From a 2019 founding vision to a continent-wide policy actor — the African Renaissance Trust is built to challenge the ideological, structural and systemic barriers that hold Africa back.
African Renaissance was established in 2019 to respond to ideological, structural and systemic gaps in health, gender and socio-economic development.
We envision a continent where populations live healthy, empowered and dignified lives. We are invested in drumming Africa towards transformational development for all; and are positioned at the convergence of duty bearers and rights holders. We seek to bridge the distance between continental frameworks and the lived realities they are designed to change.
In 2021, African Renaissance was formally registered as a non-profit Trust.
African Renaissance is an continently‑anchored think tank, advisory and implementation partner that is focused on continental governance. We sit at the nexus of the AU, RECs, Member States and non‑state actors, ensuring that evidence, innovations and capital translate into decisions, budgets and implementation across Africa.
Under the AU Partnership Platform Memorandum of Understanding, African Renaissance Trust collaborates with all AU departments, directorates and key decision making organs. We work closely with Regional Economic Communities and specialized agencies, expanding and protecting the space where duty bearers, rights holders and partners converge to co‑create solutions. Our structural and systemic navigation role offers critical, investable insights that de‑risk and accelerate partner engagement.
Change starts where power sits.
Five reference points that anchor the institution's trajectory.
African Renaissance Trust is registered under Kenyan trust law, audited annually and governed by a Board of Trustees. The African Renaissance Advisory Panel is a high-trust group of senior African leaders, thinkers, experts and practitioners who accompany African Renaissance Trust on strategy, political navigation and quality control across its work with the AU, RECs and Member States. They provide discreet guidance to the trustees on where and how the organisation engages, help ensure that programmes remain grounded in African priorities and citizen experience, and open pathways to coalitions, institutions and constituencies that matter for system-level change.
Trust registered under the Trustees (Perpetual Succession) Act, Kenya, 2021. Long-horizon institutional stewardship by design.
Annual external audit and unqualified financial reporting. Donor-compliant tax status confirmed with the Kenya Revenue Authority.
Safeguarding, conflict of interest and anti-bribery policies in force across all engagements. Document library coming with the live site.
The methodology behind Connect · Inform · Activate — and how it plays out across our three pillars.
