The project started with the first phase of 12 months. Particularly, Particularly, the in the first period of its implementation achieved the following results:

• The revival of the AAEA was key to disseminating a common vision and sharing best practices in conducting integer elections across the continent. After the support to the relaunch of its Executive Committee in May in Accra, the African Union supported the holding of its General Assembly in November 2022, with the organization of the 7th annual continental forum of EMBs on “Building resilience of the EMBs to safeguard Democracy in Africa.” The EMBs forum was centered on the complex milieu of election management and its implication for the future of electoral democracy; safeguarding institutional longevity of EMBs; promoting gender in EMB leadership; overcoming economic challenges through sustainable financing of EMBs and addressing threats to electoral security and cyber-security to safeguard electoral integrity in Africa.
• The African Union conducted two Needs Assessment Missions in the context of the Transitions in the Guinean Republic and in Burkina Faso. These two missions identified areas of support that were needed in the two States to succeed in their transition and in the holding of elections, helping the AU design an ad hoc technical assistance project, which contributed to building their capacities to run free, fair, credible, inclusive, violent-free, and acceptable elections in the context of a post-coup transition.

• The project supported the African Union in implementing the long-term strategy: Roadmap in the promotion of the African Charter on Democracy, Election, and Governance through education institutions. The activity provided the occasion to review and adopt the roadmap as well as the training material tools that were disseminated through Pilot Projects in specific countries covering specific thematic areas. It is the “ACDEG School Curriculum Project” that formed part of this effort aiming to entrench the culture of democracy, good governance, and respect for the rule of law and human rights within the future generation in line with the African Charter on Democracy, Elections, and Governance, and as part of the implementation of the African Union Agenda 2063.

• Supported the African Union in the implementation of the following workshops:  the workshop on the "African Union guidelines on Constitutional Amendments" and the 6th edition of the African Transnational Justice Forum titled "The state of transnational justice in Africa: Transnational Justice and Social Capital in Africa"