On 15th February 2024, the Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority (NCTTCA) and Africa Women Agribusiness Network-Afrika (AWAN AFRIKA) sealed a longstanding partnership culminating in a harmonised joint work plan and a Partnership Agreement (MoU). The MoU is intended to enable the two parties to explore and collaborate in the areas of Regional Socio-Economic Development through co-creation, joint planning, implementing, executing, monitoring, and evaluation of programs in the Northern Corridor Member States, covering; Cross Border Trade, Mainstreaming of social economic dimensions of poverty, Gender, and equity, Resource mobilization for projects agreed upon, as well as any other undertaking involving socio-economic issues affecting regional trade, transit transport and logistics value chains in the East Africa Region.