Peer Learning Mission to Ghana 2024

The Pro-Electoral Integrity Project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in collaboration with the Association of African Election Authorities (AAEA) and the African Union (AU), participated in a peer learning mission for Ghana’s General Elections on December 7, 2024. This initiative aims to reinforce election integrity, peer learning, and the professionalization of Election Management Bodies (EMBs) across Africa. The mission brought together a group of Presidents, Commissioners and senior staff from the Electoral Commission from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia Gabon, Malawi, Togo and Zimbabwe allowing them to share, comper and learn from eachother electoral systems.

In this context Jean Mensa, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission Ghana and President of AAEA in collaboration with the African Union and with the support of ECES, also invited 8 Chairwomen opening to other women senior electoral administrators in Africa to carry out a peer review-solidarity mission for the Ghana election of the 7th of December which also allowed them to work proactively and collaboratively to share their comparative experiences at the Electoral Commission of Ghana.

The project will fund and contribute as well to the 2025 Continental Forum and other six of these solidarity-peer review mission following the one already supported in Namibia last week and this one in Ghana.