This policy brief highlights the crucial significance of a broader engagement of civil society, academia, members of the technical community and governments of States in the Global South, especially in Africa, who are currently grappling with the effects of problematic cybercrimes legislations. The brief also includes five key recommendations to stakeholders which include, cooperation for robust and diverse outcomes, innovation around consultative process to allow for meaningful engagement with stakeholders, consideration of international human rights in the formulation of the substantive treaty, cooperation for capacity building and mutual learning and the need to remove barriers to broad participation by actors from Africa and the rest of the global south.