Strengthening four East African parties through regional and international networking and inclusive green policy-development and implementation
As the African continent is being affected more and more by climate change the topic is moving up on the political agenda. The Alternative partners with movements and organisations in East Africa that work together on the green agenda.
Africa is expected to be the region most impacted by climate change, despite accounting for less than 4% of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. Despite the demand for environmental action the green agenda is underprioritized in the political system. However, as the climate change movement has spread across the globe, green parties have also appeared in Africa, demanding sustainable solutions.
Danish partner: The Alternative
Local partners: Eastern African Green Federation (EAGF) - Ecological Party of Uganda (EPU) - Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (DGPR) - Burundi Green Movement (BGM) - Green Congress of Kenya (GCK)
Project: 2019 - 2020
The Danish political party, The Alternative, is engaged in a partnership with the network Eastern African Greens Federation (EAGF) to strengthen four national green parties in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi and ensure that the green agenda.
EAGF is a federation of parties, who succeeded to unite, with a mission to bring about necessary political and socio-economic changes in the countries in the areas of democracy, rule of law, constitutional governance, fair distribution of national resources, the protection of environment, and generally striving for national sustainable political and social economic development.
The aim of the collaboration is to be a network that strengthen the individual parties within the network through exchange of experiences and learning, so that they can develop into a political actors and green voice in East Africa.
The concrete strategy is that joint regional training, with contributions from the Alternative, will develop a basic capacity among the national party leaders, who will bring it into practice at the national level. Communication strategies, overall strategic plans for the parties, and plans for inclusive policy development processes, as well as strategies for the creation of broad electoral reform-alliances will all be implemented in the four countries.
The partnership has in the first year resulted in EAGF formally registering and several internal and external activities have been held, including press conferences, plans for future practice on inclusive policy making and joint advocacy activities for green policies. Moreover, activities on electoral reforms in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda have been held with 150 participants, including government officials, party leaders, CSO’s, representatives from relevant institutions etc. The activities have so far been broadcasted in 6 news show clips and 1 news article in local media.
