About ESAMI Uganda Business School TRAPCA

The Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (trapca) was established in 2006 as a joint initiative of the Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute (ESAMI) and Lund University of Sweden, with funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). The Centre is hosted at the ESAMI headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.

The mandate of trapca is to build and enhance capacity in trade policy matters in least-developed and other developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In furtherance of this mandate, trapca facilitates networking and the sharing of information among the target countries. The core functions of the centre include the following:

To provide academic and competence-based training in trade policy;
To generate new knowledge by serving as a catalyst for institutional change and research;
To provide a forum for the exchange of knowledge, information and experiences; and
To provide support in such areas as trade development, trade promotion and institutional capacity.

Since February 2015, trapca also offers capacity building in trade facilitation in all levels of training.