The East African Community (EAC) is a regional organization mandated by the governments of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda to spearhead the East African economic, social and political integration agenda. The Treaty for the establishment of the East African Community was signed in November 1999 and entered into force in July 2000. The East African Community (EAC) is in the final stages of establishing a Development Fund.
The aim of the Fund is to address among others infrastructural development issues, development imbalances, investment promotion and other development issues in the Partner States for advancement, deepening and acceleration of integration. The establishment of the EAC Development Fund (EACDF) will be one of the several milestones
that the EAC has successfully achieved in its integration process.