The equipment were recovered from two suspected thieves identified as Patrick Bizimana, 24, and Fabrice Ndayishimiye, 24, who were arrested separately in Kabeza Village, Kagasa Cell of Gahanga Sector, Police said.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Marie-Gorette Umutesi, the Police spokesperson for the City of Kigali said one of the suspects—Bizimana—was reported by a taxi-moto operator.
“The hired motorcyclist became suspicious and decided to take Bizimana to the Police. The motorcyclist was not convinced with Bizimana’s explanation on where he got all the equipment and decided to implement his community policing rights,” said CIP Umutesi.
“Ndayishimiye was also arrested following information provided by fellow employees of the company,” she added.
She commended the “vigilance, brave and responsive acts of the motorcyclist” and called upon the general public to “always report anyone or anything suspicious.”
“Whenever you see anything suspicious or suspect someone to be engaged in lawlessness, always call the Police.”
Theft, under article 166 of the law determining offenses and penalties in general in Rwanda, attracts imprisonment of between one and two years and a fine of up to Rwf2 million, community service in a period of six months or only one of these penalties.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Marie-Gorette Umutesi, the Police spokesperson for the City of Kigali said that the two suspects were arrested in Kinyinya Sector, Kagugu Cell, Kabuhunde Village with 6,233 pellets of cannabis.
CIP Umutesi identified the suspects as Chadia Uwamahoro and Damascene Nduhirabandi.
“Uwamahoro is the suspected supplier and Nduhirabandi is one of her retailers. Reacting on credible information, ANU first arrested Nduhirabandi with 300 pellets of cannabis, which he was selling to some consumers; Nduhirabandi was cooperative, he led Police officers to the house of his supplier—Uwamahoro—where other 5,933 rolls of cannabis were recovered and the suspect arrested,” CIP Umutesi explained.
“At the time of her arrest, Uwamahoro had just sold other narcotics worth Rwf300, 000 which she was found with. It is said that Uwamahoro is supplied by another identified big dealer, who is yet to be arrested,” she added.
“Rwanda National Police and ANU in particular, has strengthened operations against drug traffickers or major suppliers with focus on transit routes and destination including Kigali, and the general public is playing a central role in identifying and reporting these dealers,” the spokesperson said.
Anyone convicted for dealing severe drugs, in which category cannabis falls, under article 263 of the law determining offences and penalties in general in Rwanda, faces between 20 years and life in prison and a fine of up to Rwf30 million.
The mission of the NGO is getting together to preserve the memory of the genocide against Tutsi and restore families to overcome post-genocide consequences in order to have a world free of Genocide.
Members of the organization are grouped into families, with a father, a mother, and children as a mechanism of covering the gap of parents by enabling orphans to raise their peers.
They started as wanderers on the outskirts of the Rwandan society, traumatized and depressed by the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi that claimed their families.
Most of them orphaned by the Genocide, they had sustained
physical and mental cuts.
Today, the same survivors have become responsible parents and citizens despite the sorrow that they have had no chance of a parent or an elder to tell them what is wrong or right.
“When our pioneers were starting GAERG in 2003, they knew it was our responsibility to repair social and economic fabrics that had been destroyed by the Genocide” Egide Gatari the president at GAERG said.
Gatari said that the organisation rose to the vision of the country that genocide survivors can play a more effective role in the sustainable development the government had set.
“But how do we do that? By preserving the memory of the genocide, enhancing the concept of family because genocide had deprived us of the family which is the most important social fabric of society”
He explained that when those were addressed, survivors were set for undergoing the economic transformation as the rest of the Rwandans.
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The idea of families that had started with student survivor (AERG) in 1996 was important even for those who had started a new life after graduating from universities.
“I think without these families, we would become impossible people, failures in managing our lives and a burden to Rwandan society,” said Alphonse Nkuranga who later became the Executive Secretary of the body in 2007.
In 2003 graduates started an organization that would be made of parents and relatives as it was in AERG and called it GAERG.
“We could not live without families. The government was academic wise supporting us but somewhere somehow we needed a social mechanism to meet our concerns,” Nkuranga said.
Nkuranga explained that as a family of university graduates, they embarked on sharing information about where to apply for a job.
