Welcome to the Association of Parliamentary Libraries of Eastern and Southern Africa (APLESA) website.

APLESA is an organization, which strives to promote co-operation by networking and resource sharing thereby creating a forum for information exchange that will support the function of parliaments in the region. The primary mission of APLESA is to establish a forum for professional networking and resource sharing amongst parliamentary libraries in the sub-region.

APLESA membership includes the parliaments of Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.