Charter Project Africa · May 2024
The original 39-page booklet names initiatives, activities and research. Compare its programme groups in the directory; the count is tied to this edition.
Read the original PDF ↗CIVIC TECH FUND AFRICA
Research and learning library
Original documents, their real publication dates and practical ways to use them. Read the source before carrying a historical finding into a new project.
ACDEG dialogue · 13 April 2022
Discussion outcomes from the 15-year adoption and 10-year entry-into-force anniversary. Institutional roles and ratification figures describe the 2022 discussion.
Read the original PDF ↗Assessing Civic Tech That Works · source published 2023
Aisha Dabo and Raphael Pouyé examine African civic technology. The PDF carries a 2022 copyright line; the linked publication is from 2023. Use its historical evidence alongside a new local assessment.
Read the original PDF ↗EAC · 2023-09-11
The 2023 study examines the Consultative Dialogue Framework, barriers to observer status and the role of civil society networks in engagement with the EAC.
Read the original PDF ↗ECOWAS · 2023-07-03
The 2023 study contrasts sustained technical cooperation, including early warning, with more limited engagement on civic rights and political accountability in ECOWAS.
Read the original PDF ↗SADC · 2023-09-11
The 2023 study examines ad hoc civil society engagement with SADC and uncertainty, at that time, around a proposed mechanism for non-state actors.
Read the original PDF ↗Zambia · 2022
Historical call: eligibility, EUR 30,000 total budget, individual grants of EUR 10,000–15,000 and selection process.
Original issuer PDF ↗DWF grantee fact sheet · 2023
Seven organisations are listed across four countries; six have individual profiles. The fact sheet documents that cohort, not current impact.
Original issuer PDF ↗Regional symposium · 12–14 March 2024
Information pack for the Johannesburg symposium: planned agenda, biographies and programme context. An agenda is not proof of attendance or completed outcomes.
Original issuer PDF ↗Zambia dialogue · 29 June 2023
Lusaka dialogue information pack on ACDEG, civic technology and civil society participation. Read as an event programme from 2023.
Original issuer PDF ↗Botswana dialogue · 18–19 May 2023
Concept note for the Gaborone dialogue linking democratic governance, civic technology and AGA participation.
Original issuer PDF ↗South Africa dialogue · 27–28 July 2023
Johannesburg dialogue information pack: historical programme context and planned sessions on governance and civic participation.
Original issuer PDF ↗SADC guidelines · 3 April 2023
Issuer edition dated 3 April 2023, with priorities, support, selection and eligibility. Its filename directory is not its publication date.
Original issuer PDF ↗Charter evaluation terms of reference · 2023
Original issuer PDF ↗GIZ African Union · Annual Report 2025
Original issuer PDF ↗Reading guide
EAC
Work through the EAC participation route
Prepare an institutional route before collecting contributions.
↗ECOWASMake an ECOWAS evidence brief usable
Distinguish technical cooperation from a policy request.
↗SADCPrepare a SADC engagement plan
Build a route that remains usable when access is uncertain.
↗Work with the evidence
SOURCE → PRACTICE
Read a grantee fact sheet without overstating impact
Turn a programme description into an evidence trail, then identify the questions that still need answers.
↗SOURCE → PRACTICEPrepare a civic tech programme evaluation
Create a decision-focused evidence matrix before collecting more data.
↗SOURCE → PRACTICEFrom a civic tech tool to a usable public service
Use documented programme examples to design a service pathway you can verify locally.
↗Explore the programme evidence
PROGRAMME → PRACTICE
AU-ECOSOCC digital engagement: the original application package
Read the 2023–2024 call, recover its three original files and plan an audience engagement project with clear deliverables.
↗PROGRAMME → PRACTICECivic Tech Fellowship, cohort 2: prepare a delivery portfolio
The closed 2023 fellowship shows how technical skills can support a civic organisation. Use it to build evidence of what you can deliver.
↗PROGRAMME → PRACTICEInnov4Democracy 2024: from a competition to a maintained service
Read the organiser’s results and use a practical handover checklist to assess what happens after a civic tech hackathon.
↗PROGRAMME → PRACTICEWomen and youth in civic participation: start with access
An original AU webinar document provides the programme context. A participation audit turns that context into a usable project design.
↗PROGRAMME → PRACTICEECOSOCC Citizens Forum: turn policy documents into an evidence brief
Read the 2022 policy report alongside the 2025 concept note, while separating recommendations, proposed sessions and demonstrated implementation.
↗PROGRAMME → PRACTICEPan-African citizen consultation 2023: prepare a policy contribution
Two recovered Charter Project documents connect thematic consultation with a country brief. Use them to write a focused, traceable contribution.
↗Practical reading
- Read a project booklet without turning activities into impact
The Charter Project Africa booklet dated May 2024 is a 39-page publication. Read its project description, civic-tech projects, dialogues, research and advocacy as different kinds of evidence, then build a traceable contribution map.
- Compare grant guidelines without mixing programmes
The recovered country and regional guidelines describe different calls issued in 2021–2023. Use a versioned comparison card to distinguish who could apply, what support was described and how selection worked. These documents do not establish an open application window today.
- Before building another civic tech tool, test its route to use
Aisha Dabo and Raphael Pouyé’s twelve-page study examines civic technology that serves citizens and public institutions. The PDF carries a 2022 copyright statement and references accessed in April 2023; neither its figures nor its named initiatives should be presented as current observations.