“Our vision was to be intact all the time. But back then we had no capacity to always report to the office for a meeting or sharing opportunities, and the only communication tool was yahoo group mail,” he said.
For Nkuranga, the family that started as an artificial thing has now gained natural bonds as felt amongst family members.
“I feel something wrong when people say our families are artificial because I found sincerity family members whether in marriage ceremonies or in sorrow moments of losing someone,” he said.
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The executive secretary at the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) Dr. Damascene Bizimana told this paper that GAERG has been very instrumental in backing the commission’s mission of fighting Genocide.
“To us as CNLG, having survivor young men and women who are working hard on their lives, is a great achievement of fighting Genocide because they are standing as a manifestation of survival,” he said.
Dr. Bizimana added that GEARG championed commemoration of completely wiped out families which would have no people to commemorate them since all their family members were killed.
A family is completely wiped out when the parents and all their children were all killed in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
“It’s the initiative of the young survivors at GAERG who start commemorating the families that were completely wiped out. As CNLG we give them support in their noble cause and we applaud them for it” he said.
According to figures from GAERG, since 2009, they have identified 15,593 families whose 68,871 family members were completely wiped out during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Fidele Nsengiyaremye, the body’s executive secretary, said that the documentation of wiped out family was initiated to defeat genocide denial.
“The collection and preservation of this history is a sign of defeating denial,” he said.
Of the 15593 families that were wiped out, nearly 30 percent of them were enumerated in Karongi District Western Province and Nyamagabe in Southern Province.
GAERG is writing a comprehensive book and making a documentary film about the families that were completely wiped out during the genocide.
“We want the book and the documentary film to be out by April 2020 during Kwibuka26,” he said, adding that they are also “developing a database that will include the location of the wiped out families”
In Early October 2019, the Senate published a report on genocide denial and genocide, revealing that genocide the two evils had sharply declined within the country but rising abroad.
The figures showed that in 2006 there was much genocide denial in the county but were minimal in the new finding of this year.
During the publication of the report, the Executive Secretary at GAERG Fidele Nsengiyaremye proposed that genocide prevention should be a cross-cutting concern for all government and non-government organisations.
Dr. Bizimana says that the young men and women at GAERG are very active in publishing pieces of literature that reveal facts about genocide and fighting denial.
“GAERG has been publishing several facts about the Genocide and that is important in minimizing denial,” he said in an interview with this magazine.
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According to figures from the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), nearly 12 percent of Rwandans have mental depression.
The figures sharply rise to nearly 35 percent among genocide survivors.
In an effort to meet the challenge, GAERG opened a mental health centre in January 2019 called Aheza Healing and Career Centre located at Ntarama in Bugesera District.
While opening the healing centre, health Minister Diane Gashumba said the ministry looked forward to working with Aheza Healing and Carrier Center to curb mental health challenges across the country.
“We need the centre to boost our programmes in mental health to be more effective across the country,” she said.
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Since 2017, GAERG in collaboration with survivors’ fund (SURF) has benefited 25 members include three factory firms that were given bigger amount through the G- Innovation Development Fund (GIDF) and 22 with entrepreneurial start-ups.
“The three who were given bigger funds depending on the size of their businesses and they pay 10 percent interests” according to Pascal Ndayambaje in charge of Business Development at GAERG.
Ndayambaje said that “those who were given the support through GIDF include a bread factory, flour making factory and an online services company”
The innovation fund to the 22 is given to small entrepreneurs.
“GAERG stands in as the collateral security for the small entrepreneurs who are starting from nothing and stay with them to enable them to raise the 10 percent interest of the principal loan” Ndayambaje explained.
According to Ndayambaje, some have finished servicing the loans of which three want more loans.
“The three who want more loans will get it along with more five who applied for the support,” he said.
Regis Mugiraneza is a manager at Carl Group which owns a bread factory that makes bread from sweet potatoes.
“Late last year, I received Rwf7.5 million for the company’s factory. I had them machine operators but I needed installation, packaging, authorisation from a standards body and many more”
Since they started operations, they supply the sweet potato bread to more than 20 supermarkets in Kigali as they’re extending their factory to increase production and variety.
Samuel Mfitumukiza was a freelancer mechanic who used to move with his toolbox around Kigali to find a vehicle to fix.
