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2025 Ibrahim Forum theme
The 2025 Ibrahim Forum, held on Day 2 of the Ibrahim Governance Weekend, will focus on the theme "Leveraging Africa’s Resources to Close the Finance Gap”. This year’s discussions will build on the findings of the 2024 Forum Report, Financing Africa: where is the money?, this time putting the spotlight on the critical role of Africa’s… Read more
New Research Brief on Africa’s key climate outcomes from recent COPs
Our latest Research Brief, Latest COPs on climate change, desertification, and biodiversity - key outcomes for Africa (2024-25) is available to download. The brief provides an overview of the latest developments at major Conferences of the Parties (COPs) and their implications for the African continent.One of the central topics covered… Read more
Applications are now open for the Mo Ibrahim Foundation Fellowship at Chatham House
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation/Chatham House Fellowship is now accepting applications. This scholarship is aimed at early-to-mid-career professionals and offers a unique opportunity to work on a self-directed research project for ten months. Fellows will participate in a leadership program and engage with the core activities of the Institute, all while… Read more
Regional Integration in Africa: 2024 IIAG overview
On 12-18 March 2025, the 57th session of the Economic Commission for Africa: Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development will be held in Addis Ababa. The session will explore the topic of “Advancing the implementation of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area: proposing transformative… Read more, Over the 2014-2023 period, the Regional Integration indicator improved by +4.4 points. This places it as the 21st most improved indicator out of the 52 other indicators which also improved at the Africa average level.12 countries reported double-digit improvements over the decade. Led by Ethiopia (+33.8), Benin (+24.7) and Ghana (+20.2). All three… Read more, Progress at the indicator level was driven by improvements in the underlying sub-indicators of Regional Travel Integration (+7.6) and Government Development of Regional Integration (+7.1). Concerningly, the sub-indicator, Regional Trade Integration declined by -1.2 points. This highlights the importance of the UNECA session on the AfCFTA… Read more, Except for the EAC, whose small overall deterioration is driven by massive declines in Uganda and Kenya (-17.8 and -16.6, respectively), African RECs have seen improvements in Regional Integration over the last decade, spearheaded by ECOWAS (+11.0, excluding currently suspended or withdrawn countries). In 2023, four RECs performed above the… Read more
Women's Equality: 2024 IIAG overview
International Women's Day (IWD) on 8 March is a global day recognising the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It is also a key moment to call for and raise awareness of the need for women's equality and gender parity.The 2025 United Nations theme is 'For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.'… Read more, Africa makes significant strides in legal rights and protection for womenLaws on Violence against Women improved all across the continent. It was the most improved indicator in the sub-category and the second most improved within the entire IIAG, improving by +16.7. This shows countries’ renewed commitment to protecting the rights of girls and… Read more, Effective legislation on violence against women and girls must be accompanied by the necessary implementation measures., A convergence in the Political Power & Representation of Women over the decadeThis indicator followed an ambiguous trend at country level over the past decade, with some of the best performing countries having a decline in scores and an increase in scores for the lowest performing countries. Africa: Political Power & Representation of… Read more, Rwanda, which remains a top scorer at the continental and global level, registered a slight decline (-0.7) since 2014 while Somalia, though the lowest performer in 2023, improved by +7.5 points over the past decade.As of 2024, women constituted just a quarter of all parliamentarians in Africa - 26% in the lower houses, and 21% in the upper houses… Read more, Despite significant progress, Africa is only halfway towards achieving the SDG target 5.5 of 50% of seats held by women in national parliament., Mixed progress on Access to Socioeconomic Opportunities for WomenThe indicator improved for 56.1% of Africa’s population but also declined for almost half, 40.4% showing divided progress across the continent over the last decade. Access to Socioeconomic Opportunities for Women in Africa improved 56.1% of Africa’s population but also declined… Read more, This shows that countries are at varying levels in terms of implementing structures and reforms aimed at eliminating restrictions on women's employment and promoting financial inclusion in the private and public sector.Gambia which experienced the most improvement (+20.2), has promoted the economic empowerment of women through its Women Enterprise… Read more, The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown worsened the pre-existing inequalities in women’s access to essential public services in Africa, The mandated lockdown regulations implemented all across the continent deepened the pre-existing gender inequalities in access to essential public services.In the education sector, school closures left millions of children out of school. This brought additional risks of gender based violence for girls such as early marriage that affected gender… Read more, Public Perception of Female Leadership was the only perception indicator in the IIAG that improved over the past decade. It has gradually improved alongside Political Power & Representation of Women in Africa.
New data story - Latest COPs
On Thursday, 6 March, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation released a new data story, Latest COPs - key outcomes for Africa.The data story summarises the recent research brief, Latest COPs on climate change, desertification, and biodiversity—key outcomes for Africa (2024-25). It provides an overview of the latest developments at major Conferences of the… Read more
