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The Electoral Accountability Academy. Training Today's Youth. Protecting Tomorrow's Democracy.

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What the dashboard shows every volunteer

Each trainee sees their own standing at a glance, from registration through certification and state assignment.

Registration status

Verified / Pending

Training status

Not started / In progress / Completed

Courses completed

e.g. 2 of 9

Assessment score

Per module and overall

Certification status

Pending / Eligible / Issued

Assigned state

State / LGA

The personal training dashboard opens to admitted guards in Phase 2.

The Academy

Discipline before deployment

An untrained observer with a camera is a liability to the process and a risk to themselves. Training exists so that every YEGO observation is lawful, neutral, accurately recorded and safe to carry out.

The Academy is the point at which YEGO's institutional claims are tested. The methodology sets the standard; the modules teach it, one subject at a time, and each is scored separately so that a weakness in one area cannot be hidden behind strength in another.

Training is delivered to admitted cohorts only. Admission follows verification of the applicant's identity and location by authorised officers. An application alone confers no standing.

A YEGO cohort training session with a facilitator and flip chart — Illustrative photograph of YEGO training.

Curriculum

9 modules, each assessed on its own

A guard is certified only when every required module has been passed. The pass mark is not uniform: the standard is set where the risk is.

#	Module	What it covers	Duration	Pass mark
1	Citizens observation: role and mandate	What a citizen observer is, what YEGO is not, and the limits of the role.	25 min	70%
2	Code of conduct and neutrality	Non-partisanship in practice: dress, speech, conduct and social media.	20 min	80%
3	Electoral law and observer standards	The legal framework, INEC regulations and recognised observer standards.	30 min	70%
4	Polling unit procedure	Opening, accreditation, voting, counting and collation, step by step.	30 min	75%
5	Incident reporting and evidence	What to record, what not to touch, and how evidence is handled.	25 min	75%
6	Early warning and personal safety	Recognising risk signals, escalation channels, and staying safe.	25 min	80%
7	ERART platform practical	Submitting, tracking and verifying reports in the digital tool.	20 min	70%
8	Electoral violence prevention	Preventing and de-escalating violence, and the community early-warning role.	30 min	75%
9	Field preparedness and practical assessment	Field-readiness checks, role assignment and the practical assessment.	30 min	80%
	9 modules · all required	Taught time, excluding assessment	235 min	3h 55m

Curriculum awaiting confirmationThe review build defined nine modules while some public material describes seven. YEGO will confirm the final curriculum, module weights and retake rule before training opens.

Certification

What certification requires

Certification is a claim YEGO makes about a person on the strength of a record. It is therefore granted only against the full standard, never in part.

Modules required

All must be passed

80%

Highest pass mark

Code of conduct and neutrality

Every required module passed

There is no partial certification and no provisional standing. Election-day conduct cannot be assembled from the parts of the syllabus a guard happened to complete.

Why the code of conduct carries the highest pass mark

Neutrality is the qualification that makes every other skill usable. An observer who is accurate but partial discredits their own record and the organisation's. Breaches after certification are handled through the disciplinary process set out in the observer methodology.

Certification is earned, not givenAttendance does not confer standing, and neither does seniority. The assessment record, not the cohort list, determines who is certified.

Training and certification process

Eight steps, in order

The Academy's output is a certified guard who can be assigned to a mapped polling unit and trusted with what they record there.

See the full lifecycle

1RegisterThe volunteer completes the YEGO application form.
2ScreeningYEGO reviews the application and verifies identity and eligibility against its published requirements.
3EnrolmentApproved applicants receive access to the training centre.
4TrainingVolunteers complete the required modules.
5AssessmentEach volunteer takes quizzes and a final assessment.
6CertificationVolunteers who meet the required standards receive a YEGO training certificate.
7Deployment readinessAdditional briefing, role assignment and field-readiness checks for the proposed responsibilities.
8CoordinationTrained volunteers are linked to the relevant YEGO state and local coordination structures.