Federation of Green Parties of Africa
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The Federation of Green Parties of Africa is an umbrella body of the various national Green parties and environmental parties in Africa. The formal coalition, the African Greens Federation (AGF) formed in 2010 at a conference in Kampala, Uganda.[1] As part of the Global Greens, founded in 2001 in Canberra, Australia, the parties included in the Federation of Green Parties of Africa follow the Global Greens Charter.[2] The organization's permanent administration is in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, where the predominant green organization is the Rassemblement Des Ecologistes du Burkina Faso.[3] These parties tend to, but not always, be left-leaning and often do not have widespread support in their respective countries.
Principles of the Global Green Charter include:[4]
- Participatory Democracy
- Nonviolence
- Social justice
- Sustainability
- Respect for Diversity
- Ecological Wisdom
Current leadership includes the President, Dr. Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda,[5] Papa Meissa Dieng of the Convergence of Ecologists of Senegal (CES) as the Secretary General,[6] and Robinah K. Nanyunja as treasurer. Nanyunja is an environmentalist from Uganda.[7]
Goals of the coalition include helping such parties gain more political power, such as joining the parliamentary or legislative bodies. Such was a success for the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, which gained a sufficient percent of the vote in 2018, allowing them to gain representation in the Rwandan parliament.[8]
In addition to political parties, the ENGOs, or environmental non-governmental organizations, have played an important role on the continent after colonization in order to push for development and basic needs delivery.[9]
Member parties
[edit]Full Member Parties and Organizations[10]
- Algeria: Parti Vert d'Algérie pour le Développement / Algerian Green Party
- Burkina Faso: Rassemblement Des Ecologistes du Burkina Faso
- Burundi: Burundi Green Movement
- Chad: Union des Ecologistes Tchadiens - LES VERTS
- Democratic Republic of Congo: Alliance des Ecologists Congolais - Les Verts (AECO - Les Verts)
- Republic of Congo: Mouvement des Ecologistes Congolais-Les Verts
- Egypt: Egyptian Green Party
- Ivory Coast: Rassemblement des Verts Ivoiriens (RAVI)
- Kenya: Green Congress of Kenya
- Madagascar: Parti Vert Hasin'I Madagasikara
- Mali: Parti Ecologiste du Mali
- Mauritius: Les Verts Fraternels Mauritius
- Morocco: Parti de la Gauche Verts du Maroc
- Mozambique: Ecological Party of Mozambique - Movement of Earth / Partido Ecologista de Moçambique
- Niger: Rassemblement pour un Sahel Vert/Parti Vert du Niger
- Rwanda: Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
- Senegal: Convergence des Ecologistes du Sénégal (CES)
- Togo: Afrique Togo Ecologie
- Tunisia: Parti Tunisie Verte pour le Progrès
- Uganda: Ecological party of Uganda
- Zambia: Green Party of Zambia
- Zimbabwe: Green Party of Zimbabwe / United Crusade for Democracy (UCAD)
Other African non-members and observers
[edit]- Algeria:
- Angola:
- Burkina Faso:
- Cameroon:
- Central African Republic:
- Republic of the Congo:
- Democratic Republic of the Congo:
- Côte d'Ivoire:
- Gabon:
- Mauritius:
- Madagascar:
- Rassemblement des Verts de Madagascar/Madagasikara Tany Maitso
- Union nationale pour la démocratie et le développement
- Morocco:
- Izigzawen
- Écologie et développement
- Parti de l'environnement et du développement
- Mozambique
- Niger:
- Rassemblement des Verts-Ni'ima
- Nigeria
- Rwanda:
- Senegal:
- Parti africain écologiste du Sénégal
- Sudan:
- South Africa
- Togo:
- Tunisia
- Parti des verts pour le progrès
- Tunisie verte
- Uganda
- Zambia
Sister bodies
[edit]Sister continental Green Party organizations include the Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas, Asia-Pacific Green Network and European Federation of Green Parties.
See also
[edit]- Biodiversity
- Conservation movement
- Conservation ethic
- Environmental movement
- Ecology
- Ecosystem
- Earth Science
- Global Greens
- Global warming
- List of environmental organizations
- Natural environment
- Nature
- Sustainability
- Worldwide green parties
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Welcome to African Greens Official Website". African Green Federation. 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ "Global Greens Charter". Global Greens. 2007-12-15. Archived from the original on 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ "Welcome to African Greens Official Website". African Green Federation. 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ "Global Greens Charter". Global Greens. 2007-12-15. Archived from the original on 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ "Frank Habineza". Global Greens. 2016-01-25. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ "Papa Meissa DIENG". Global Greens. 2018-06-02. Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ "About Me". Archived from the original on 2019-06-11. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ "Democratic Green Party entry into Rwandan Parliament". African Green Federation. 2018-09-05. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ van der Heijden, Hein-Anton (April 2002). "Political Parties and ngos in Global Environmental Politics". International Political Science Review. 23 (2): 187–201. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.589.1098. doi:10.1177/0192512102023002005. ISSN 0192-5121. S2CID 220874620.
- ^ "Green Federations". Global Greens. 2011-06-09. Archived from the original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
External links
[edit]- Green Party Federations Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine