The overall objective of the Data for Governance Alliance Project is to strengthen the implementation of the African Union African Governance Architecture’s democracy, governance and human rights agenda by:
Promoting data collection, collation, and access
Building skills in data use and data-based advocacy for citizens and CSOs
Facilitating more effective collaboration between African citizens and CSOs on the one hand, and African Governance Platform member institutions on the other
Consortium partners
Lead partner, Afrobarometer is a non-profit company limited by guarantee with headquarters in Ghana, is a pan-African, non-partisan survey research network that conducts public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy, and society. We are the world’s leading source of high-quality data on what Africans are thinking.
Central and West Africa partner, the Ghana Center for Democratic Development is an independent, not-for-profit research and advocacy think tank, working to advance democracy, good governance, and inclusive economic growth. CDD-Ghana works to complement the broader objectives of strengthening democratic governance, the principles of popular participation and the demand for public accountability. The Center harnesses the power of evidence-based research, ideas, partnerships to encourage dialogue, inform and influence public policy.
Our Southern Africa partner, The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) was launched in 2000 in the wake of the public hearings of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Today, the IJR works towards its broadened vision of building fair, inclusive, democratic and peaceful societies in Africa, and
increasingly further abroad, by designing relevant and carefully crafted interventions that combine
research, dialogue, capacity-building, advocacy, policy advice and implementation support. We
pursue this vision at the global, continental, regional and national levels.
Our East Africa partner, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi was established in 1965. The Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi, is the oldest out of 20 such institutes in the world. It is the premier multi-disciplinary and multi-purpose development research institute in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. IDS carry out full-time research on high-priority areas of social-economic development in Kenya, Africa and the world in general.
As a core partner, IDS provides overall direction and management to the project within the East African region. The institute takes primary responsibility for fundraising and for planning and coordinating programs of work on behalf of the network in the region.
Our law and policy digitisation and partner, Laws.Africa promotes free access to African law from accross the continent. Laws.Africa’s mission is to enable African governments to sustainably provide free access to reliable digital laws in a way that is user-friendly, accessible, educational and re-usable. This empowers individuals, communities, government, businesses and innovators in support of our vision of an Africa of good governance, democracy, respect for human rights, justice and the rule of law.
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