“When I presented my business proposal to GAERG, I received a loan such that I can have a spare parts shop,” Mfitumukiza said.
Situated at Muhima in Kigali, Mfitumukiza is aiming at widening his business to become a garage.
GAERG has registered the Generation Innovation
Development Fund (GIDF) at Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and is seeking a certificate from the Capital market.
“We want people to save as well as supporting each other through the fund”
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From Government institutions through non-profit organisations to the private sector, survivors have been paid attention to, according to Egide Gatali the body’s president.
“We thank the government from the bottom of our hearts from President Paul Kagame to the lowest levels of leadership for their support of and making survivors’ concerns a priority”
We thank the Ministry of Justice and its affiliated institutions including CNLG who support us in seeking justice for genocide survivors
We also thank local government ministry and its affiliations such as FARG which has provided academic supported to genocide survivors, improving both social and economic affairs of survivors
The Ministry of Health and Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) has been very instrumental in survivors’ health and particularly mental health. A lot of surveys have been conducted and support to meet depression challenges.
Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) is the custodians of the non-profit organisation have been supporting us to achieve our goals.
We highly appreciated the Rwanda Development Board for its various support to our organization.
When we thought of a mental health centre, Bugesera District came out to support us.
We thank the district where the Aheza Healing and Career Centre is located. We as well thank our incredible sponsor Energy Utility Corporation Limited (EUCL) who supported the building of the above said Center.
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We cannot find the right words to express our thanks to Imbuto Foundation, Aegis Trus, European Grass root Anti-racism Movement, the Survivors’ Fund (SURF), student survivors’ association (AERG), women survivors association (AVEGA) and many more.
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We thank Bank of Kigali (BK), COGEBANK, transport agencies and several individuals for their financial support.
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According to Nsengiyaremye the executive secretary at GAERG, genocide survivors are still regarded just like the rest of Rwandans in various aspects.
“The people in the communities where survivors live disregard several facts about survivors including the fact that they are demoralised with family issues”
Nsengiyaramye said that challenges such as unemployment are seen in general to the public, forgetting that it can be very detrimental to a genocide survivor.
“Society thinks of unemployment as a challenge in general but, imagine, a genocide survivor without a job, they have no parents or relatives to go to and no home to sleep and wait for opportunities,” he said.
He added that “we’re facing a big challenge in financial capacity because there’s a lot to do than there is the capacity to do”
Another challenge Nsengiyaremye stressed is genocide denial, the last step in genocide execution.
“Genocide denial does not only add assault to injuries sustained by survivors but also confuses people who would be willing to support survivors”
“Supporters start doubting if the people they’re supporting are really the survivors who deserve the support” Nsengiyaremye explained.
But despite the challenges, GAERG and other survivors’ organisations under Ibuka have stood the test of time for the last 16 years and are optimistic about the future of survivors.
“Our core values are integrity, excellence, innovation in a challenging world, and collaboration. These are values that have made us who we are and will become who we want to be”
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Hamdun Twizeyimana, the Police spokesperson for the Eastern region, said that Evode Nyamuberwa had concealed 438 pellets of cannabis in a jerrycan of milk. He was at the time attempting to board a public vehicle to Kigali.
“Nyamuberwa was reported by employees of the travel agency of whose taxi he was trying to board after it was suspected that he had narcotics in his jerrycan of milk,” CIP Twizeyimana said.
“He was returning to Kigali where he resides with the narcotics. When Police responded to the call by the employees of the travel agency, they poured milk in another container only to find 438 pellets cannabis in the milk,” he added.
CIP Twizeyimana commended the vigilance of the employees of the travel agency.
“Such vigilance plays an important community policing role in identifying tricks used by drug traffickers and breaking chains of supply,” said the spokesperson.
Some of the identified tricks used by drug traffickers include wrapping them around their body, women veils, pumpkins and other groceries, tires, and fuel tanks, among others.
The decorated officers, constitute three contingents; two Rwanda Formed Police Units (FPUs) and a Protection and Support Unit (PSU), each composed of 140 police officers.
Others serve as Individual Police Officers (IPOs), and act as advisors and mentors.
Whereas FPU specializes in public order management like crowd control, facilitating delivery of humanitarian assistance, escort duties and protection of UN facilities, PSU undertakes special duties such as protection for VIPs and other duties assigned by the Joint Task-Force (JTFB) command.
