About AHEAD Africa
AHEAD Africa is a pan-African EU co-funded project aiming to strengthen civil society’s monitoring capacities in electoral related issues and enhance electoral integrity across African Union member states.
Guided by the AHEAD approach, we emphasise follow-up to election observation recommendations to advocate for electoral reforms to enhance free and fair elections, integrity and trust-building.

What we do
Recommendations and advocacy initiatives for more electoral integrity.
Partners
Led by the European Partnership for Democracy.
Activists’ Network

Citizen Observers Networks




Democracy Support Networks


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Latest news
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South Sudan: 2025 is the make-or-break year
We propose reforms to ensure the 2026 elections not only happen, but happen with integrity.
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Lessons from Southern Africa 2024 elections
2024 elections in SADC tested the seams of what holds, and what’s coming apart.
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Time for solutions to Africa’s electoral challenges
Solutions to 2024 election observation challenges during a seminar by AfEONet.
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