AHEAD AFRICA

Elections are often a trigger for instability in many African countries. Given this context, AHEAD Africa offers a comprehensive approach focusing on capacity building, knowledge generation, monitoring, collaboration, networking and advocacy, to ensure free, transparent, inclusive, fair and peaceful electoral processes across the continent.

🎯Goals

Empower African civil society, including citizen observers, to strengthen electoral systems and processes, in order to contribute to the improvement of electoral integrity in African Union Member States through capacity building, knowledge generation and monitoring, collaboration and networking, as well as advocacy.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Targets

Citizen observer groups
Electoral authorities
National decision-makers
Representatives of regional economic communities
African Union officials
Civil society

📅Duration

4 years

🏳️Area of intervention

Pan-African

🤝Partners

European Union

AfricTivistes launches the African Election Civic Tech Fund!

AfricTivistes has announced the launch of the €175,000 Innovation Fund for Citizen Participation in Electoral Processes in Africa (Election Civic Tech Fund), aimed at supporting civic technology initiatives across 14 countries: Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Chad, Cameroon, Mauritania, Niger, Mali, and Togo. The fund addresses needs identified in AfricTivistes’ […]

13 juin, 2025Read More

Sóobu, the platform showcasing electoral civic initiatives in Africa

As the integrity of elections—often a source of political and social instability—remains a challenge on the African continent, AfricTivistes launches Sóobu Tech4Elections, a digital tool designed to map, centralise, and make accessible citizen election initiatives across Africa since 2010. This platform highlights initiatives that play a crucial role in strengthening electoral democracies across the continent. […]

10 mars, 2025Read More

AfricTivistes maps citizen electoral initiatives in Africa

Elections in Africa are often marred by irregularities and socio-political tensions. As part of the AHEAD Africa project focusing on the many aspects of the electoral cycle in Africa, AfricTivistes has issued a form to map African civil society initiatives linked to electoral processes on the continent since 2010. In recent years in Africa, electoral […]

14 août, 2024Read More

AHEAD Africa launch focuses on citizen engagement for electoral transparency and integrity

The AHEAD Africa project was officially launched on Saturday, 20th July in Accra, Ghana, under the theme “Advancing Electoral Integrity through Citizen Engagement !” The launch was held on the sidelines of the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union (AU-Ecosocc), with the participation of civil […]

11 août, 2024Read More