Burundi Shop is an ecommerce company assisting sellers and buyers in digital shopping and selling of goods from/to East African Community.
The founding idea of Burundi Shop is to offer to both sellers and buyers complete, reliable and easy-to-use ecommerce solutions. This in order to facilitate supplying goods to landlocked areas and to help small traders and local producers, long ignored by conventional trade systems, to become key players in cross-border trade.
Created in 2011 and the in a spirit of complementarity, Burundi Shop brings together among its founders companies and individuals who have already proven their skills in various sectors including ICT, trade, finance, transport, logistics and tourism.
Thanks to this multi-skilled design team and the mastery of the local and regional business environment, Burundi Shop has already demonstreted its ability to develop e-commerce concept that meet the needs of unconnected area, which has earned privilege of being ranked among eTrade for All partners.
Matendo Fernand
CEO & Co-founder
Nizigiyimana Salvator
Chairman & Co-founder
Amb. Gasunzu Pascal
Chairman & Board Member
Prosper Bizimungu
Chairman & Board Member
Valère Nsengiyumva
Chairman & Board Member
BURUNDI SHOP has already served with satisfaction various local institutions among which the National Central Bank of the Republic of Burundi (BRB), the National Posta Office (RNP), the Ministry of Local Development, the Burundian Association of Local Elected Officials (ABELO), etc.
With funding from the ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA, Netherlands), in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, the University of Burundi, Burundi Shop provided web 2.0. training to about 100 representatives from various sectors including Government officials, academia, media, private-sector and civil-society.
Burundi Shop, in collaboration with the Ministry of ICT, Ministry of Trade, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Burundi, the Agency for Regulation and Control of Telecommunications (ARCT), organized several workshops & meetings related to logistics supply chain, payment systems and regulation in Burundi.
Burundi Shop has designed and obtained a patent for its Payment Gateway capable to process payment of online orders using existing (offline) payment methods (Isokopay).
Burundi Shop contributed to the creation of "eTrade for All", an initiative launched by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in July Nairobi. It is regulary involved as speaker/co-organizer of thematic sessions in all the annual editions of E-commerce Week in Europe and Africa.
Burundi Shop is a founding member of Business for eTrade Development, the Private Sector Advisory Council of UNCTAD's eTrade for All Initiative. (See p12, of this report of WTO)
Burundi Shop is a founding member of Ecommerce Forum Africa, the Pana-African Ecommerce Organization. It is regulary involved as speaker/co-organizer of thematic sessions related to the development of Ecommerce in Africa.
Burundi Shop is the initiator of East African Digital Common Marketplace" launched in December 2018 in Nairobi, in the sidelines of the African E-Commerce Week with the technical support of UNCTAD and its partners.