African Monitor is an organisation that monitors for evidence-based advocacy. Advocacy is therefore our core area of focus whilst all the other programmes are aimed at feeding into our advocacy work.
Our target audience
 African Monitor targets African governments, their development institutions and their donor partners to promote policy, approach and practice change. AM may work with and through other Read on...

One of the African Monitor’s programmes is the Grassroots Focus Index (GFI). It is a pilot[1] effort by African Monitor that seeks to generate an index that assesses and determines the extent of grassroots prioritization in development. The grassroots are broadly defined as the poor and marginalized groups whose voices are too disparate to be heard by policy makers. The index and overall GFI methodology is expected to provide a useful advocacy tool for promoting grassroots prioritization. Read on...

The African Monitor (AM) has set as its core objective monitoring of development funding commitments by African governments and its development partners, and assess the utilization of the funds towards grassroots development. The Development Support Monitor (DSM) is designed to enhance accountability through providing information on commitments and delivery of development support by African Governments and Read on...

Constituency building for advocacy
Being an African voice for Africa’s development, African Monitor has identified the grassroots communities as the most marginalized and vulnerable population group in Africa.  African Monitor has been building capacity of grassroots communities in several African countries and has also built a constituency base for advocacy, focusing mainly on Read On...

African Monitor continues to work towards the realization of the priorities of the grassroots communities in Africa. Under the theme, “Unlocking the African Moment”, part of our work involves communication and media relations. In a 24/7 world like the one we live in, communication lies at the core of success for all enterprises; be they non-profit or business –  and the African Monitor is no exception. Read On...