About ACFIM
Who is ACFIM?
The Alliance for Finance Monitoring (ACFIM) is an independent and non-partisan Pan-African governance, accountability, and policy organisation dedicated to advancing transparency, integrity, and accountability in the financial systems that shape democracy, governance, and development outcomes across Africa.
Founded in Uganda and now operating through a continental platform headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, ACFIM has emerged as one of the leading African voices on the relationship between money, power, and governance. The organisation pioneered some of Africa’s earliest civil society initiatives on campaign finance monitoring, and has since evolved its work toward addressing the broader challenge of the financialisation of politics – a structural condition in which access to money, rather than popular mandate, determines who can seek and hold political office. ACFIM offers policy solutions to the growing influence of financial flows (licit and illicit), economic actors and interests over political processes, public institutions, and democratic outcomes.
ACFIM works with civil society organisations, election observation groups, researchers, policymakers, anti-corruption institutions, media actors, regional governance bodies, and international foundations in a continental Community of Practice (CoP) on money in politics, with a view to strengthening political finance transparency, democratic accountability, and citizen oversight.
Building on the significant global response to the anonymous, opaque and illicit money in politics, which came in December 2025 when the 11th Conference of State Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption adopted Resolution 11/7 on political finance transparency, ACFIM and other likeminded CSOs in Africa are working in partnership with the African Union Advisory Board Against Corruption (AUABC) on the development of a continental Model Law on Political Finance Transparency to give the resolution practical force across Member States.
Our Vision
An African society whose leaders emerge from political processes that are inclusive, transparent and accountable.
Mission
To promote and strengthen political integrity by fostering inclusiveness, transparency and accountability in financing politics and public institutions for sustainable democracy and development in Africa. We do this through knowledge generation, civic engagement and formulating policy solutions.
Our Five Golden Values
- Ubuntu
- Integrity
- Excellence
- Non-discrimination
- Transparency & Accountability
Strategic Goal
To contribute to the transformation of democratic governance in Africa by countering money-politics and advancing transparent, accountable, and inclusive financial systems that safeguard political integrity, strengthen public institutions, promote fair markets, and improve the quality of life of African citizens.
ACFIM aspires to become Africa’s leading continental platform and trusted thought leader on the financialisation of politics—generating evidence, shaping policy, building institutional capacity, and mobilising collective action to ensure that political power, public resources, and development opportunities are driven by the public interest rather than financial power.
Through this work, ACFIM seeks to promote integrity in the financial systems that shape democracy with a view to reversing democratic backsliding, strengthen the democracy–development nexus, and support a more just, prosperous, and resilient Africa.
