Turn signatures into real change.
Ardent petitions are built for outcomes, not noise. Name the person who can actually act, gather signatures from across Africa, and keep every supporter in the loop until the change lands.
Name the exact decision-maker who can act on your ask
Anyone can sign, no account required
Every signer hears back when your campaign moves
Everything a serious petition needs
Not a signature counter, but a full advocacy toolkit that helps you aim your campaign, grow it, and prove it worked.
Target the right person
A petition needs a decision-maker with the power to say yes. Our AI suggests the minister, MP, agency, or company most likely to be able to act, so your pressure lands where it counts.
Sign in seconds
Supporters sign without creating an account. People who just donated, signed, or attended an event can add a verified signature. Guests are identified by a privacy-safe hash, never a stored raw email.
Keep every signer informed
Post an update and everyone who signed is notified automatically. Momentum compounds when your supporters know their name mattered and the fight is still on.
Official responses & deliveries
Record the response you get from your target and log the moment you formally deliver the petition, turning a list of names into a documented, accountable exchange.
Backed by organisations
Verified NGOs and companies can co-sponsor your petition. A 'Backed by organisations' endorsement adds institutional weight that a lone campaign can rarely muster.
Victories, made public
When a petition wins, it becomes part of the public victories wall: a growing, verifiable record that advocacy on Ardent produces real results.
Your momentum, anywhere
Show a live signature counter for your petition on any website with a copy-paste widget or our official WordPress plugin. It ticks up as new people sign, and the same public momentum is available through our API.
A petition nobody can act on is a mailing list with a headline
Most petition tools ask for a title and a target number. Neither of those decides anything. What decides something is who it is addressed to, and what you are actually asking them to do.
As many decision makers as the thing really has
A road belongs to an assembly, a ministry and a contractor at the same time, so a petition can name all of them, each with their title and the body they work for. If you addressed it to the wrong person you can correct it after publishing, which matters because you usually find out who actually holds the decision only once people start reading.
Named individuals, offices, or both
Correctable at any time, including after signatures arrive
Each one is shown to signers, so nobody signs into a void
Say what winning looks like
A concrete outcome rather than a sentiment. It is the difference between "something must be done about the clinic" and "reopen the maternity ward at Nsawam Government Hospital". The specific one is the one a decision maker can say yes to, and the one you can later prove was won.
Written before you publish, and shown on the petition
What victory is measured against later
Publish as yourself or as your organisation
If you hold a seat in an NGO or a company you can publish under its name, with its branding and its verification, using the same switcher the rest of the dashboard uses. Other organisations can then add their names as co-sponsors, which is how a local petition becomes a coalition without anybody handing over control of it.
The organisation stays the author, not the person who typed it
Co-sponsors shown as backed by organisations
Filed under a cause, so it reaches past your own contacts
Choose what the petition is about from a shared list, and people following that cause hear about it even if they have never heard of you. A petition seen only by the people you already know is a petition that stops at the edge of your phone contacts.
One shared taxonomy across the whole platform
Always labelled with why it reached somebody
From idea to impact in four steps
01
Write your petition
State the change you want, tell the story behind it, and set a signature goal.
02
Name the decision-maker
Choose the official or organisation with the power to act. The AI suggests the best target for your cause.
03
Rally signatures
Share your link. Anyone across your chosen region can add their name in seconds and share it onward.
04
Deliver & report back
Send it to your target, record their official response, update every signer, and mark your victory.
Keeping the people who signed
Nearly every petition platform ends at the signature. The signature is where the work starts.
Updates that reach the people who signed
Write one and it appears on the petition, reaches everyone following it, and can be emailed to your signers. This is the whole reason somebody gave you their name: they want to know what happened next, and hearing nothing teaches them not to sign the next one.
Posted from your dashboard or your phone
Reaches followers as a card carrying the live signature count
Milestones people can watch you pass
Crossing 100, 500, 1,000 and upward is announced once each, and you can set your own stages beyond that. Momentum is the argument: a decision maker reading "4,300 people in this district" is reading something different from "a petition exists".
Announced once, never repeatedly
Your own stages, in addition to the automatic ones
When somebody in power replies
An official response can be recorded against the petition and verified before it is shown, so the page carries what was actually said rather than a claim about it. Signers are told when one arrives.
