News from the region
Quickly access all the latest news, articles and press releases from our centres operating in the Southern African Development Community
Angola pre-election day developments
Election campaigns Indications are that election campaigning has remained relatively peaceful with no major incidents of violence reported. The National Youth Council launched a door-to-door voter...
GGA mourns Prof Ivor Sarakinsky
GGA mourns the passing of Ivor Sarakinsky, an associate professor in the Wits School of Governance (WSG) and a member of the editorial advisory board of The Africa Governance Papers. Professor...
Good governance resources for the people
MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release July 2021 Citizens across South Africa are calling out for vastly improved governance standards. Good Governance Africa will launch a unique website to empower...
Good Governance Africa’s Chris Maroleng discusses the current state of affairs in South Africa
Listen to Good Governance Africa's SADC Executive Director Chris Maroleng as he discusses how the current state of affairs in South Africa will have a long lasting effect on her people, and explains...
Chris Maroleng on Newzroom Afrika as he discusses the pro-democracy protests in Eswatini
Protests against King Mswati III in Eswatini have turned violent, and a strict curfew has been imposed to contain the unrest in Africa's last absolute monarchy. Swazi citizens accuse the king of...
SADC COVID-19 Pandemic – an Opportunity to Strengthen Governance
To many in the research community, Africa remains an anomaly, as it has experienced less of the coronavirus burden than many other regions in the world. According to the Africa Centre for Disease...
The possibility of COVID-19 being used for bioterrorism, with Dr Craig Moffat
"The intrinsic nature of extremist organisations is to disrupt normality and instil a sense of fear in a society. It is is not far fetched to imagine a scenario in which a pandemic such as COVID-19...
Programmes
Governance Insights and Analytics (GIA)
The GIA team is the primary custodian of the Africa Digital Databank (ADD), a dynamic and integrated store of data relevant to governance. In addition to ensuring that the ADD functions optimally for our clients’ needs, we build research products such as Intelligence Reports for the private sector. For more bespoke research requirements, we offer advisory services. The team also provides data visualization support and analytics to the other research streams.
Programmes
Governance Insights and Analytics (GIA)
The GIA team is the primary custodian of the Africa Digital Databank (ADD), a dynamic and integrated store of data relevant to governance. In addition to ensuring that the ADD functions optimally for our clients’ needs, we build research products such as Intelligence Reports for the private sector. For more bespoke research requirements, we offer advisory services. The team also provides data visualization support and analytics to the other research streams.
Human Security and Climate Change (HSCC)
The HSCC team explores the nexus between violent conflict, extremisms and climate change. Climate change is the single biggest challenge of our age, exacerbating and accelerating pre-existing challenges, of which pandemics like C-19 are only one. Africa bears the brunt of the impact burden, and our HSCC team is dedicated to building policy solutions that help African countries to secure greater human security in the midst of these challenges.
Natural Resource Governance (NRG)
Africa is blessed with substantial natural resource endowments. In the absence of strong governance institutions, these resources have, with a few important exceptions, been extracted in a way that generates rents for a small elite at the expense of citizen welfare. Our NRG team is dedicated to realizing the Africa Mining Vision and championing governance initiatives in the extractive industries that will turn the resource curse into a resource blessing.
Governance Delivery and Impact (GDI)
The GDI team performs the role of monitoring and evaluating governance performance across the continent. We track elections, providing expert analysis on their credibility and whether they are free and fair. We hold governments to account through calling for transparency and sensible resource allocation for the benefit of citizens. Simultaneously, we equip civil society with high-quality content with which to exercise their voice and constrain elite abuse of power.
GGA – SADC
GGA – SADC
Tel:Â +27 11 268 0479
Email:Â info@gga.org
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