The Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund (ATJLF) is a 501(c)(3) organization with the ultimate aim of rebuilding communities and promoting survivor agency in transitional societies. The ATJLF is a registered public charity under the laws of Ghana, with registration number DSW/9529. It is also company limited by guarantee and registered with the Registrar General’s Department in Ghana under the Company’s Act 1963 (ACT 179), with registration number CG059902020.

We are based in Accra, Ghana. We support community-based, survivor-led transitional justice projects and processes in Cote D’Ivoire, The Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, North-eastern Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. We support smaller organisations and groups to deliver transformative and impactful interventions in transitional justice processes in Africa, starting with West Africa.

The ATJLF supports locally relevant and contextually appropriate transitional justice interventions in the countries of focus for the following reasons:

• To rethinking and remodeling transitional justice approaches in the sub-region
• To create positive changes in people’s lives (mainly survivors of conflicts and brutal dictatorships)
• To consolidate existing gains in transitional justice initiatives in West Africa and beyond, through strategic partnerships with continental and sub-regional intergovernmental institutions
• To serve as a route for supporting skills development and knowledge management initiatives of civil society, local and national government authorities and regional institutions, and
• To create lasting positive impacts at country, regional and continental level.

We support African-centered approaches to transitional justice issues and fund context-driven initiatives that empower civil society and communities to engage with governments and local authorities to address wrongs of the past, promote justice for victims affected by conflicts and violence, and advance sustainable peace and good governance in the continent.

Our mission is to support civil society and victim or survivor-led initiatives to undertake transformative transitional justice approaches in West Africa; enhance civil society and state-led interventions to advance participatory and locally defined transitional justice projects in the selected countries; collaborate with regional and continental bodies to advance Afro-centric TJ frameworks and contribute to changing and promoting public and media discourses that upend specific false narratives.

Our goal is to rebuild communities and (re) activate survivor agency in transitional justice processes in West Africa