Code for Africa
Parent networkPesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, the continent's largest network of civic technology and data journalism labs, operating in more than 20 countries.
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Our Ecosystem
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PesaCheck does more than publish fact-checks. We help build the infrastructure that African fact-checking depends on — convening networks, training newsrooms, and sharing tooling and data with peers across the continent. These are the alliances and networks we belong to.
Research & investigation
ANCIR
Sister initiativeThe African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting, whose iLAB forensics team supports PesaCheck investigations with data, OSINT and network analysis.
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Alliance memberPesaCheck collaborates with ARIA partners — researchers, newsrooms and civic technologists — on cross-border responses to coordinated disinformation.
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AFCA
Alliance memberPesaCheck works alongside AFCA members to counter mis- and disinformation across the continent's language and border lines.
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Network memberPesaCheck takes part in the Africa Facts network of fact-checking organisations, sharing verification methods and coordinating with peers on claims that cross borders.
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Verified signatoryPesaCheck is a verified signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network's Code of Principles, and is reassessed annually against its standards for non-partisanship, transparency of sources and funding, and open corrections.
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We convene
We bring fact-checkers together across borders and languages — coordinating on claims that travel, and agreeing shared standards for how they are checked.
We build tools
Our open toolkits — from PromiseTracker to DebunkBot — are built for the whole ecosystem to use, not just our own newsroom.
We train
We help watchdog media, NGOs and universities establish their own standalone fact-check desks, and train a new generation of civic watchdogs.