The medal parade ceremony was held at the Rwanda FPU base camp in the capital Bangui and was presided over by Mr. Kenneth Gluck, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (DSRSG) in charge of Political Affairs and Protection of Civilians in MINUSCA.
Present was also MINUSCA Joint Task Force for Bangui (JTFB) Commander, Brigadier General Coulibaly Bamoro, Police Commissioner, Gen. Pascal Champion as well as the Rwandan community and friends of Rwanda in CAR, among others.
The DSRSG commended the Rwandan peacekeepers for their sacrifice in restoring peace for the people of CAR.
He urged them to keep on combatting sexual exploitation and abuse in the remaining period of their mission mandate.
’’I extend my appreciation to Rwanda for the contribution in UN peacekeeping missions,” Mr. Gluck said.
He added: “Despite various challenges, you played an outstanding role in ensuring safety and security in CAR especially the Protection of Government institutions and protection of internally displaced persons. This guarantees your significant contribution to safety and security during the upcoming electoral period.”
“These medals you are awarded today are merit, keep up the good until the end of your mission.’’
MINUSCA Police Commissioner, Champion commended the Government of Rwanda and the decorated peacekeepers for their role in security and peace restoration in CAR.
’’I appreciate the Government and the Police of Rwanda for the contribution in ensuring peace and security in CAR through various actions, which were extended to the people through community policing and human security activities.”
I thank His Excellency Paul Kagame [President of the Republic of Rwanda] who visited CAR last month, for his outstanding role and commitment in international peace management,’’ Gen. Champion said.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Damas Gatare, the contingent commander for RWAFPU One, who spoke on behalf of the decorated contingents, thanked MINUSCA and CAR leadership as well as the people of CAR for their support and facilitation in the accomplishment of their mandates.
‘’I take this opportunity to recognize the endless and immeasurable cooperation and support extended to us by MINUSCA, National Security Forces, local leadership and the community that made our daily tasks a success,’’ ACP Gatare said.
Rwanda was the first country to deploy a contingent of Police officers in CAR in August 2014, a month before the blue berets officially took over the peacekeeping mandate from the African Union.
Shincheonji, Church of Jesus, the temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (Chairman Man-Hee Lee, Shincheonji, Church of Jesus as below) hosted the successful ‘100,000 Graduation Ceremony’ on the 10th where 100,000 people officially were registered as congregation members and wrote a new history in spreading the gospel.
A person from Shincheonji, Church of Jesus commented “Having 100,000 graduates all over the world at once is the most unprecedented event in the world. Furthermore, there are about 200,000 who are at their studies currently and with this trend, the number of Shincheonji, Church of Jesus will exceed 1 million members within 3 years.”
The total number of graduates on this day was summed up to 103,764. Notably, the evangelism rate of these graduates was confirmed to be 142%, which indicates the geometric growth of Shincheonji, Church of Jesus is at hand.
Under the theme ‘Optimizing your decision-making capacity’, attendees represented over 14 industries from Rwanda’s largest and most influential firms in manufacturing, investment and financial services, real estate, construction, agro-processing, hospitality, ICT and professional services.
In an aim to further establish the summit’s commitment to the private sector and next generation of leaders, seven students from the African Leadership University (ALU) consulting club were invited to participate in the larger conversation.
This year’s summit comes on the heels of Karisimbi Business Partner’s 10-year anniversary in Kigali, Rwanda.
Focusing on the summit theme, the morning long agenda featured exclusive, cutting edge research and analysis from Karisimbi Business Partners, keynote address and breakout workshop sessions led by Rwanda’s leading experts in the fields of business, consulting, finance, and leadership coaching.
This research and analysis revealed effective decision making requires immense self-awareness, as well as awareness of the organizational structure and culture one is working within.
The Kilimanjaro Ballroom space at the Kigali Marriott hotel was transformed into a ‘meetings imagined’ experience, featuring a craft coffee station and an array of live food stations enjoyed by summit attendees prior to entering the summit.
Attendees heard from keynote, Cherno Gaye, CEO of Cogebanque Plc on the importance of achieving collaborative advantage and the importance of profit for sustainable operations and delivering shareholder value.
