SEATINI UGANDA

The Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) Uganda is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) registered in Uganda in 2001 to work on issues of trade, tax and related fiscal processes at local, national, regional and global levels for the realisation of sustainable development and improved livelihoods in Uganda, East Africa and the African Region. SEATINI-Uganda is part of SEATINI, a sub-regional NGO working in Eastern and Southern Africa with offices in Harare Zimbabwe and Nairobi Kenya. SEATINI-Uganda is the regional coordinating office for East Africa. Although the offices operate independently, they subscribe to the overall SEATINI vision, mission, values and broad objectives. SEATINI was founded in 1996 soon after the WTO Singapore Ministerial Conference, after realizing that Africa in particular and Third World countries in general were marginalized in the WTO negotiations and other global processes. Governments capacity to negotiate...