On January 15 and 22, 2021, Banyan Global participated in the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) internal “Trade in the Time of COVID-19” podcast to discuss a recent report developed under the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Equality Technical Assistance activity titled, Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality in Trade Facilitation: The Role of Customs and Border Services.

In the first of this two-part series, Banyan Global discussed how border services can promote women’s economic empowerment and shared recommendations that USAID missions can apply to their border and trade facilitation work. In the second part, Banyan Global highlighted how customs and border services can become stronger agents of change and shared how to overcome challenges in implementing the team’s recommendations.