Followed by a three-part leadership workshop co-facilitated by Annet Baingana, founder of AB Leadership Solutions and Carter Crockett, co-founder and partner of Karisimbi Business Partners; the sessions focused on helping Rwanda-based business leaders better understand how different decision-making styles influence growth and effectiveness, success, and goal accomplishments in current organizations.
Rwanda’s business sector is booming with growth and opportunity, and there is space for all kinds of leaders.
Awareness of these styles will allow leaders in the marketplace to provide expert guidance to the businesses they lead, one decision at a time. “If you look at our landscape now, there are threats all over the place.
If the building blocks of competitive advantage are the activities that we do and the activities change, you stand to lose your competitive advantage”, said Cherno Gaye, CEO of Cogebanque Plc.
What the summit revealed, beyond the research gathered, was the strong desire from Rwanda’s leaders to always strive for the excellence.
Now with the second annual Rwanda CEO Summit completed, Karisimbi Business Partners aims to stay committed to hosting this yearly private sector keynote event to spur meaningful dialogue and concrete action that helps encourage new partnerships and develop Rwanda’s private sector.
Karisimbi Business Partners created and produced the 2019 Rwanda CEO Summit in partnership with AB Leadership Solutions, The John Maxwell Team, Cogebanque Plc, Akagera Business Group, Mercedes Benz, Kigali Marriott Hotel, and Rwandair.
The study, which was commissioned to analyze the procurement policies applied, understand the capacities and constraints of women-owned enterprises and propose concrete measures for Gender-Responsive public procurement in Rwanda, noted that despite a range of commendable initiatives towards the advancement of gender equality and women’s empowerment in the country, women-owned businesses find themselves largely excluded in public procurement processes.
In her opening remarks, UN Women Country Representative, Ms. Fatou Lo, noted that public procurement alone accounts for around 15 to 30 percent of GDP in many countries globally, hence it is critical to creating an enabling environment for women-owned businesses to grow and thrive. ‘‘One way to encourage entrepreneurship is to stimulate demand for goods and services supplied by women-owned businesses. Procuring entities such as governments, corporations, and international organizations stand to benefit from diverse supplier bases, which foster productivity and innovation and guard against shocks,’’ said Ms. Fatou Lo.
Based on various indicators, the study reveals that out of the 332 won tenders selected for this study between 2016 and 2019, women-owned businesses won only 43 tenders which represents 13 percent of the selected tenders. In monetary value, the total value of tenders won by women owned businesses represent 5% of the total value of the selected tenders.
Moreover, women-owned businesses mainly won soft tenders such as supply of services, refreshments, event management and supply of office furniture, while men-owned businesses dominated in big tenders such as constructions and supply of agricultural inputs.
The study points to a number of barriers and challenges that hinder women-owned businesses to participate in public tenders.
These include lack of financial, social and human capital, hefty bid security and long experience especially for start-ups, limited knowledge about procurement processes, exposure to sexual advances by some procurement officers as a pre-condition for awarding contracts as well as limited access to market information and ICT.
In responding to further steps towards achieving gender equitable economic development. Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa, Chairperson of New Faces New Voices said ‘‘at New Faces New Voices we are bridging the gap between financial institutions and women doing businesses in informal and formal sector, we understand the needs of women and what financial institutions are offering”
Through solid, in-depth analysis and data, this evidence-based report provides key recommendations for actions that governments and others can take in order to render Rwanda’s public procurement system more gender-responsive.
These includes awareness raising on opportunities offered by governing laws on procurement, capitalizing on Rwanda’s Community Approach to engage women organizations such as cooperatives to engage and benefit from public procurement at local level, sensitizing women entrepreneurs to participate in work-related bids such as through Joint-ventures, and designing interventions for women entrepreneurs to enhance their capacities in areas such as financial management, tax processes, procurement processes, use of e-procurement and other ICT facilities, among others.
This study was proposed not only to document major challenges faced by Rwandan women owned-businesses in engaging in public procurement processes but also to highlight areas that require policy dialogue and potential refinements to render Rwanda’s public procurement system more gender-responsive.
In her closing remarks, Hon. Solina Nyirahabimana, Minister of Gender and Family Promotion in Rwanda called and committed to deliberate, intentional and bold actions in empowering women and girls entrepreneurs.
