The Network of African Data Protection Authorities Personal Data Protection Authorities (NADPA/RAPDP) was created in Ouagadougou in September 2016, on the sidelines of the African Forum on the Protection of Personal Data.
It currently brings together several African privacy and personal data protection authorities, from different geographical and linguistic areas, with the aim of creating a platform for exchange and cooperation and cooperation between its members, and to speak for the contient its partners around the world.
NADPA/RAPDP is responsible for:
– to organise close cooperation between its members in order to promote the sharing of ideas and experience on issues related to their missions;
– support governments in drafting privacy and personal data protection laws and the establishment of data protection authorities;
– give opinions or make statements on specific issues relating to protection of privacy and personal data;
– to provide a forum for discussion of the issues and challenges facing Africa in terms of the protection of privacy and personal data of privacy and personal data in Africa;
– promote African legal instruments for the protection of privacy and personal data, and and ensure that they reflect the realities of the continent;
– to cooperate with other African and international bodies and associations , to consolidate the right to privacy and personal data.
Statutes of the African Network of Personal Data Protection Authorities (ANPDP)
We, African personal data protection authorities meeting at the second the Second African Forum on the Protection of Personal Data, held in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) on 20 and 21 September 2016; Wishing to follow up the conclusions of the first African Forum on Personal Data Protection (FA/PDP) held in Dakar on 19 and 20 May 2015;
Considering the international, regional and sub-regional instruments relating to the protection of personal data;
Considering the respective legislation of the Member States on the protection of personal data;
Convinced that the protection of personal data is a factor in the economic and social social development of Africa and thata framework for cooperation and collaboration cooperation and collaboration between protection authorities is necessary to meet the new common challenges;
Acknowledging the significant progress made in Africa with regard to the protection of personal data since the adoption of national legislation in line with international standards and the gradual establishment of data protection authorities;
Aware of our role in supporting States in the process of adopting personal data protection laws and gradually and the gradual establishment of personal data protection authorities;
Convinced of the need to set up an African Network of Protection Authorities;
The General Meeting held in Casablanca on 23 February 2018, amend the network ‘s Articles of Association adopted in Ouagadougou on 21 September 2016.
