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Annual Report 2010 Annual Report 2010 AFRICA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION CENTRE AFIC ii Annual Report 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of abbreviations...................................................................................................... 1 Foreword....................................................................................................................... 2 From The Coordinator/ Head Of Secretariat.................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................... 6 AFIC Background and Objectives.................................................................................... 6 Our Vision...................................................................................................................... 6 Programmmes, activities and results.................................................................................. 6 RESULT 1: FOI RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE STRENGTHENED......................... 8 Launch of ATI study Cameroon February 26-17, 2010................................................ 8 Regional Right to Information Meeting, Cape Town, March 10-11 2010........................ 9 Partnership Meeting to enhance the right of access to information in Africa through research and practice, Kampala, Uganda, November 23-24, 2010................................... 9 Research in Mali and Senegal........................................................................................... 10 Making use of Legal Analysis Research by Open Society Justice Initiative........................ 10 RESULT 2: IMPROVED ACCESS TO AND UTILISATION OF INFORMATION........... 11 Africa Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information, Accra Ghana............. 12 World Press Freedom Day 2010...................................................................................... 13 15th African Union Summit on Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa July 19, 27, Kampala Uganda.............................................................................. 13 Press Statement on Zambia.............................................................................................. 14 International Right to Know Day, September 28, 2010................................................... 15 RESULT 3: FOI MAINSTREAMED INTO REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS...................................................................................... 19 International Conference on Transparency, Free Flow of Information and Millennium Development Goals, London, August 23-25, 2010.......................................................... 20 The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights 48th Session, Banjul, The Gambia, November 10-14, 2010.................................................................................... 20 The African Platform on Access to Information................................................................ 22 RESULT 4: CAPACITY FOR CSO TO ADVOCATE FOR FOI STRENGTHENED........... 23 Inauguration of the International School for Transparency (IST), Cape Town, October, 2010................................................................................................................................ 23 AFIC Facilitates Training of Ugandan MPs.................................................................. 24 Access to Information Video Conferences.......................................................................... 25 Annual Report 2010 iii RESULT 5: NETWORK DEVELOPMENT............................................................... 26 International Conference of FOI Networks and Academic Research Centres , London, May, 2010...................................................................................................................... 27 AFIC and the TAI Network.......................................................................................... 27 The Global Gathering, Kampala, 26-30 October 2010................................................... 27 Mapping FOI Organisations on the continent................................................................... 28 Guests at AFIC Premises............................................................................... 28 Meeting with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kampala, June 2010.............................................................................................................. 28 STRENGTHENING AFIC.............................................................................................. 29 Setting up the Office and Secretariat................................................................. 29 Resource Mobilisation...................................................................................... 30 A Functioning Website.................................................................................... 30 AFIC Steering Committee gets new members................................................... 30 CONCLUSION............................................................................................................... 30 FINANCIAL STATEMENT............................................................................................. 31 End of English version and Beginning of French version................................. 33 iv Annual Report 2010 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ACHPR: African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights ACME: Africa Centre for Media Excellence AFIC: Africa Freedom of Information Centre ANCL: African Network of Constitutional Lawyers ANSA: Affiliated Network for Social Accountability APRM: African Peer Review Mechanism ATI: Access to Information ATIA: Access to Information Act CSO: Civil Society Organisation FOE: Freedom of Expression FOI: Freedom of Information HURINET: Human Rights Network ICC: International Criminal Court IMF: International Monetary Fund KIOS: Finnish NGO Foundation for Human Rights MDG: Millennium Development Goals MISA: Media Institute of Southern Africa ODAC: Open Democracy Advice Centre OSI: Open Society Initiative OSJI: Open Society Justice Initiative Annual Report 2010 1 FOREWORD The Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) was conceived through the civil society Lagos 2006 Declaration in which thirty civil society organizations from sixteen countries agreed to set up an FOI centre whose mandate would be to garner experiences in the different countries, facilitate sharing of experiences and providing technical assistance to organizations involved in any stage of Freedom of Information advocacy or implementation. During the year 2010 AFIC made significant progress towards the realization of this vision. The centre was successfully re-located to Kampala, Uganda. It was fully established with its registration in Kampala Uganda. The year 2010 also saw the completion of staff recruitment with the Coordinator, Programme Officer and Administrator fully on board. Resource mobilization processes, office setup and development of policies and systems for the management of human resources and other assets of the organization continued and policies were operationalised. Beginning with the Africa Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information, organized with the leadership of the Carter Centre in February 2010, AFIC has been active in promoting the right to information and supporting civil society initiatives around the continent. The February meeting energised debate on Africa and the right to information on the continent. Liberia adopted a national legislation while interesting developments are emerging from Sierra Leone, Ghana, Rwanda and Nigeria among others. With AFIC’s engagement and participation, the right of access to information is firmly being placed on development agenda. The September 2010 Millennium Development Summit held in New York, USA agreed with civil society that Africa needed to advance the right of access to information as a strategy to fast track the attainment of MDGs. The MDG summit was preceded by the Global Summit on MDGs and Transparency that was held in London, UK under the auspices of Article 19 with AFIC’s participation and engagement. The African Union and its institutions and organs set pace to initiate processes for standard setting. The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information initiated a consultation meeting on strengthening freedom of expression and access to information in the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). The Special Rapporteur 2 Annual Report 2010 also initiated an important process developing a model law on freedom of information in Africa. The right to information formed debate at various fora on transforming the African union through shared values. The above developments, notwithstanding the global financial crisis, the threat of terrorism in Africa and the massive publication of governments’ secrets by wikileaks have posed different forms of challenges to the development and implementation of freedom of information laws around the continent. I would like to express my gratitude to our Steering Committee members: the International Federation of Journalists (Africa Office, Senegal), Human Rights Network (Uganda), the Citizens’ Governance Initiative (Cameroon), International Commission of Jurists (Kenya), Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (Ghana), Media Foundation for West Africa (Ghana), the Open Democracy Advice Centre (South Africa), and the Open Society Justice Initiative (Africa) who have worked tirelessly to set
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