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<p><img src="/images/icons/customs.png" alt="" /> Consolidation of the Single Customs Territory (SCT).</p>
<p><img src="/images/icons/infrastructure.png" alt="" /> Infrastructure development in the region.</p>
<p><img src="/images/icons/trade.png" alt="" width="35" height="35" /> Enhancing free movement of all factors of production across the Partner States.</p>
<p><img src="/images/icons/industrialization.png" alt="" /> Enhancement of regional industrial development.</p>
<p><img src="/images/icons/agriculture.png" alt="" /> Improvement of agricultural productivity and value addition.</p>
<p><img src="/images/icons/peace.png" alt="" /> Promotion of regional peace, security and good governance.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Monetary Union</strong></h3>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Political <br />Federation<br /></strong></h3>
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<p>The East African Community (EAC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation of six (6) Partner States, comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.</p>
<p>The EAC is structured into <a href="http://www.eac.int/about/organs">seven main Organs</a>:</p>
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<li><a href="/eac-organs">The Co-ordinating Committee</a></li>
<li><a href="/eac-organs">Sectoral Committees</a></li>
<li><a href="/eac-organs">The East African Court of Justice</a></li>
<li><a href="/eac-organs">The East African Legislative Assembly</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eac.int/about/the-secretariat">The Secretariat</a></li>
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<p>The Community also has <a href="/eac-institutions">nine institutions</a>, three of which became operational in July 2015.</p>
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<div class="uk-panel-teaser"><a href="http://tradehelpdesk.eac.int/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="EAC Trade Information Portal"><img src="/images/Adverts/Trade_Help_desk.png" alt="EAC Trade Information Portal" width="250" height="200" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">The EAC <a href="http://tradehelpdesk.eac.int/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="EAC Trade Information Portal"><strong>Trade Information Portal</strong></a> (TIP) gives access to step-by-step guides on licenses, pre-clearance permits and clearance formalities for the most traded goods within, to and from the East African Community EAC).</div>
<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://tradehelpdesk.eac.int/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="EAC Trade Information Portal"><strong>Visit Portal </strong></a></div>
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<div class="uk-panel-teaser"><a href="https://www.eahealth.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="The EAC Health Portal"><img src="/images/images/EAC_Health_Portal_1.png" alt="EAC Health Portal 1" width="250" height="200" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></a><br />
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<div class="uk-panel uk-panel-header" style="text-align: left;">The <a href="https://www.eahealth.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="The EAC Health Portal"><strong>EAC Health Portal</strong></a> is the official comprehensive compendium of health information in East Africa. A dynamic, structured, and interactive single-point-of-access of health information in the region.</div>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><a href="https://www.eahealth.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="The EAC Health Portal">Visit Portal</a><br /><br /></strong></p>
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<div><a href="http://www.womenconnect.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="50 Million African Women Speak Networking Platform"><img src="/images/images/50MAWS1.png" alt="50MAWS1" width="250" height="175" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></a><br />50 Million African Women Speak is a <a href="http://www.womenconnect.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="50 Million African Women Speak Networking Platform"><strong>digital platform</strong></a> which is available via web and as a mobile App. The platform is designed as a one-stop shop for the information needs of African women in business.</div>
<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.womenconnect.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="50 Million African Women Speak Networking Platform"><strong>Visit Platform</strong></a></p>
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<div class="uk-panel-teaser"><a href="http://eac.opendataforafrica.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="EAC Open Data Portal"><img src="/images/images/EACOPD2.png" alt="EAC Open Data Portal" width="294" height="172" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">With the <a href="http://eac.opendataforafrica.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="EAC Open Data Portal"><strong>Data Portal</strong></a>, you can visualize Socio-Economic indicators over a period of time, gain access to presentation-ready graphics and perform comprehensive analysis on a Country and Regional level.<br /><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://eac.opendataforafrica.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="EAC Open Data Portal"><strong>Visit Portal</strong></a></div>
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<div class="uk-panel-teaser"><a href="https://eacpass.eac.int/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="The EACPass"><img src="/images/images/EACPass.png" alt="EACPass" width="315" height="179" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></a><br />
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<div class="uk-panel uk-panel-header" style="text-align: left;">The <a href="https://eacpass.eac.int/" title="EACPass"><strong>EACPass</strong></a> facilitates safe travel in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, by integrating all EAC Partner State’s Negative Covid-19 test results, as well as Vaccination Certificates.<br /><br /></div>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><a href="https://eacpass.eac.int/">Visit Website</a><br /></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><a href="/investment/eac-buyer-seller-platform" title="EAC Buyer-Seller Platform">Visit Platform</a></strong></p>
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<div class="uk-margin">Enhanced Agricultural productivity for food security and transformed rural economy</div>
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<div class="uk-margin-top"><em>Railway lines across Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika open up the region for colonial development under the management of the East African Railways Cooperation.
