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Measuring civil society space
In previous iterations of the IIAG, the assessment of civil society has been limited to indicators in the Rights subcategory that measure citizens’ freedoms of expression, association and assembly. For the first time, the 2016 IIAG includes a specific indicator that explicitly measures civil society, featured in the Participation sub-category.… Read more
Electricity Infrastructure is holding back further progress in Infrastructure
The indicator Electricity Infrastructure consists of two measures: Electricity Supply issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which assesses the reliability of electricity supply. Reliable Electricity Supply coming from Afrobarometer (AFR), which captures how African citizens perceive the government’s handling of providing a reliable… Read more
Measuring Poverty
In Africa, poverty alleviation is one of the main expectations citizens have of their governments. However, data on poverty is severely limited. Only 39 African countries have collected data on ‘income poverty level’ (people who live on $1.90 a day), out of which only nine countries have two or more data points in the past decade,… Read more
Increase in Laws Protecting Women Against Violence
It’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a call to raise awareness and mobilise people everywhere to bring about change. The IIAG indicator Laws on Violence Against Women has shown an improvement, on average, of +9.5 points over the past decade. Rwanda in particular has shown notable improvement in the past ten… Read more
Corruption – still a worrying trend
The issue of corruption cuts across all dimensions of the Index. Indicators such as Judicial Independence and Property Rights, both in the Rule of Law sub-category for example, partly assess the impact of corruption while measures in other categories such as Transparency of State-owned Companies in Sustainable Economic Opportunity touch upon the… Read more
