The Centre for Economic Governance and Accountability in Africa (CEGAA) was founded in 2006 in South Africa. Its governance structure is a Board of Trustees responsible for overall governance/oversight, which is supported by the organisation’s Senior Management Team responsible for daily operations of the business. The Director heads the programmes and operations of the organisation, and reports to the board, with the assistance of programme managers, coordinators and researchers. 

CEGAA is a Non-profit Organisation (NPO) that was founded to respond to the needs of African states and organisations for improved economic governance and accountability, through the advancement of skills and technical support in budget monitoring and expenditure tracking (BMET) of public funding in general, and health financing in particular. 

CEGAA’s main activities include situational analyses for informed programme development, BMET, community monitoring research and advocacy, National AIDS Spending Assessments (NASAs), costing, and capacity building for partners on all these areas. CEGAA has vast experience in BMET, having worked in East, West and Southern Africa, and has supported governments, development partners, international organisations and civil society partners in various places around the world. CEGAA is using its expertise to support its governmental and non-governmental partners to build capacity in financial planning, costing, expenditure management, and tracking and to support evidence generation to inform government resource mobilisation, allocation and utilisation, and to improve policy outcomes.