Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trade Facilitation Training Programme: Trainer’s Manual: Module 1

Original Language
English
ISBN (PDF)
978-92-9268-606-2
Number of Pages
43
Reference Number
PUB2022/101/EL
Date of upload

26 juin 2023

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Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trade Facilitation Training Programme: Trainer’s Manual: Module 1

Small-scale crossborder trade in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

This is one of the five modules that make up the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trade Facilitation and Human Mobility Trainer’s Manual. The Trainer’s Manual was developed to build the capacities of border management agents and policy practitioners in the areas of trade facilitation, human mobility and migration issues in the COMESA region. Developed under the auspices of the COMESA Small-Scale Cross-Border Traders Initiative, this curriculum was meant to underline the interrelationship between trade and migration. The purpose of this particular module is to demonstrate the widespread nature and importance of small-scale cross-border trade in the economies of the COMESA region and highlight the challenges small-scale cross-border traders face while trading.

Access all the modules here: 

  • List of figures, tables and text boxes
  • Introduction
  • Module 1. Small-scale cross-border trade in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
  • Pre-module warm-up
  • 1.1. Module overview
  • 1.2. Trade facilitation in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
    • 1.2.1. The Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa
    • 1.2.2. Trade facilitation
  • 1.3. Small-scale cross-border trader overview
  • 1.4. Working definition of small-scale cross-border trade
  • 1.5. Impact of small-scale cross-border trade on the economy
    • 1.5.1. Leading source of employment
    • 1.5.2. Contribution to gross domestic product
    • 1.5.3. Contribution to food security
  • 1.6. Challenges faced by small-scale cross-border traders
    • 1.6.1. Guest speakers
    • 1.6.2. The challenges
    • 1.6.3. Challenges before and at the border
  • 1.7. Opportunities
    • 1.7.1. Participant discussion
  • 1.8. Participant recommendations to fill in the gaps
  • 1.9. Participant action plan
  • 1.10. Module wrap-up
  • 1.11. Module conclusion
  • Module 1: Pre- and post-module quiz
  • References