Leadership Missions
Where the simulation meets reality
A Leadership Mission takes a real African challenge and works it from evidence to decision to action.
Status
No mission has run yet. Federal Africa is in its founding phase, and the first missions begin in the next one. This page will list every mission, with its brief, its team and what it produced.
What a mission is
A real problem, a team from different States, a fixed time
A Leadership Mission is a structured, time-bound challenge on a real problem, taken on by a team drawn from different States. The team works through the model institutions: departments prepare, the Assembly debates, the councils advise, and the Court checks the outcome against the Charter's principles. What comes out is not only a decision on paper, but a plan that members can carry into the world.
How a mission runs
Six stages, from the brief to what was learned
Brief
The problem is defined with evidence, local knowledge and expert input.
Research
Teams gather data, listen to the people affected and study what has worked elsewhere.
Deliberate
Departments draft options, the Assembly debates them, the councils advise and the Court reviews them for fairness.
Decide
The model institutions adopt a resolution, a policy proposal or an action plan.
Act
Members publish what they produced, run pilots in their communities and share their proposals with partners and decision-makers.
Learn
Results are reviewed honestly, and what worked is shared with every State.
Mission themes
The problems missions will take on
Missions follow priorities Africans already share, as set out in Agenda 2063 and the African Continental Free Trade Area.
- Trade and small enterprise
- Jobs and skills for young people
- Climate, water and food security
- Health
- Peace, security and justice
- Free movement and mobility
- Digital Africa and trusted identity
- Culture, heritage and the creative economy
- Women's leadership and inclusion
What one could look like
Illustrative example · Not a real mission
Small traders at the border
- The problem
- Small cross-border traders, many of them women, lose time and money at border crossings to unclear rules, informal fees and long delays.
- Practise
- A team from six States takes the brief. A model department drafts a simplified regime for small consignments. The Assembly debates it. The Women's Council advises on how it would affect traders' safety and income. The Court reviews whether it treats every State fairly.
- Solve
- The team adopts a one-page traders' guide in plain language and a model proposal for simpler border procedures.
- Act
- Members in border towns translate the guide into local languages and run information sessions with traders. The team publishes its proposal and shares it with trade officials, traders' associations and forums working on the African Continental Free Trade Area.
What missions produce
Work that can be used outside the platform
Federal Africa offers this work openly. It never claims authority it does not have, and no institution is obliged to adopt any of it.
Policy brief
A short, evidence-based proposal on a specific problem.
Who it serves
Officials, legislators and regional bodies.
Model resolution
The decision adopted by the model institutions, with the debate behind it.
Who it serves
Members, educators and researchers.
Community project
A pilot, campaign or service run by members where they live.
Who it serves
Communities and local partners.
Research and data
Findings gathered during a mission, shared openly where possible.
Who it serves
Researchers, journalists and civil society.
New initiatives
Ventures, organisations and collaborations that grow out of a mission.
Who it serves
Entrepreneurs, funders and partners.
| Output | What it is | Who it serves |
|---|---|---|
| Policy brief | A short, evidence-based proposal on a specific problem. | Officials, legislators and regional bodies. |
| Model resolution | The decision adopted by the model institutions, with the debate behind it. | Members, educators and researchers. |
| Community project | A pilot, campaign or service run by members where they live. | Communities and local partners. |
| Research and data | Findings gathered during a mission, shared openly where possible. | Researchers, journalists and civil society. |
| New initiatives | Ventures, organisations and collaborations that grow out of a mission. | Entrepreneurs, funders and partners. |
Be there when the first mission opens
Mission teams are drawn from members in different States. Join now, take your place in your State, and you will be able to apply when the first briefs are published. Institutions with a real policy question can propose it as a mission brief.