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COVID-19 in Africa: How have young people responded?
The spread of COVID-19 in South Sudan continues to have an unprecedented impact on the health, economy, and social lives of citizens. It has placed added pressure on already limited services and exacerbated issues that the young country, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, has been struggling to address. Its full impact is yet hard to… Read more
Good governance is the lynchpin for African progress – Abdoulie Janneh
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s Executive Director and former United Nations Under-Secretary-General at the Economic Commission for Africa Abdoulie Janneh recently wrote an opinion piece on the role of good governance in addressing the climate crisis in the aftermath of COVID-19 in Africa. The article, published by Thomson Reuters Foundation,… Read more
Prize Committee member Horst Kohler on a chance for a new start for Africa and Europe
To ensure that we achieve both the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, there’s need for a “substantially new partnership” between Africa and Europe with political change and action on both sides, said Horst Köhler, former President of Germany and member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s Prize Committee at… Read more
The Elders call for urgent action to address multilateral failings exposed by COVID-19
As Elders, we call today on world leaders to urgently strengthen, defend, and realise the potential of the multilateral system. This is the fundamental requirement to end the current disarray in the global order, and tackle existential threats such as COVID-19, the climate crisis and nuclear conflict. We also call for their clear commitment… Read more
Mo Ibrahim: a stronger IIAG to assess governance in Africa
I set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) in 2006 with a key mission: to assess and strengthen governance and leadership in Africa. As a vital tool for this endeavour, the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) was conceived and built to provide a comprehensive dashboard of governance performance in African countries. We strongly believe that… Read more
Statement by the Foundation’s Board, Prize Committee and Prize Laureates on electoral tensions in Africa
Our continent is undergoing an unusually busy election time. There have already been too many reports of violence against peaceful demonstrators or detention of political opponents. Our democratic gains over the past two decades are being rolled back across too many of our countries. This is unacceptable. While the world is preoccupied with… Read more
Déclaration du Conseil d’administration de la Fondation Mo Ibrahim, du Comité d’attribution du Prix et des lauréats du Prix sur les tensions électorales en Afrique
Notre continent traverse une période électorale particulièrement chargée. On dénombre déjà trop de manifestations pacifiques réprimées dans la violence, trop d’incarcérations d’opposants politiques. Les progrès démocratiques accomplis depuis le début du siècle sont démantelés dans trop de pays africains. C’est inacceptable. Au moment où le… Read more
The IIAG’s in-depth review: a new framework and three new main features
The Ibrahim Index of African Governance was launched in 2007 as a quantifiable tool to accurately measure and monitor governance performance in African countries. As described by Mo Ibrahim in his blog last week, the Index has undergone an in-depth review since our last iteration in 2018. The aim of the review was to reflect the evolution of… Read more, Additional governance dimensions MIF defines public governance as the ‘basket’ of public goods and services that any 21st century citizen is entitled to receive from their government, and that any 21st century government is expected to deliver to its citizens. While this definition has remained unchanged over time, in the last decade the… Read more, Thanks to more data, 90% of IIAG indicators are now clustered Meanwhile, relevant data on Africa have slowly become more robust and available from being concerningly scarce some ten years ago, thanks to shared efforts and strong advocacy and resulting in a consequent strengthening of the IIAG. The 2020 IIAG includes more sources and more… Read more, It is worth noting that the methodology used to calculate IIAG scores, initially built with the Kennedy School of Governance at Harvard University, has remained unchanged. This has been thoroughly reviewed in search of better ways to calculate the IIAG the current methodology as the best possible to calculate a composite index like the IIAG.… Read more, The new IIAG dataset, the online and Excel data portals and the accompanying analytical report will be launched on 16 November, and will be freely available for access on our website. For the next two years, we will continue working on unpacking the findings of the IIAG across the full set of categories and sub-categories, as well as at country,… Read more
2020 Paris Peace Forum: Bounce back to a better world
The third edition of the Paris Peace Forum (PPF) is taking place from 11-13 November. Due to COVID-19, this year’s event is being held in a digital format. Over 60 heads of state and government, representatives from international organisations, and actors from all sectors of civil society are convening online to discuss responses and solutions to… Read more
