Funding Opportunity | Kenya - Ethiopia

05 Mar

by Eleni Rozali

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Call for EOIs: Seed Grant Support for Women Cross-Border Trader Groups

Deadline Date: March 09, 2026

Donor Name: Strategies for Northern Development

Grant Size: $1000 to $10,000

Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya

Language: English

Focus Areas: Entrepreneurship, Literacy, Business & Industry, Capacity Building, Financial Management

Link: https://sndafrica.org/criteria-based-selection-of-informal-women-cross-border-trader-groups-for-support

Description:

The Strategies for Northern Development (SND), with support from GIZ through the African Union Border Programme (AUBP), is implementing the project “Building the Economic Resilience of Informal Women Cross-Border Traders in Moyale Kenya–Ethiopia Borderlands.”

The project aims to strengthen the economic resilience of informal women cross-border traders through access to seed capital, entrepreneurship and financial literacy training, and sensitization on the newly signed Simplified Trade Regime (STR) between Kenya and Ethiopia.

The initiative builds on a previous phase in which a mapping exercise identified informal women cross-border traders operating along the Moyale–Moyale corridor. A total of 30 women traders, including 15 from Kenya and 15 from Ethiopia, were engaged in capacity-building activities. These activities included training on cross-border trade rules, traders’ rights and obligations, and the potential benefits of business formalization.