东非工商农业商会：2025二手服装经济背景下本土棉纺织服装制造业发展促进专项报告（英文版）（62页）.pdf

1、 Promoting Local Cotton,Textile and Apparel Manufacturing in the Context of the Second-Hand Clothing Economy East African Chamber of Commerce,Industry and Agriculture(EACCIA)Supported by:Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research&Analysis(KIPPRA)Special Report July 2025 Special Report,July 2025 This

2、 report has been prepared by a team which was constituted by the East African Chamber of Commerce,Industry&Agriculture(EACCIA)to support the ongoing advocacy work by Mitumba Consortium Association of Kenya(MCAK),the apex organization in Kenya which lobbies for the traders in the secondhand clothes s

3、ubsector of Kenyas economy.However,secondhand clothes sales are not a phenomenon which is only found in Kenya,they are popular in many of our neighboring countries,with Kenya recently recording higher levels of imports of these clothes.When EACCIA started to partner with MCAK,in mid2024,the organiza

4、tion requested that Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis(KIPPRA)be consulted due to the nature of its mandate in ensuring that any final output would be acceptable to the Government of Kenya due to its role as adviser to the government on Public Policy in the Country.KIPPRA is gov

5、ernments“think tank”on many issues of public policy nature where the government needs to make policy initiatives which might impact the public.This special report has therefore been prepared with major input from KIPPRA staff and has been subjected to no less than three stakeholder engagement worksh

6、ops and numerous retreats by key KIPPRA and EACCIA technical staff.In addition,two validation workshops have been held to seek the concurrence of all stakeholders(representatives of secondhand clothes traders,the textile and apparel manufacturers,Kenya National Chamber of Commerce&Industry,Kenya Ass