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COVID-19 is a humanitarian crisis on a global scale. The virus continues to spread throughout the world, placing health systems and ports under unprecedented stress in the battle to save lives and ensure cargo movement is not interrupted respectively. The human scale of this tragedy is set to worsen as the virus is starting to spread to lower income countries with weaker healthcare systems. Kenya is among nations that may get more impact from the

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted how the workplace functions by digitizing the interaction between organizations and their stakeholders, both internal and external. With employees largely working remotely, in order to curtail the transmission of the virus, institutions that had not established systems to operate remotely have been forced to build them speedily. Amidst this workplace turmoil, Human Resource (HR) practitioners need to critically evaluate their business’ agility and offer insights on how the changeover can

Gender mainstreaming has been embraced internationally as a strategy for realising gender equality. It involves the integration of a gender perspective into the preparation, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies, regulatory measures, and spending programs, with a view to promoting equality between women and men, and combating discrimination. Gender mainstreaming requires both integrating a gender perspective to the content of the different policies, and addressing the issue of representation of women and men in

By Ruth Nduta The world is today grappling with challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, which have shaken all sectors of the economies as we have known them. An emerging modus operandusis slowly taking shape and defining the entire supply chain in what has famously received a moniker ‘New Normal’. Faced by the twin challenge of keeping global economies afloat while containing the spread of a pandemic that the world knew very little about when it

By Evelyne Wamae Single Window Systems are platforms that allow for the submission of information required to fulfill regulatory requirements between importers and exporters and the government authorities. This information is submitted only once through a single entry point. The East Africa Community (EAC) regional electronic Single Window (e-SW) is a platform or environment where national e-SWs of member countries shall operate to facilitate cross-border and international trade. According to the World Trade Organization, a