‘‘We need to draw a strong call for action now going forward. These evidence based findings in gender responsive public procurement requires us to collectively take bold action towards improving women owned businesses to successfully compete in public tenders,’’ noted Hon. Solina Nyirahabimana.
The shift in focus comes in the 27th week of the year-long campaign designed to influence positive actions of all categories of road users motorists, cyclists, motorcyclists, passengers, and pedestrians.
While addressing about 7,000 commercial motorcyclists at Nyamirambo stadium, Commissioner of Police (CP) Rafiki Mujiji, commissioner for Traffic and Road Safety, highlighted violation of pedestrian crosswalks, traffic control lights, speeding, one-way and maneuvers as major traffic offences by motorcyclists causing fatal accidents.
“Having structures—cooperatives, union, and federation—is a good foundation to build on to have a professional motorcycle transport system with maximum respect for traffic rules and regulations. That comes back to the responsibility and responsiveness of each motorcyclist; even one person can create positive change… it starts with you,” CP Mujiji said.
“Speeding through pedestrian crosswalks and pathways is still a common phenomenon causing security concerns for pedestrians; use of phone while riding is another dangerous and common practice. When riding, we urge you to have a maximum concentration on the road. Roads are built for all categories of road users with equal rights, which should be respected.”
CP Mujiji also hinted on cleanliness and body hygiene as practices that should define motorcyclists, as they move in the right direction in the national security and development agenda.
Commercial motorcyclists have formed road safety clubs, with the purpose of spearheading road safety and community policing programmes within their respective cooperatives.
According to Daniel Ngarambe, the president Ferwacotamo, a federation of taxi-motor cooperatives in the country, 182 road safety clubs will be established across the country.
“We have 182 cooperatives of motorcycles across the country, meaning each cooperative will have a road safety club of 50 members, who will be responsible for advising their colleagues on road safety usage, oversee and report errant members.
We started in Kigali with 40 clubs. We believe this structure will help to reverse the image of motorcyclists in terms of safer road usage,” Ngarambe said.
Chimith Nyarwaya, one of the members of the established clubs in Kigali, said that Gerayo Amahoro is designed for their safety.
“I have been in the motorcycle public transport for 19 years now; it’s my source of income to support my family of eight, who depend on me. If I am not safe on the road it means that my family is also insecure, and being safe means my family is safe and secure, capable of getting basic needs,” said Nyarwaya.
“I volunteered to be in road safety clubs because Gerayo Amahoro is for our own safety and the wellbeing of our families. When you greet your passenger with Gerayo Amahoro, you are giving him or her hope that you will arrive safely and you are conveying the message of road safety to the young and old you are transporting, that way you can change behaviors of people on road usage,” he added.
According to Ferwacotamo president, Daniel Ngarambe, fresh registration of members has helped to identify those who operate illegally.
“We have signed agreements with companies selling motorcycles so as to help our registered members, who work on contracts, to own theirs instead of operating underground, which also results into engaging in criminal activities and violation of traffic rules,” said Ngarambe.
“We are also in the final stages of ensuring that each member gets Rwf1 million in case of an accident and helping them get affordable houses through their monthly membership contributions. All this has attracted many operators to register and join cooperatives to access such benefits. We believe this will make them responsible people on road and in communities.”
The high-level meetings will feature various activities such as the plenary of the ACP Parliamentary Assembly, meeting of the commissions of ACP, Youth Conference, Women’s Forum, and the formal opening of the 38th Session of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly and plenary proceedings.
Members of the ACP-EU Joint Parliament Assembly will visit different projects including Karama Integrated Model Village, Mount Kigali Power Substation and Bella Flowers project.
The Assembly will debate the state of food security and nutrition, integration of a gender perspective into conflict management and migration and sustainable growth for people with the aim to bring the matters to resolutions on “challenges addressed at the COP25” and on the “threat of climate change to fisheries and aquaculture.”
The assemblies bring together about 350 participants from 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific states and 28 European Parliament.
The Joint Parliamentary Assembly is the only international assembly in which the representatives of various countries sit together regularly with the aim of promoting the interdependence of North and South where representatives of the 79 ACP states who, under the Cotonou Agreement, meet their 28 European Parliament counterparts twice a year in plenary session alternately in the European Union and an ACP states,
