In 2026, Nextrade is supporting the East African Community Secretariat and Partner States East African Community to develop a harmonized regional legal framework and instrument on data protection and privacy and a Mechanism for Cross-border Data Flows as a reference for EAC Partner States’ legal framework on personal data transfers.

In 2026, Nextrade is supporting an EU-funded program with Caribbean Export, designing and implementing  a comprehensive e-commerce capacity-building and onboarding initiative targeting 240 MSMEs across 15 Caribbean countries . The program combined structured training, hands-on onboarding support on global platforms such as Shopify and eBay, individualized mentoring for high-potential firms, and institutional capacity building for Business Support Organizations. As a result,

Nextrade is in 2026 working with partner firm OCO Global on an Inter-American Development Bank-funded project for the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) across six Caribbean and Central American countries to prepare e-commerce readiness handbooks and train 54 MSMEs across three sectors and six countries to use marketplaces. The approach begins with rigorous, data-driven firm selection and readiness assessment, using diagnostics to identify SMEs with sufficient product read