We are pleased to announce that we have completed the 8th round of the Africa Integrity Indicators (AII) project. The full dataset is available on our AII site for you to explore and download (in Excel and CSV format). The Africa Integrity Indicators project is an annual data collection exercise—undertaken in partnership with the Mo…
Governance matters. The norms and rules that shape social relationships, including those between people and their governments, and the extent to which those rules are broadly accepted and followed within a society, play an important role in determining the prospects for social well-being, whether that is measured in terms of economic growth, social justice, access…
Background/context With the outbreak of Covid-19, many governments’ health and basic service delivery systems have already been placed under considerable strain and across Africa, fragile health and economic systems are likely to face further planning and budgeting challenges now and in the aftermath of the pandemic. As a result, international financial institutions, private foundations, and…
This week has been a tumultuous week in the United States. The tragic killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25—the latest in a long line of victims of police brutality—laid bare, yet again, the issues of violence, oppression and institutional racism that scar this country and many others, and which too many of…
Unlike its neighbors in West Africa, Cote d’Ivoire was remarkably able to completely stave off the 2014 Ebola pandemic through a strong response rooted in factual scientific information and a strong health care system/campaigns/networks. So far, it has done the same to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, but now an unraveling political crisis threatens to completely…
Originally published on GI-ACE The COVID-19 pandemic continues to extend around the globe and has now reached our partner countries in East Africa, including Tanzania. It is still too early to say what will be the ultimate impact of the health emergency on our research project and for now our biggest priority is to ensure…
