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Enhancing Local Governance: How the private sector can support data capacity in South Africa’s municipalities
According to the World Bank’s Statistical Capacity Index, South Africa ranks among the highest on the African continent. This strong foundation positions the country at the forefront of Fourth...
Governance Performance Index – South Africa 2024
South Africa’s system of local government is presently undergoing its most widespread sequence of changes since the introduction of a new system shortly after our transition to democracy....
Leveraging 4IR for Governance and Urban Development in Johannesburg
Leveraging the Fourth Industrial Revolution for governance and urban development in Johannesburg.
Inclusive governance matters for the private sector
At first glance, the term “inclusive governance” can appear nebulous, especially when compared to some of the more traditional concerns businesses and investors have. However, the principle which...
GGA’s new Governance Performance Index gets wide attention
Exactly how well, or not, is a municipality performing in terms of service delivery, leadership, planning and administration? Good Governance Africa (GGA) has launched a reliable tool to help you...
The private sector can help ensure local-level stability in South Africa
At the forefront of debates about the functioning of local government in South Africa is a question of stability. This discourse is understandably dominated by the attention given to political...
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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.
