AFRIPAL CONVENING

The Africa Regional Convening on Parliament and Legislation (AFRIPAL) is a research conference on Legislation and parliamentary affairs in Africa.

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

“#AFRIPAL2025 intends to promote the exchange of best practices and innovations in Legislation across Africa”

🎙️@MuzeeHannah
Chairperson Organizing Committee

#AFRIPAL2025

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

#AFRIPAL 2025 breakout sessions didn't feel like panels. They felt like arguments people wanted to have.

More of that in Gaborone, 2027.

22-23 July. Proposals close 11 Sept 2026
https://t.co/wbycD0XfLn

#AFRIPAL2027

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

Call for proposals: 2nd #AFRIPAL closes 11 September 2026

Working on digital governance, legislative reform or public policy in Africa?
Submit a paper, panel session or roundtable.

🌍 Theme: African Parliaments in the digital age
📍 Gaborone, Botswana, 22–23 July 2027

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

2/2
25 hours of expert-led learning, online through Feb 2027, Optional hybrid finish in Berlin 2-3 March.
#AFRIPAL partners save 30% all.
Register now https://t.co/U87YWcS9bb

More info: https://t.co/DKPk4M9Qri

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

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#AFRIPAL2027, WFD, IALS & University of London bring you
✅ The Certified Course on Legislative Scrutiny, AI and Digital Lawmaking

It covers pre/post-legislative scrutiny, AI in parliamentary oversight, citizen engagement, cybersecurity, and agentic AI for parliament.

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

Digital transformation in African Parliaments is inevitable.

Who shapes it is not.
#AFRIPAL2027 is where African scholars and legislators take that question seriously.

Don't Miss: 📍Gaborone,Botswana July 2027.

Visit: https://t.co/DKPk4M9Qri for more information

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

Should laws be written for the public, or for the lawyers who apply them?

Prof. Mauro Zamboni's #AFRIPAL2025 keynote digs into that tension, using AI, cybersecurity & corporate governance as test cases.

Watch: https://t.co/GTBtPkQAZe

#AFRIPAL2027

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

Digital tools designed without women, youth, or disabled people in mind replicate existing exclusions.

#AFRIPAL2027 asks how parliaments fix this.

Sub-theme: Representation and Accountability in the Digital Era.

Don't miss: July 22-23, 2027, Gaborone Botswana.

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

"Africa can only transform if Africans own and drive that transformation." @Afidep 's Executive Director, Dr Eliya Zulu, on why AFRIPAL matters during the #AFRIPAL2025

Don't miss #AFRIPAL2027, 22-23 July 2027, Gaborone Botswana

Visit https://t.co/LaSPSdTiLw for more information

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

African parliaments are buying digital tools.
Are they building the people to use them?

#AFRIPAL2027 sub-theme: 𝘾𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨, answers this

Don't Miss
Visit: https://t.co/LaSPSdTiLw for more info

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

#AFRIPAL2027 is confirmed. Gaborone, Botswana. 22–23 July 2027.

African parliaments in the digital age. Submit your Proposal now.
https://t.co/1Rr9JYAARZ
Deadline 11 September 2026.

[CEPA @centre4policy]

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐀 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬

Are you a writer, researcher, journalist, policy analyst, academic or practitioner interested in public policy and governance?

CEPA is inviting public contributors to share evidence-informed articles, briefs, explainers and analysis.

Read the ToR ➡️ https://t.co/YB2SIatJno Submit: ➡️ [email protected]

#CEPAProgramming

[Marci Harris @marcidale]

TREMENDOUS program & opportunity. THIS is the kind of tech-to-policy understanding & leadership that we need! Kudos @ghadfield @sethlazar & Nicholas Caputo @govex_jhu https://t.co/fH1UiXK4Vd

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

#AFRIPAL2027 is confirmed. Gaborone, Botswana. 22–23 July 2027.

African parliaments in the digital age. Submit your Proposal now.
https://t.co/1Rr9JYAARZ
Deadline 11 September 2026.

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

What our inaugural AFRIPAL conference started, #AFRIPAL2027 continues.
Hear from our Chief Convener reflects on our inaugural conference and what it built

📌 Gaborone, Botswana. 22 to 23 July

[AFIDEP @Afidep]

Through the Pan-African Platform on Climate and Health, AFIDEP, Amref Health Africa and Pan African Climate Justice Alliance have contributed to efforts to place health at the centre of Africa’s climate resilience and development agenda.

Read the Common African Position on Climate Change and Health : https://t.co/NxWokSvqCp

[International IDEA @Int_IDEA]

🌎Is democracy facing its toughest test in decades?

🎙️ @Int_IDEA's Secretary-General Kevin Casas-Zamora joins @Aftonbladet journalist @anderslindberg to discusse the state of democracy worldwide and the challenges ahead.

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/8u9nLQKRq8

[CEPA @centre4policy]

Podcast Trailer | How can you COMPLY with it? What did we learn, and what did citizens gain? PROTECTION OF SOVEREIGNTY ACT EXPLAINED on the 68th #PolicyDigestPodcast with Phillip Karugaba and Justine Safari via https://t.co/L6HrDRlFUR

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

What our inaugural AFRIPAL conference started, #AFRIPAL2027 continues.
Hear from our Chief Convener reflects on our inaugural conference and what it built

📌 Gaborone, Botswana. 22 to 23 July

[AFRIPAL CONVENING @AfripalConf]

Most AI wasn't built with Africa in mind. African parliaments still have to regulate it.
Who controls the data? Who writes the rules?

These are some of the conversations Happening in Gaborone, July 2027 under #AFRIPAL2027

Be part of the conversation: https://t.co/LaSPSdTiLw

[Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis @BotsThinkTank]

Introducing our latest publication. Available here; https://t.co/DbV5E1QuUP