Issued by SEATNI-Uganda | March 2017
SEATINI-Uganda has developed a Statement entitled The EAC-EU EPA: Tanzania is raising pertinent issues urging EAC Member States to consider issues raised by Tanzania against the signing of the East African Community – European Union Economic Partnership Agreements in view of the forthcoming 18th Summit of the EAC Heads of State.
Industrial policy is rapidly advancing in the African continent. Various African countries have declared intentions to promote industrialization in order to expand their economies, facilitate backward and forward linkages, create employment and continually reduce poverty. African States are pursuing new trade and industrialization policy as a pathway for economic transformation of the continent. Agenda 2063, Africa’s ... Eva-Maria Schreiber, a German Member of Parliament from the Die Linke socialist party has advised Tanzania not to sign the East African Community – European Union Economic Partnership Agreements (EAC –EU EPA). Speaking on 29th April 2019 in Dar es Salaam in an exclusive interview following her one-week visit to the country, Hon. Schreiber regards the EAC-EU EPAS dangerous as they jeopardize the social and economic de ... PRESS RELEASE
From 29th-30th May 2019 SEATINI Uganda in partnership with Diakonia Africa Economic Justice Program, Both ENDS, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung held a high-level stakeholder meeting on the Implications of the evolving trade and investment regime on EAC’s realization of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The purpose of this meeting was to synthesize civil society positions on three key issues per ... Allan Kalangi and Julius Kyamanwya | May 2018
Uganda is one of the new oil-rich states in the world having discovered huge commercial deposits of oil in its western Albertine graben. Against a huge power asymmetry, communities organise and speak up in an attempt to transform power relations and reclaiming justice in their struggle against the negative consequences of hosting large land based investments in their ... Issued by SEATINI-Uganda | July 2017
The Trade working group comprising of members form Civil Society and Manufacturers, develop statement fully supporting the decision taken by the Heads of State to progressively phase out second hand clothes in East Africa. Read more ... ... Deliberations on Natural Resource Politics in Africa | Edited by RLS (Ibrahima Thiam and Andreas Bohne) | April 2017
African countries are characterised by an abundant supply of resources including (agricultural) land, recently discovered oil and gas reserves or deposits of gold, platinum and others. However, what seems to be a blessing for the some can turn out to be a curse for others. This online publication co ... Controlling the South: the case of East Africa | Written by Yash Tandon | Published by RLS Brussels Office | February 2017
This paper falls within the overall theme of mega-regional trade and investment agreements that have proliferated in recent years. It addresses the question of whether they are improving or worsening the condition of countries in the Global South.
TRADE POLICY: EXPLORING THE LANDSCAPE AND REQUIREMENTS FOR PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT IN EAST AFRICA
GERMAN MP ADVISES TANZANIA NOT TO SIGN THE TRADE AGREEMENT
EAC CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS (CSOS) CALL FOR MORE PEOPLE CENTERED TRADE AND INVESTMENT REGIMES
Preying on the Albertine: A spotlight over Total E&P operations in Uganda’s oil region
CSO Statement: On the decision to phase out second hand clothes
Publication: Fields of Gold?
Fact booklet: Unpacking Trade & Investment
STATEMENT: THE EAC- EU EPA: TANZANIA IS RAISING PERTINENT ISSUES
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