The East African Employers Organisation (EAEO) is a special fraternity of employers that was established in 2010 and legally registered in 2011 with the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania. In a meeting held in Kampala, Uganda, from 23rd to 24th February 2010, the Chairpersons and Executive Directors of Employers Organizations of Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar, took cogniz
ance of the existing gap and inadequacy in the representation of employers views from member states of the EAC. The meeting participants unanimously agreed that in order to be able to adequately articulate employers’ issues in the East African Community there was need of establishing a regional Employers’ Organization thus fulfilling the spirit of tripartism, enshrined in several conventions of the International Labour Organization, which member states have ratified. The core mandate of EAEO is to promote the interests of employers at the regional level. Over the past few years of its existence EAEO has changed from being a platform within the East African Business Council (EABC) into a fully fledged organisation with two full time coordinators based in Arusha supported by two technical advisors based at the Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) and the Federation of Uganda Employers (FUE).
