Healthy, Empowered and Dignified Lives

AFRICAN RENAISSANCE TRUST, RE-IMAGINING TOMORROW

African Renaissance Trust envisions a continent where populations enjoy healthy, empowered, and dignified lives. We champion, advance, and drum up support for transformational development by shaping partnerships, policy, and practice to build a unified, prosperous, and thriving Africa.

About African Renaissance

We are built to challenge the drivers of inequality

African Renaissance was established in 2019 and registered as a Trust in 2021. We challenge ideological, structural, and systemic forces that sustain inequity and injustice across Africa and operate at the convergence of duty bearers, rights holders, policy, and practice. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with continent-wide reach, we convene decision-makers, technical experts, and active citizens around the policy choices that shape African lives – fostering transformative change through strategic engagement across regional, sub-regional, and national levels.

Three pillars. One mission

Gender Equality

Equality is not optional. We advance women's leadership, youth agency, and social inclusion as non-negotiable foundations of African development. Through the GEYSI approach (Gender Equality, Youth and Social Inclusion), we embed equality into the policies, budgets, and institutions that shape daily life.

Health Equity

Health is a right. We strengthen primary health care, unlock domestic health financing, and drive the domestication of continental commitments — from the Abuja Declaration to the Maputo Protocol — into country-level action that saves lives.

Socio-Economic Justice

Growth that leaves people behind is not development. We champion African leadership on debt sustainability, climate accountability, and social protection — positioning the continent to play a significant, authentic, and dignified role on the global stage, from the G20–Africa table to COP negotiations.

Change starts where power sits

Change comes from understanding what holds people back — and then shaping the policies, systems, and budgets that move them forward. We operate through a three-stage engagement architecture: Connect. Inform. Activate.
 
We connect the stakeholders who rarely meet – government decision-makers and grassroots evidence, civil society and continental frameworks, marginalised communities and the platforms where resources are allocated. We inform through decision-ready policy research, legal reviews, toolkits, frameworks and technical briefs shaped for the committees and ministerial desks where they will be read. We activate by converting evidence-based knowledge into institutional change – driving reform through AU and REC decision-making pipelines, supporting precedent-setting litigation, and equipping communities with the tools that they can use to sustain accountability long after the campaign cycles end.

Our work is anchored in Agenda 2063 – the continent’s blueprint for inclusive growth, driven by its own citizens.

Join the movement for Africa's renaissance

Partner with us to shape policy, build coalitions, and accelerate equitable development across the continent