The main mission of the NBDF is to bring the Civil Society Organisations to a level of fully playing their role in the Nile Basin development designed by the Nile Basin Initiative through competence development, capacity building, setting up networks and solid links on all the levels of the Civil...
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The main mission of the NBDF is to bring the Civil Society Organisations to a level of fully playing their role in the Nile Basin development designed by the Nile Basin Initiative through competence development, capacity building, setting up networks and solid links on all the levels of the Civil Society and the Government.

The following missions come from member associations of the Forum, and the NBDF integrated them to reinforce the main mission. It is a matter of:

1. Promoting a safe and pleasant environment for a reinforced and durable socio-economic development
2. Reinforcing associations and cooperatives in order to ensure food security through a durable agriculture based on rational exploitation of local resources free of danger towards the environment.
3. Contributing to make the Rwandan woman from the rural area a player of her own development and the development of her society and we should notice that a woman is considered to be a recognised spokesperson as far as development is concerned.
4. Promoting the active contribution of the Rwandan woman to the development
5. Working for sustainable human development in the rural area, shared between women and men.
6. Empowering the population to build a better and durable development.
7. To ensure the culture of respecting the civil, political, cultural and socio-economic rights in favour of every person living in Rwanda without any discrimination.
8. To plead in favour of Environment and natural resources protection in order to ensure a durable development;







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The Nile Basin Discourse Forum in Rwanda (NBDF) was launched in June 2003 by the Minister of State in charge of Water and Mines, Professor MUNYANGANIZI Bikoro, during the workshop-Seminar on the role of the Civil Society in the process of the Nile Basin Initiative. The setting up of the bureau...
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The Nile Basin Discourse Forum in Rwanda (NBDF) was launched in June 2003 by the Minister of State in charge of Water and Mines, Professor MUNYANGANIZI Bikoro, during the workshop-Seminar on the role of the Civil Society in the process of the Nile Basin Initiative. The setting up of the bureau of the Forum took place during the workshop organised in Kigali in September 2003.

Those workshops grouped together various representatives from governmental institutions, UN Agencies, NGOs, Public and private media, researchers and academicians. Their Excellencies Ambassadors of Egypt and Burundi to Rwanda also participated in that seminar as a sign of encouragement and support for the commitment of the Civil Society in the Nile Basin Initiative.
The Forum has a local NGO status, grouping associations that intervene within the fields of environment protection, rural development, gender, human rights, etc.
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The bodies of the NBDF are the General Assembly, the Executive Committee and the Coordination.

General Assembly

The General Assembly is made up of all legally registered and admitted members of the Forum. It is a supreme body of the Forum. It meets once a year in...
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The bodies of the NBDF are the General Assembly, the Executive Committee and the Coordination.

General Assembly

The General Assembly is made up of all legally registered and admitted members of the Forum. It is a supreme body of the Forum. It meets once a year in the ordinary General Assembly or whenever there is a need for an Extraordinary Assembly. The General Assembly rules on the functioning of the forum, examines, and approves the plan of action, the budget, and annual reports. Only the General Assembly can admit or exclude a member from the Forum. The General Assembly votes or dismisses legal representatives of the Forum as well. Finally, the General Assembly can also amend the statutes and dissolve the Forum.

The Executive Committee

The executive committee is made up of the Legal Representative who is also Chairperson of the Forum, the deputy Legal representative who is also the deputy chairperson of the Forum, the Secretary General; the treasurer and Advisors. All of them are elected by the General Assembly from the effective members. They are elected for a mandate of three years renewable once. The executive committee meets every month or more as need may be.

National Coordination

It is made up of the National Coordinator and supporting staff who ensure daily and permanent services of the NBDF.


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