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Advisory Groups
ACARE facilitates a long-term scientific network to strengthen science and capacity in research, policy, and management on the seven African Great Lakes, and partners with global entities to conduct various programs and projects.
What are the African Great Lakes?
Why are they so important?
African Great Lakes Advisory Groups
Understanding that no one institution or entity can solve the problems on large lake resources, ACARE created six African Great Lakes Advisory Groups in 2019. Each group consists of African freshwater experts drawn from the riparian countries on which they exist.
Advisory Group Objectives
- Address the problems of inadequate, short-term, disparate research
- Ensure a healthy and functioning community of African freshwater experts and decision-makers to continue to address challenges on the African Great Lakes
- Respond to decades of ongoing calls for increased capacity building in Africa and to address freshwater issues
- Lake Edward Albert Advisory Group (LEAAG) – The LEAAG consists of experts from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, the two lake’s riparian countries.
- Lake Kivu Advisory Group (LKAG) – The LKAG is made up of experts from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
- Lake Malawi/Nyasa/Niassa Basin Fisheries and Aquaculture Network (LMNNBFAN) – The LMNNBFAN is made up of experts from the riparian countries of Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
- Lake Tanganyika-Science Advisory Group (LT-SAG) – The LT-SAG members are from the four riparian countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.
- Lake Turkana Advisory Group (LTuAG) – The LTuAG members are from Ethiopia and Kenya.
- Lake Victoria Advisory Group (LVAG) – LVAG members are from the riparian countries of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- Council of Advisory Groups – The Council consists of members from each of the above Advisory Groups, ensuring harmonized efforts across the African Great Lakes region.
Membership and Structure
Advisory Group Structure:
Members¹ are defined as:
- A resident of a riparian country bordering the lake in which they are working on;
- An expert on subjects relating to freshwater or large-lake sciences or issues on the lake(s) of that specific advisory group.
Expert Guests are defined as:
- Someone who has experience, knowledge or other value and can assist in specific areas of research, funding, strategy, projects, or processes. An Expert Guest is typically asked to join a meeting for a specific purpose.
Advisors¹ are defined as:
- A large-lakes or freshwater expert invited or requested to be a part of regularly scheduled, specific advisory group meetings and who has the appropriate background and desire to assist the group in strengthening science.
Observers² are defined as:
- Someone who is either requested or requests to attend a specific advisory group’s meeting(s). This might include a funder, someone with a relevant project who wants to attend and engage, or someone who is simply interested in the lake and learning about cooperative processes.
¹ This is a formal position on the advisory group. To apply and become a part of the advisory group in this position, you must meet the requirements and go through the process described in the terms of reference of the advisory group you wish to attend. You can access the terms of reference on the specific advisory group pages below and request to be a member or advisor.
² To be an observer, one must request to take part in a meeting at least five days prior to the meeting.
Combined Advisory Group Reports
Each of the six advisory groups meet monthly to discuss issues on their respective lake(s). Overall, every-two-month reports of the six advisory groups are available. You can also request individual monthly reports of each advisory group.
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