About this Blog
Supporting Indian Trade and Investment for Africa (SITA) is a south-south trade and investment project, between India and five East African Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. SITA is an International Trade Centre (ITC) project, which is funded by the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
SITA draws on India's repository of innovative solutions and the untapped potential for mutually beneficial trade and investment to promote Sustainable Development in East Africa. SITA responds to the specific challenges that these five East African countries face in increasing and diversifying their trade and market linkages across identified priority sectors.
This blog provides a window into the SITA project, and how it translates ideas into sustainable change. Through stories from all five East African countries, and India too, Voices of SITA provides highlights from the project’s progress and showcases the impact that SITA is having.
Take a look at the recent stories below. The posts can be filtered by sector or focus country using the menu bar above.June 14, 2021
Zero Liquid Discharge or ZLD technologies are key to achieving an environmentally sustainable textile dyeing sector. This article explores the path to achieving ZLD, its economic and ecological merits, and the additional support required from governments in driving the change .
June 1, 2021
Partnerships are key to driving the uptake of renewables for industrial use. In Tamil Nadu, India, the textile industry, state and central governments joined hands to […]
February 19, 2021
SITA is supporting farmers in Rwanda and Kenya to diversify into high-value horticultural crops with a growing demand. Diversifying into herbs like rosemary, which grow well […]
January 29, 2021
Over the course of four weeks in October and November 2020, SITA organized a series of trainings on ITC’s Market Analysis Tools for business support organizations […]
October 27, 2020
South-South Cooperation has huge potential for successfully achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a vital role to play in Covid-19 recovery. The International Trade Centre (ITC) […]
October 1, 2020
Seed synergy: SITA facilitates Indian-Ugandan knowledge transfer, ahead of cotton germplasm exchange
SITA is facilitating a cotton seed exchange between India and Uganda to combine the strengths of the two countries’ different seed varieties. The germplasm exchange will […]
September 8, 2020
Last August, SITA facilitated a four-week training program on Leather Processing Technologies for Leather Manufacturers, which was delivered by the Central Leather Research Institute (CRLI) of […]
September 8, 2020
SITA organized its first virtual sourcing event in July 2020 in partnership with Asia Pacific Leather Fair (APLF), Hong Kong. Five tanneries from Kenya and Uganda […]
September 5, 2020
SITA has been working with the Government of Rwanda and Indian partners to develop Rwanda’s spices sector, focusing on hyprid chili in particular as high value […]
July 29, 2020
SITA organized a webinar on The Future of the Textile and Apparel Sector – an Indo-African Perspective in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry […]
July 16, 2020
Sustainability is essential for East African businesses to be competitive. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the Fashion and Leather Sectors, which have faced serious […]
May 8, 2020
Amid lockdown restrictions, 23 volunteers in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, are working daily to fulfil the regional government’s order for face masks and other personal protective equipment. […]
May 4, 2020
As a result of business linkages facilitated by SITA, a Rwandan women-owned textiles company imported two containers of fabric from India in April 2020. In December […]
March 30, 2020
In March 2020, a Tanzanian agri-business made its first exports of cardamom to India through business linkages established at the 2019 International Spice Conference (ISC 2019) […]
November 13, 2019
By Candice Ungerer 32 local designers are participating in SITA’s Mitreeki fashion incubator programmes Kenya and Ethiopia which focus on developing their technical and business skills […]
November 13, 2019
SITA facilitated the participation of nine tanneries from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda in the International Shoes and Leather Exhibition, which took place in Ho Chi Minh […]
November 13, 2019
On 13 May 2019, KPR Export – a garment unit in Mekelle Industrial Park established by India’s KPR Mill Ltd – was officially inaugurated The investment […]
July 22, 2019
In April 2019, the results of a SITA commissioned study on the chemical composition of East African virgin sunflower oil were published in the International Journal […]
June 21, 2019
By Vandana Prakash Nair SITA organized for a delegation of six East African tanneries to attend the Asia Pacific Leather Fair (APLF) held in Hong Kong […]
June 19, 2019
By Devika Jyothi For the third year in a row, SITA facilitated the participation of a 16-member delegation from the East African spices sector at the […]