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No country, no future
The bleak plight of stateless children in South Africa The Bill of Rights states that every child has the right to a name and a nationality from birth and that the child’s best interests are of...
Science isn’t enough to prevent disaster: the case of the desert locust plague in East Africa
East Africa is experiencing the worst desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) outbreak in decades. The outbreak began in early 2019 and science isn’t enough to save the livelihoods and ensure the food...
A clear and present threat
Climate change: perceptions and experiences Although nearly 60% of Africans are aware of climate change, some of the continent’s most influential countries lag behind in widespread awareness Across...
Rethinking Public Healthcare Systems In Africa: a Covid-19 reflection
‘The right to life’ is fundamental; an imprescriptible right inherent to all human beings. The Equity and Human Rights Commission states that governments should take appropriate measures to...
A herbal approach to what ails us
Traditional medicine is a valid healthcare alternative in African communities if regulated The use of traditional medicine and its perceived negative impact has raised several concerns, and given...
Audit Performance & Service Delivery at Local Government
Join us on 18th June with the Auditor General to discuss the GGA Audit Performance and Service Delivery study. RSVP: gail@gga.org
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Governance Insights and Analytics
Our governance insights and analytics (GIA) team is the primary custodian of the Africa Digital Databank (ADD). The ADD regularly ingests new data sources through our proprietary API tool. Our GIA team ensures the optimal functionality of the ADD. Driven by the ADD, we are also the engine room for building GGA’s monthly Intelligence Reports. These reports provide key insights for private sector decision-makers into Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance across the continent and serve as a foundation for our advisory arm.
Furthermore, we provide research design and methodological support, along with insights and analytics to the other three research streams, which equips those teams to produce high-quality research products. There is a vital feedback loop between the research streams and the GIA team, in that we not only provide insights and analytics to those streams but produce graphics and relevant animations to drive our audience’s attention to the key governance matters of the day. This ensures that the work produced by the research teams does not gather cyber-dust but rather gains maximum exposure, appropriately targeted at the stakeholders we are trying to influence.
Finally, the GIA team is responsible for managing our Governance Coefficient product, which evaluates the relationship between two relatively independent governance variables – government effectiveness and citizen power. We show that, notwithstanding a few exceptions, countries that perform relatively well on these two scores tend to enjoy higher GDP per capita over time.