Verified before publication
Shown on the petition permanently
Delivery, and declaring victory
When you hand the signatures over, record how, to whom and when, and it is stamped onto a public timeline that signers can read. Victory is declared only when a real change happens, and it is celebrated on the petition and in the victories gallery rather than quietly closing the page.
A public delivery timeline, not a private note
Recordable from your phone, which is where you will be standing
Won petitions stay readable rather than disappearing
Advocacy that's free, honest, and about people, not payments.
A petition on Ardent moves no money. It is a public, verifiable call for change, designed so that it can be taken seriously by the people it is addressed to.
Petitions never take a payment. Signing is always free, for everyone.
Every signature is a real, counted person. Guests sign with a privacy-safe hash, never a stored raw email.
You choose the reach: Ghana only, selected countries, or all of Africa (set by platform policy).
Signers own the follow-through, notified on progress and able to see your official responses and deliveries.
The AI only suggests a decision-maker. You always choose who your petition targets.
NGOs and companies can co-sponsor, but the petition stays yours: an endorsement, never a takeover.
Everything in Petitions
What is built and switched on, grouped by what you would be trying to do.
Writing it
- Many decision makers, each with a title and organisation
- A stated outcome, so victory means something later
- Publish as yourself or as an organisation you hold a seat in
- A cause from the shared taxonomy
- Country, region and district targeting
- Cover image, including one you generate on the page
- A description with real formatting
- Save as a draft and finish later
Running it
- Edit the petition after publishing
- Correct who it is addressed to at any time
- Post updates
- Set your own milestones
- Add teammates and give them roles
- Apply for a verified cause badge
- See where signatures are coming from
For the people who sign
- Sign in one step, with or without an account
- Choose whether your name is shown
- Leave a comment with your signature
- Follow the petition without signing it
- Every petition you have signed, in one place
- Notifications when it moves, switchable per topic
Proof it worked
- Record a delivery: how, to whom, and when
- A public delivery timeline signers can read
- Verified responses from decision makers
- Declare victory when the change is real
- A victories gallery that keeps won petitions readable
Reach
- Announced to followers when published
- Signature milestones announced once each
- Public comments, threaded with the rest of the platform
- Reactions
- Short links with click tracking
- Share cards for WhatsApp, X, Facebook and LinkedIn
- Structured data, so search engines read it properly
On your phone
- Create a petition, decision makers and all
- Post updates
- Record a delivery
- Manage your team
- Everything you have signed
Questions, answered
A signature count on its own rarely moves anyone. Ardent pairs your signatures with the specific decision-maker who can act, notifies every signer as the campaign progresses, and gives you a place to record the official response and the delivery. It is built to produce an accountable outcome, not just a number.
When you create a petition you name who it is addressed to. If you are unsure, the AI suggests the minister, MP, agency, or company most likely to have the authority to act on your specific ask. You always make the final choice, and you can adjust the target as the campaign evolves.
No. Anyone can sign as a guest in seconds. Guests are counted by a privacy-safe hash rather than a stored email, so a signature is real without exposing who signed. Signed-in supporters additionally get a record of what they backed and richer update notifications.
Nothing closes automatically. The goal is momentum, not a finish line. You formally deliver the petition to your target, log the official response you receive, keep every signer updated, and mark the petition a victory once the change actually lands. Completed wins appear on the public victories wall.
Yes. Verified NGOs and companies can co-sponsor, adding a 'Backed by organisations' endorsement that lends institutional weight. Co-sponsorship is support, not control: the petition, its target, and its story stay entirely yours.
Reach is governed by platform policy, from Ghana only to selected countries to all of Africa, so campaigns stay relevant and credible. Money never enters the picture: starting a petition and signing one are always free.
Signing is free, starting one is free, and nothing here asks for money
Petitions on Ardent carry no fee of any kind. There is no charge to publish, no charge to sign, no charge to post an update or record a delivery, and no paid tier that puts your petition above somebody else's. Advocacy that only works if you can afford it is not advocacy.
No fee to publish, sign, or run a petition
No promoted placement, and no way to buy one
Signing without an account is allowed, and your email is never sold or passed on
Charitable giving on Ardent goes to Ardent Africa Foundation causes, which are zero fee
You can sign under a display name and keep your full name off the page
Start a petition that can't be ignored.
Give your cause a target, a story, and a crowd. Ardent handles the signatures, the updates, and the receipts, so you can focus on the change.