing exporters and producers of export goods and services in order to increase the performance level of the export sector; formulate export market strategies and endeavour to promote an export culture; provide a forum for constant dialogue between relevant public and private sector organizations for the purpose of consensus building on issues affecting exports.

ATEAS has partnered with EPC to produce the guides; support their dissemination through hosting them on the EPC website and distributing them to relevant stakeholders, as well as mobilizing Kenyan participants for the dissemination workshops.

More information on EPC and their services is available on their website: www.epc.go.ke

Our Partners

The East African Business Council (EABC) is the umbrella body of the private sector in the EAC Region. It was established in 1997 to foster the interests of the Private Sector in the integration process of the East African Community. EABC’s overarching objective is to be an effective change agent for fostering an enabling business environment and to promote private sector’s regional and global competitiveness in trade and investment. EABC therefore provides a regional platform through which the business community can present their concerns at the EAC policy level, with the overall aim of creating a more conducive business environment through targeted policy reforms.

Given EABC’s wide networks, ATEAS has partnered with EABC to support dissemination of the guides through hosting them on the EABC website as well as distributing them to their networks.

More information on EABC and their services is available on their website: www.eabc.info

The East African Women in Business Platform (EAWiBP) is a forum that brings together business-women from across the East African Community (EAC). Its membership comprises national apex bodies/ associations/ networks of business-women (including associations of women formal and informal cross-border traders); professional women associations; and civil society organizations working to promote business-women and women’s socio-economic advancement. Drawing its mandate from the Treaty for the Establishment of East African Community, particularly under Article 121 and 122, EAWiBP’s vision is to become “A Women’s Centre of Excellence for Intra and Extra-EAC Trade”. It’s mission is; “Position and Catalyze the Participation of Women in EAC’s Integration Process”.

Under the EAC Market Place, EAWiBP has partnered with ATEAS to ensure that as many women entrepreneurs as possible are made aware of the guide and will utilize it to enhance their participation across the EAC market.