We fund and implement programmes that aim to transform the performance of key sectors in East Africa by tackling both immediate constraints and long-term structural challenges. Ultimately we look to build competitive and profitable sectors with the mechanisms to adapt to future circumstances, ensuring sustainable growth while creating jobs and raising incomes.
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We have built and continue to support a number of independent organisations in East Africa dedicated to sector transformation. These are governed, managed and staffed by local people. The aim is to empower people who have the local knowledge, experience and networks necessary for success, while building long-term capacity within East Africa to drive sector change.
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We are working with local institutions to restructure Tanzania's cotton sector and build supportive markets to ensure more than 400,000 farmers can access the quality inputs and training they need to improve agronomy, increase yields and boost incomes.
We have established the Textile Development Unit in Tanzania’s Ministry of Industry and Trade. The Unit is tasked with developing the resources and skills needed to create the right environment for increased foreign and domestic investment into the sector.
We have set-up the Forestry Development Trust – an independent institution working with the public and private sectors to transform the Tanzanian forestry sector by increasing the supply of higher-value wood products and energy from sustainable sources while promoting smallholders’ profitable participation in the sector.
We are supporting stakeholders to close Kenya’s wood supply gap through commercial forestry. We are partnering with the private and public sector to catalyse increased productivity and quality, and secure a sustainable supply of commercial support services and collaborative research.
