Report on the Outcomes of the Conference

Africa is in the process of entering into a new era of constitutional development based on shared values and principles stated in the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance which were recently adopted, and the numerous pertinent Declarations and Resolutions adopted by the relevant meetings of the African Union.

All these legal instruments aim at promoting and consolidating participatory democracy and constitutional development in Africa through the adoption, implementation and the protection of  inclusive constitutional processes normally expected to contribute to the creation of a favourable climate for the establishment of the principle of responsibility of leaders to their people, through regular transparent elections, free, sincere and just in a context of multiparty politics and the development of a system of checks and balances based on a true separation of executive, legislative and judicial powers.