Arusha, Tanzania — June 26, 2026 — The East African Community (EAC) today brought the historic 2nd Women's Intergenerational Dialogue to a successful conclusion at the EAC Headquarters in Arusha, adopting the landmark Arusha Statement of Commitment on Women's Leadership into the Future alongside a comprehensive 2026 to 2028 EAC Women's Leadership Roadmap. Over two days of intensive deliberation, EALA women parliamentarians, civil society leaders, technology experts, youth representatives, and policymakers from across the region converged to declare the digital frontier the next decisive arena for women's leadership in the
Community.
The EALA Women's Caucus convened the Dialogue in partnership with the EAC Secretariat, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Tengeru Institute for Community Development, the National Women's Research and Documentation Centre, World Speech Day Women, Women LEAD South Africa, and the EAC apex bodies. Building on the foundational work of the inaugural Dialogue held in July 2024, whose thirty-two commitments and ten general recommendations laid the groundwork for regional action, this second convening confronted the accelerating pace of technological change with a singular resolve: that women must be architects, not merely beneficiaries, of East Africa's digital transformation.
