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Meetings
ACARE facilitates a variety of meetings to ensure the network of scientific experts effectively network, exchange information, and strengthen science.
Annual Meetings
Annual meetings consist of the members of each of the six advisory groups to ensure regional exchange of information and harmonization of approaches across lake basins. Annual meetings are open to the public and guest speakers and interested members of the global scientific community and the public are welcome. Registration and inquiries can be made on specific annual meeting pages.
ACARE Annual Meeting 2025
The 2025 Annual Meeting will be held in Zambia, one of our partner countries that harbors the southern end of Lake Tanganyika.
Date: February 4-6, 2025
Location: Lusaka, Zambia
ACARE Annual Meeting 2024
The 2024 Annual Meeting was held on the shores of Lake Victoria.
Dates: February 6-8, 2024
Location: Kisumu, Kenya
ACARE Annual Meeting 2023
The 2023 Annual Meeting was held in partnership with the Great Lakes of the World (GLOW) conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. While not on one of the African Great Lakes, the conference was surrounded by water and fish of the Indian Ocean.
Dates: February 6-8, 2023
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
ACARE Annual Meeting 2021
The 2021 Annual Meeting was held virtually due to the global pandemic preventing travel and gatherings.
Dates: December 7-9, 2021
Location: Virtual
ACARE Annual Meeting 2020
For posterity, we should mention COVID-19, and how the pandemic changed in-person gatherings. Like other meetings, ACARE’s annual meeting was a successful one-day, recorded meeting.
Date: December 10, 2020
Location: Virtual
ACARE Annual Meeting 2019
The 2019 “annual meeting” was actually ACARE’s inaugural in-person workshop. The workshop developed what are now the six advisory groups.
Dates: November 5-7, 2019
Location: Entebbe, Uganda
African Great Lakes Conference
ACARE and its partners facilitate a triennial international conference of knowledge exchange and networking for researchers working on the African Great Lakes (and other large lakes globally) for the purpose of enhancing further research, collaborations, and trust.
Date: February 2026 (exact date TBD)
Location: Arusha, Tanzania
Advisory Group Meetings
Each Advisory Group meets on a monthly basis, virtually and once a year in person (at the ACARE Annual Meeting). To request being a part of an individual Advisory Group meeting, please contact Zeph Migeni at Zeph@agl-acare.org