About Us
Who We Are
COMPETE is the Competitiveness and Trade Expansion program. It is a regional program intended to increase food security and economic growth in East and Central Africa. The project has three integrated components designed to:
- Reduce barriers to regional and international trade
- Facilitate the efficiency and competitiveness of key value chains.
- Ramp up trade and investment between the United States and East Africa.
COMPETE is funded by the US Agency for International Development under the East Africa region.
What We Do
The USAID COMPETE program takes an integrated approach to advance trade and economic growth and ensure food security in the region. The program builds the capacity of African firms to compete in the global marketplace and takes advantage of preferential trade opportunities under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and other international trade agreements. Central to the USAID COMPETE program is an African private sector-led reform agenda. USAID COMPETE works through regional trade associations and lead firms to build the private sector’s capacity to advocate for an improved policy and trade environment. USAID COMPETE works with regional economic communities such as the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC) to build public sector capacity to advance regional integration through harmonized policies, procedures and standards and technological improvements to support evidence based policy decision making. Regional integration is key to fostering development of regional markets and increasing the competitiveness of African products globally.
Issues We Work On
- Feed the Future
- African Growth and Competitiveness Initiative
- Reducing Barriers to Trade
- Increased Competitiveness and Trade in Selected Value Chains
- Increased Trade and Investment in Global Markets
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