Wizara ya Ushirikiano wa Afrika Mashariki

The Ministry of East African Cooperation was established vide Government Notice No. 1 of January 2006. The Ministry is entrusted with the role of coordinating and overseeing the implementation of EAC projects and programmes with a view to accelerating the socio-economic and political development of Tanzania and the Region at large.

One of the mandates of the Ministry of East African Cooperation (MEAC), is among other things, to oversee and coordinate the implementation of the East African Community (EAC) Treaty and its Protocols. One of the cardinal principles of the EAC Treaty is that the Community is a people centered and private sector driven. In 1999, the EAC Partner States set-out to establish a Customs Union, a Common Market and a Monetary Union and ultimately a politically integrated East Africa.