ECES has had several occasions to show the developments and outcomes of the alliance with the African Union (AU) and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

PRO-ELECTORAL INTEGRITY aims at contributing to peace and security through the development of a common culture of resilience and shared values around integrity in electoral processes, by strengthening the capacities of African EMBs in conducting free, fair, credible, inclusive and violence-free elections. In that sense, the project seeks to respond to the needs and priorities of the AU in the electoral field ahead of 2024 and 2025 which are busy electoral years in Africa, with several major elections in Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Somalia, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal and South Sudan, among others, and preparations in several transitioning countries that experienced extra-constitutional changes in the last years such as Burkina Faso, Guinee, Niger, Gabon and Tchad.

The technical support of ECES to the African Union on the activities mentioned above is critical through project management and electoral expertise. It is rooted in the framework of the joint MoU.

Indeed, the MoU is aimed at consolidating the AU’s efforts in the areas of election integrity, prevention of electoral conflicts, human rights and women's political participation, elements which correspond in all respects to the objectives of the EU’s Comprehensive Strategy with Africa, as a partnership for peace, security, governance and resilience between the two continents (Joint Communication of the European Commission, 9 May 2020) as well as to the priorities of the EU provided for in the European Parliament Resolution on a new Africa strategy of 25th March 2021.