The Great Lakes Parliamentary Forum on Peace, better known as the AMANI Forum, is an Africa-focused organization based in Nairobi, Kenya that works to promote peace and democracy, and to mitigate conflict in the
African Great Lakes
The African Great Lakes (; ) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift. The series includes Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world by area; Lake Tangan ...
region. AMANI Forum was formed in 1998 by regional parliamentarians to create a structure to enable coordinated work towards sustainable peace. Since then AMANI has grown to a membership of over 650 parliamentarians, with national chapters in Burundi,
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...
(DRC), Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania,
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...
and
Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...
. In 2007 a chapter was established in the East African Legislative Assembly.
[Mitchell O'Brien, Rick Stapenhurst, Niall Johnston. ''Parliaments as Peacebuilders in Conflict-Affected Countries''. World Bank Publications, 2008, p. 204-206]
''Amani'' is the Swahili word for peace.
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Structure and Functioning
AMANI Forum has a General Assembly, a Regional Executive Committee (REC), a Regional Secretariat based in Nairobi, and eight National Chapters. The General Assembly sets overall policy and direction at their annual general meeting. The REC meets throughout the year to provide more specific supervision of AMANI activities, while the Regional Secretariat is responsible for planning, implementation, and evaluation of programmes.
AMANI Forum currently has eight National Chapters:
* AMANI Burundi
* AMANI DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
* AMANI Kenya
* AMANI Rwanda
* AMANI Tanzania
* AMANI Uganda
* AMANI Zambia
* AMANI EALA (
East African Legislative Assembly
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) is a sub-organ of the larger East African Community, being the legislative arm of the Community. Members are sworn into five-year terms.
History
Since colonial times, a number of organizations have ...
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See also
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Human rights in Africa
Contributing to the establishment of human rights system in Africa are the United Nations, international law and the African Union which have positively influenced the betterment the human rights situation in the continent. However, extensive h ...
References
External links
AMANI Forumofficial website)
AMANI Forum(archived versions of official website via Human Rights Web Archive)
Human rights organisations based in Kenya
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