The EAC is currently taking steps to address the legal and institutional constraints and other non-tariff barriers to trade and is implementing the East African Trade and Transport Facilitation Project (EATTFP), whose main objectives are to support the regional activities which include establishment of the EAC Customs Union, promoting transport facilitation and the strengthening of the Corridor Management Institutions, all aimed at simplifying most of the formalities at the border posts and hence reduce transit times and cost of transport.

This project will improve the transport infrastructure between the two countries by enhancing the connectivity of the Northern Corridor, of which these roads form a part of. It will ease the snarl ups at the border posts of Busia and Malaba and improve the road safety, for the road users as well as for the population living in the vicinity of the infrastructure.