Our initiative was dedicated to enhancing the capabilities of private businesses, trade facilitation agencies, and business support associations along the IGAD trade corridors. Our mission was clear: to drive cross-border trade, bolster SME competitiveness, and foster economic growth. Through targeted technical, institutional, and managerial capacity development programs, we elevated trade flows for both exports and imports, identifying crucial gaps to fortify trade policy-making capacities for Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and policymakers at national and local levels.