Kenya · Economic development and livelihoods

Trademark Africa

Non-Governmental Organization in Kenya

TradeMark Africa (TMA), formerly TradeMark East Africa, is an Aid-for-Trade organisation that was established in 2010, with the aim of growing prosperity through increased trade. TMA operates on a not-for-profit basis and is funded by: Belgium, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, Finland, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. TMA works closely with regional intergovernmental organisations, including the African Union (AU), the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, the East African Community (EAC), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), national Governments, the private sector and civil society organisations. The first two strategic periods of TMA (2010-2023) have contributed to substantial gains for trade and regional integration in East Africa and the Horn of Africa in terms of decreased cargo transit times (reduction of 16.5% on the Northern Corridor from Mombasa to Bujumbura), improved border efficiency (the time to cross targeted one stop border posts has been reduced by an average of 70%), and reduced barriers to trade. The continental-wide shift and rebrand to TMA was officially launched in West Africa in January 2023, with Ghana being the first country of operations in the region. While continuing to leverage our core expertise in trade facilitation, we will evolve our focus to harness the potential of digitalisation, support African exporters to pioneer low carbon trade, address the core trade factors behind food security and promote inclusive trade. By increasing trade volumes, and enhancing the sustainability and inclusiveness of trade, we aim to deliver large-scale job creation, poverty reduction and enhanced economic growth. In 2022, TMA set up a catalytic finance fund, Trade Catalyst Africa (TCA), that will pilot commercially viable projects for creating trade infrastructure (both physical and digital) as well as increasing access to Trade Finance for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). TMA's headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya. Operations and offices are in: EAC Secretariat - Arusha, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somaliland, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. For more information, please visit www.trademarkafrica.com

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Founded

2010

Accounts

No accounts available from the sources we use.

European Union funding

Amounts committed each year by the European Commission to the organisation (contracts and grants), from the EU Financial Transparency System. A commitment often covers several project years and, in consortia, may include shares of other partners. They are not income for the year and should not be compared directly with the accounts.

Public funds from donor governments

Payments to the organisation reported by the aid agencies of 17 countries (USAID, FCDO, BMZ, Sida and others) in their own IATI data, converted to euros at the year's average rate. They include funds passed on to local partners. Not all donors name the recipient of their payments, so figures may be incomplete; EU funds are in their own section.

Spending on declared projects (IATI)

Only the projects the organisation publishes on IATI: usually a fraction of its total spending (median 14% in our checks).

Countries with projects published on IATI

Kenya ↗ 39 · Tanzania ↗ 34 · Rwanda ↗ 31 · Uganda ↗ 18 · Congo - Kinshasa ↗ 15 · South Sudan ↗ 12 · Burundi ↗ 10 · Somalia ↗ 9 · Côte d’Ivoire ↗ 8 · Djibouti ↗ 8 · Ethiopia ↗ 8 · Ghana ↗ 8 · Malawi ↗ 8 · Mozambique ↗ 8 · South Africa ↗ 8 · Zambia ↗ 8 · Zimbabwe ↗ 8 · Benin ↗ 7

Number of activities published on IATI that mention the country, added up over all years. Platforms that raise funds for other organisations publish every small project as a separate activity. Each country opens on d-portal the list of this organisation’s projects in that country.

Projects published on IATI (most recent and largest)

Titles are shown as published by the organisation, in their original language. Spending = disbursements and expenditure reported on IATI, in US$.

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Official checks

Public register

RCO (Kenya) CPR-2009-5689 — number declared on IATI; that register is not one of our sources of accounts

Facts from public registers and certification bodies, not a judgement on the organisation; the absence of a label is not a negative sign. Methodology

Timeline

1. 2010 Founded
2. 2017-08-01 First publication on IATI

Identifiers

IATI (d-portal) · KE-RCO CPR-2009-5689 · Wikidata