EAC CONCLUDES 2ND WOMEN’S INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE,  ADOPTS THE ARUSHA STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT ON WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP INTO THE DIGITAL FUTURE

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.