One charter, two pathways.

APEN Pathways is a digital campus that carries the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) to both ends of a learner’s journey: the preschool classroom and the university seminar.

Preschool

Teacher training for early childhood educators

APEN Portal A

Primary

African Union ACDEG materials, adopted in Maputo, December 2023

AU programme

Secondary

Being piloted in Guinea-Bissau and Côte d’Ivoire

AU programme

University

Two-semester governance programme and civil service training

APEN Portal B

Choose your portal

Both programmes share one research archive and one AI-human teaching model: the AI handles 70% of preparation and practice, and human mentors lead the 30% that needs a person in the room.

Preschool children queue to cast paper ballots in a classroom ballot box while their teacher helps

ACDEG Preschool: ECE & ECD teacher training

For preschool teachers and early childhood practitioners working with children aged 3 to 6, especially women educators in rural communities.

4foundational modules, from feelings and phonics to classroom elections
70/30AI lesson planning with human master mentors
50rural preschool centres in the proposed pilot

Enter the preschool portal

ACDEG Tertiary: governance programme

For university students, civil servants, electoral officers and civil society practitioners who will put the charter to work.

2semesters covering all six core ACDEG clusters
3AI simulation commands: /acdeg-audit /acdeg-brief /acdeg-watchdog
1verified digital governance portfolio per graduate

Enter the tertiary portal

Open-access research behind the campus

Every curriculum, protocol and policy study published by our faculty on Zenodo, free to read and cite. The same works feed the AI mentors in both portals, so answers are grounded in published scholarship.

Browse the research archive

“APEN Pathways is an independent, mission-driven commitment to transforming human capital development, tackling learning poverty, and strengthening institutional governance across Africa.” Umang M. Mostapha (PhD), Chief Executive Officer, APEN Pathways

We work with universities, ministries, preschool networks and funders who want to pilot either programme. Academic collaborators include Prof. Androga Said, a long-standing champion of early childhood education in Africa.

Talk to us about a pilot

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