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The East African Community together with the Arusha City Council and the International Women’s Day Committee conducted a sensitization event at Maweni Primary and Mkonoo Secondary Schools in Terat Ward, Arusha, Tanzania on 24th July 2020. The community service event, which was originally meant to take place as part of the celebration of the International Women’s Day 2020 - themed “#EachforEqual” - in March 2020, could not take place du...

The African continent is experiencing a massive shift towards digital technologies and is radically transforming several sectors of the economies of its 55 countries, thereby directly impacting trade and global supply chains that link the continent. According to a 2018 study commissioned by the World Bank titled Leveraging ICT Technologies in Closing the Gender Gap, digital technologies have an enormous potential of empowering women socially and ...

IIDEA partner EANNASO (Eastern Africa National Networks of AIDS and Health Service Organizations) launched the East Africa Afya Health Digital platform on 29th June, 2020. The launch was attended by almost 130 participants, including the relevant health organisations in the region, civil society organisations and the Media.Afya is an online digital platform mapping health service centers along EAC borders. Residents and travelers can easily v...

The apex bodies of the private sector and civil society organizations met virtually on 29th May 2020 through MS TEAMS. The half-day meeting was attended by representatives of the East African Civil Society Organizations Forum(EACSOF), the East Africa Law Society (EALS), the East African Local Government Association (EALGA) and the East African Health Platform (EAHP) and chaired by Mrs Martha Makenge, Ag. Executive Director of EACSOF. Besides disc...

The serene agricultural town of Babati, located 160 kilometers South West of Tanzania’s Arusha city, is home to a group of young farmers under the name “Shambani Solutions”,who are  producing green beans for export. In early 2018, Shambani Solutions partnered with Kenyan based horticultural exporter Frigoken limited, to directly employ 2,200 young men and women through contractual farming, producing over 30...

IIDEA partner ESAFF Uganda has found a solution and developed the KilimoMart application. (more…)

IIDEA identifies, nurtures and supports small innovative projects on regional integration. We give these organizations the possibility to test the freedom and opportunities provided by the regional integration in the EAC. Our latest figures show the increase in beneficiaries from this process as the new partners have started off and gone into full swing. IIDEA projects do not only cover most sectors that the East African Community works in...

EANNASO (Eastern Africa National Networks of AIDS Service Organizations), with support of the EAC-GIZ programme through IIDEA, is developing a digital platform that provides accurate information on the availability of health services within East African border towns and their environs. Partners working in the region's health sector were brought together in an orientation meeting in Arusha, Tanzania to brainstorm and advance ideas on a prototype o...

The Uganda Tourism Association (UTA) is implementing an IIDEA project promoting the marketability of East African cultural crafts across the world using an online platform. UTA works together with Eco Tourism Kenya and the National Art and Cultural Crafts Association of Uganda (NACCAU). The online marketing platform will provide a central marketplace for East African cultural crafts and promote the sale of colorful East African products to th...

Each year on the 8th of March, the World celebrates International Women’s Day.   This year, on the 6th of March 2020, the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat and its partners joined the rest of the World in taking stock of women’s achievements throughout history and across nations. The Incubator for Integration and Development in East Africa (IIDEA) invited six women project beneficiaries from each of the six EAC partner States...