Cameroon Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CCDHR) is glad to support the ALEC 2009 Conference on Democracy, Good Governance, and Institutional Reform in Africa. This conference which is being organized by the African Leadership Empowerment Council (ALEC) in partnership with the Department of African Studies at Howard University is supported by various international and regional organizations, including CCDHR.

The conference will serve as a forum for open democratic dialogue among the entire population of expatriate Africans, the African-American community, and all other descendants of African ancestry in the United States. The conference will also help to forge connections with various African advocacy groups through specific leadership mechanisms intended to stimulate personal and mutual responsibility. The conference will pave the way for positive networking relations to foster strategies needed to promote democratic changes across the African continent.

ALEC in Focus

The African Leadership Empowerment Council (ALEC) is a US 527 political organization under the IRS Code promoting the Continental African participation in the American political mainstream as well as good governance and democratic transitions in Africa. ALEC is dedicated to assisting, strengthening, and collaborating with any, and all forces, as well as any organizations that are promoting and advocating democratic transitions in Africa, and the integration of Continental African in the American political process at all levels. In this conference, ALEC is going to launch a detailed template of leadership and political actions designed to highlight and implement its mission, vision and strategic goals as a political organization under the US Code.

Conference Goals

1.      The conference aims at projecting a Continental African Political Agenda in the American political process as well as the African Diaspora agenda for concerted effort to help the difficult democratic transitions in Africa.

2.      Project an agenda that can mobilize the entire population of expatriate Africans in the developed world as well as other Diaspora descendants of Africa.

3.      The focus is to establish a reputation as a political and action-oriented organization, and create an agenda that leads to action-items by the participants.

Participation at this conference is FREE !!!

ALEC Website:                   http://www.africanleadershipcouncil.org

Conference Invitation:         Click here (PDF)

Conference Website:           http://www.africanleadershipcouncil.org/news.html

Conference Date/Time:       Saturday May 30, 2009; 10am – 4pm

Conference Location:          Howard University Auditorium, Washington DC, USA