From Abuja, to Abidjan and Afloa, Africa Trade Academy builds capacity of regional actors to enhance trade flows.
Africa Trade Academy just concluded a two-day sensitization workshop for Small Scale CrossBorder Traders (SSCBTs) in Aflao, Ghana’s border town with Togo.
The impactful and highly interactive awareness creation event, commissioned by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Ghana, focused on enhancing the rights and responsibilities of SSCBTs, in understanding trade rules, sexual and gender-based violence as well as financial literacy and managing their businesses.
The SSCBTs, all women are involved in trading smoked fish and salt mostly between Ghana, Togo and Benin.
Dynamic facilitators of Africa Trade Academy facilitators, delivered the sessions in Ewe, the local language of the traders, and enlightened the SSCBTs on existing cross-border trade rules including the ECOWAS ETLS, the rights and obligations of border officials and traders, strategies for dealing with harassment, the importance of crossing the border formally, the role of cross-border trade associations and their benefits to SSCBTs, and how to utilize trade facilitation tools available in ECOWAS trade, such as border information centres and trade information desks.
