Malaba, Uganda – March 12, 2025: The Northern Corridor Secretariat, under its Private Sector Investment Promotion Program (PSIP), has launched a groundbreaking initiative aimed at empowering women and youth engaged in cross-border trade. The program targets three key pillars: improving access to information, strengthening business capacity, and providing financial support to boost resilience and economic stability among small-scale traders.

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.