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<div class="uk-margin-top"><em>Customs for goods destined for Uganda are collected at Mombasa port, and a full Customs Union comprising Kenya, Uganda and, later, Tanganyika is established in 1917.</em></div>
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<div class="uk-margin-top"><em>The East African Currency Board, the Postal Union, the Court of Appeal
for Eastern Africa, the East African Governors’ Conference, the East African Income Tax Board and the Joint Economic Council are established.</em></div>
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<div class="uk-margin uk-text-center"><img src="/images/Timeline/EAAdc901.jpg" class="uk-border-rounded uk-overlay-scale" alt="1946"></div>
<div class="uk-margin-top">The East African Airways Corporation is incorporated.
It covered not only the East African region, but operated
across Africa, connecting also to Europe and India.</div>
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<div class="uk-margin-top">The East African High Commission (EACH) is the coordinating body to deal with a customs union, a common external tariff, currency and post- age; and also with common services in transport and communications, research and education.</div>
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<div class="uk-margin-top">Following independence, the East African High Commission is replaced by the East African Common Services Organisation (EACSO), which many observers thought would lead to a political federation between the three territories. However, the new organisation suffered from a lack of joint planning and fiscal policy, separate political policies and Kenya’s dominant economic position.</div>
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<div class="uk-margin-top"><em>Signing of the ‘Treaty for East African Cooperation’ among Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.</em></div>
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<div class="uk-margin-top">Dissolution of the first East African Community.</div>
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<div class="uk-margin-top">The Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community was signed by the three Presidents of the Republic of Kenya, Republic of Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania on 30th November, 1999. 30th November is recognized as EAC Day across the region.</div>
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<div class="uk-margin uk-text-center"><img src="/images/Timeline/CUP-Signing.png" class="uk-border-rounded uk-overlay-scale" alt="2005"></div>
<div class="uk-margin-top">The Protocol for the establishment of the <strong>EAC Customs Union</strong> was signed on 1st July, 2005.</div>
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<div class="uk-margin uk-text-center"><img src="/images/Timeline/Screen-Shot-2017-08-29-at-16.26.15.png" class="uk-border-rounded uk-overlay-scale" alt="2007"></div>
<div class="uk-margin-top">The Republic of Rwanda and the Republic of Burundi were admitted and became full members of EAC on 1st July, 2007.</div>
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<div class="uk-margin uk-text-center"><img src="/images/Timeline/CMP-signing.png" class="uk-border-rounded uk-overlay-scale" alt="2010"></div>
<div class="uk-margin-top">The <strong>EAC Common Market</strong> Protocol entered into force on 1st July, 2010, an expansion of the bloc’s existing Customs Union. </div>
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<div class="uk-margin uk-text-center"><img src="/images/Timeline/EAMU-Signing.png" class="uk-border-rounded uk-overlay-scale" alt="2013"></div>
<div class="uk-margin-top">The <strong>East African Monetary Union</strong> (EAMU) is the third milestone of the EAC integration process. The EAMU Protocol was signed on 30th November, 2013 and set the groundwork for a monetary union within 10 years while allowing the EAC Partner States to progressively converge their currencies into a <strong>single currency</strong><em></em> in the Community.</div>
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<div class="uk-margin-top">The Republic of South Sudan was admitted and became a full member of EAC on 5th September, 2016.</div>
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<div class="uk-margin-top">On 20th May, 2017, the EAC Heads of State adopted the <strong>Political Confederation</strong> as a transitional model of the East African Political Federation.</div>
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