<p style="margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Women can be considered as the fastest growing entrepreneurs in the world </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">(Brush &amp; Cooper, 2012;</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> and </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Patil &amp; Deshpande, 2018)</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">. It is now acknowledged that women entrepreneurship is an important indicator for world development. Women entrepreneurs play a significant role in producing jobs, wealth, poverty reduction, human development, education, health and nation’s development especially in developing countries. There are many success stories of women entrepreneurs which have been discussed in the literature and illustrated the main constraints on to their way </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">(Byrne et al., 2019</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">; and </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Neumeyer et al., 2019)</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">. Without women entrepreneurs, economies could not achieve the complete and sustainable success.</span></span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Background works on cross border trade across Africa, which is especially patronized by small scale traders who are mainly women have emphasized the need to enhance trade among the border points.&nbsp; Specifically, the East Africa Community (EAC) u</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">under the East African Trade and Transport Facilitation Project (EATTFP) framework, in conjunction with international development partners and local governments identified several border posts across the region for conversion to One Stop Border Posts (OSBPs) to facilitate trade and transport to enhance regional integration &amp; enhance trade. This was conceptualized in 2006 as a component of the EAC infrastructure development program. </span></span></span></span></p>
