Charter.africa is an initiative led by a consortium of six organisations that use civic tech to boost citizen engagement with the African Union’s Charter on Democracy, Elections, and Governance (ACDEG). The project aims to strengthen participatory democratic governance systems in African Union member states through the African Governance Architecture (AGA). It involves empowering civic initiatives in eleven target countries to use civic technologies and data-driven solutions to amplify citizen voices at the continental level, promote democratic governance, and support civic engagement with the AGA and the African Union (AU) The Charter Project Africa is a multi-stakeholder initiative involving organisations such as the European Partnership for Democracy (lead), Africtivistes, Code for Africa, Democracy Works Foundation (DWF), Goree Institute, and ECDPM. The project focuses on using digital democracy technologies and includes activities such as training citizen watchdogs to use open source tools, organising story sprints, and providing fellowships to support grantee organisations with external expertise The focal countries for the project are Botswana, Benin, Cabo Verde, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia. The Charter Project Africa has been supporting national and continental civil society-led efforts to promote ACDEG through the development and use of civic tech tools, with a focus on youth and women participation in initiatives. The institutional web and mobile platform, known as the Virtual Evidence Platform, documenting initiatives and activities of the consortium was developed by Code for Africa (CfA), which launched in two phases concluding in August 2023. The VEP is a repository of open data about ACDEG indicators and related demographic and political economy contextual data, along with a catalogue of reusable open source software solutions for digital democracy activities.