---
title: Governance Hub Africa
type: ngo
status: active
country: KE
website: https://governancehubafrica.org
logo: /assets/org-logos/governance-hub-africa.png
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-09
  form: https://governancehubafrica.org/contact
  source: https://governancehubafrica.org
summary: A non-partisan regional platform working at the intersection of democratic
  governance, elections, digital innovation, and policy reform across all 55 AU member
  states — active through 2026 with programmes on civic empowerment, electoral integrity,
  and digital democracy.
concepts:
- democracy
- democracy-tools
- e-government
location:
  latitude: -1.2921
  longitude: 36.8219
  name: Nairobi, Kenya
  precision: city
events:
- date: '2018-01-01'
  title: Founded in Nairobi as a pan-African platform for democratic governance across
    55 AU member states
  url: https://governancehubafrica.org/about
  note: 'Unquotable as of this check: the live page is a JS-rendered SPA shell (a
    plain fetch returns ~20 chars of visible text, no real content), and no Wayback
    Machine snapshot of this specific /about URL exists. Web search turned up nothing
    beyond the org''s own homepage confirming founding details. Left as proof_warning
    rather than guessed at; worth retrying with a headless-browser fetch (see util/check_contact_deep.py
    for the established pattern) or once the live page changes.'
  proof_level: medium
  url_checked: '2026-08-12'
  notable: true
  proof_warning: true
activity:
  rss:
    checked: 2026-08-17
    note: No feed found
last_checked: '2026-08-09'
---

Governance Hub Africa is a Nairobi-based regional platform working on democratic governance across the 55 member states of the African Union. It operates at the intersection of elections, digital innovation, policy advisory, and institutional reform — treating these not as separate domains but as interconnected elements of a governance system.

Programmatic work spans civic empowerment, electoral integrity, digital democracy, and governance monitoring. Recent activity includes engagement with Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and policy work on digital governance frameworks. The organisation positions itself as non-partisan and evidence-driven, working with both state institutions and civil society actors.

In the Democracy Landscape's terms, Governance Hub Africa falls in the "governance system design and accountability" category — not a deliberative practitioner, but an institutional actor working on the structural conditions that make democratic governance possible and accountable. Its pan-African scope (55 countries) fills a scale gap in the current landscape: most African entries to date are country-specific, and a continent-wide governance platform adds breadth that single-country entries cannot provide.

## Links

- Website: [governancehubafrica.org](https://governancehubafrica.org)

## See also

- [Democracy](../concepts/democracy.md)
- [Democracy Tools](../concepts/democracy-tools.md)
- [AfricTivistes](africtivistes.md)
- [Civic Tech Innovation Network](ctin.md)