Promise Tracker is a civic tech initiative dedicated to injecting honesty, transparency, and data-driven accountability into public leadership. Developed by PesaCheck under the umbrella of Code for Africa (CfA), our platform bridges the gap between political rhetoric and real-world results by systematically tracking campaign pledges, policy commitments, and government promises across the continent.
Political candidate and government officials often make sweeping commitments to win elections, secure contracts, or pass policies—only for those promises to fade from public memory once in office. We launched Promise Tracker to break this cycle.
Citizens, journalists, and civil society watchdogs deserve more than political rhetoric; they deserve clear proof, visible progress updates, and verifiable facts. Our team of civic technologists, researchers, and fact-checkers works to ensure that public pledges remain transparent, measurable, and unalterable over time.
To keep our monitoring transparent and defensible, we combine modern technology with expert human verification:
Every status, whether a promise is Kept, In Progress, or Broken, is backed by an undeniable paper trail.
As an openAFRICA project, we believe that digital public infrastructure belongs to the public. Transparency isn't just our mission—it is how we build our software.
