Www.moibrahimfoundation.org. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation Supports good governance and great leadership in Africa. The Foundation works to: – Provide a framework.

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The Mo Ibrahim Foundation

• Supports good governance and great leadership in Africa. • The Foundation works to:– Provide a framework and tools by which citizens and

governments can assess progress in governance.– Recognise excellence in African leadership.– Stimulate debate on the quality of governance and major

governance issues in Africa.– Develop leadership and governance capacity in Africa.

Four Major Programme Areas

1. The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership.

2. The Ibrahim Discussion Forum.3. Capacity Development Programmes.4. The Ibrahim Index of African

Governance.

• Celebrates excellence in African leadership. • Awarded to a former Executive Head of State or Government by a Prize Committee composed of eminent figures, including two Nobel Laureates.

• Previous laureates are:• President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique (2007)• President Festus Mogae of Botswana (2008) • President Pedro Pires of Cape Verde (2011)• President Nelson Mandela (Honorary)

• In 2009 and 2010 the Ibrahim Prize was not awarded by the Prize Committee.

The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership

•An annual high level discussion forum on major African issues, facilitated by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.

•The 2010 Ibrahim Forum took place in November 2010 in Port Louis, Mauritius. The topic was Regional Economic Integration.

•The 2011 Ibrahim Forum took place in November 2011 in Tunis, Tunisia. The topic was African Agriculture: From Meeting Needs To Creating Wealth.

•The 2012 Ibrahim Forum will take place in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. The focus will be on youth in Africa.

The Ibrahim Discussion Forum

•The Ibrahim Scholarship Programmes • A range of scholarships to support aspiring African leaders at a number of distinguished academic institutions, including:

• Ahfad University in Khartoum• The American University in Cairo• London Business School• School of Oriental and African Studies

•The Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships Programme • A selective programme designed to identify and prepare the next generation of outstanding African leaders by providing them with mentoring opportunities in key multilateral institutions. • Ibrahim Leadership Fellows are hosted at:

•African Development Bank.•UN Economic Commission for Africa.•World Trade Organization.

Capacity Building Programmes

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance

• is funded and led by an African institution.• was designed to inform and empower citizens and

public authorities to assess governance performance.• is a progressive and responsive tool that will evolve

to accommodate feedback and critiques from stakeholders.

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance

• Governance is defined by the Foundation as inclusive from the viewpoint of the citizen. It aims to capture all aspects of what a 21st century citizen has the right to expect from his or her state, and what a state has the responsibility to deliver to citizens.

• It can be summarised by four over-arching categories (made up of constituent sub-categories): – Safety & Rule of Law (Rule of Law, Accountability, Personal Safety,

National Security) – Participation & Human Rights (Participation, Rights, Gender) – Sustainable Economic Opportunity (Public Management, Business

Environment, Infrastructure, Rural Sector) – Human Development (Welfare, Education, Health)

2011 Ibrahim Index of African Governance

• Covers 11 data years (2000 – 2010) • Includes 53 African countries• Uses data from 23 third-party sources

Ibrahim Index structure

121 variables 86 indicators 14 Sub-categories

2011 Ibrahim Index 4 Categories

2011 Ibrahim Index Structure

2011 Ibrahim Index Data Providers1 AfDB African Development Bank2 BF Bertelsmann Foundation3 CDD Ghana Center for Democratic Development – Ghana4 CIRI Cingranelli-Richards5 EIU Economist Intelligence Unit6 FH Freedom House7 HER-WSJ The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal8 IDMC Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre9 IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development

10 IGME Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation11 IMF International Monetary Fund12 IREEP Institut de Recherche Empirique en Economie Politique13 ITU International Telecommunication Union14 OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development15 OHCHR Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights16 PTS Political Terror Scale17 RSF Reporters sans Frontières18 UCDP Uppsala University, Department of Peace and Conflict Research - Uppsala Conflict Data Programme19 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS20 UNHCR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees21 USDS U.S. Department of State - Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons22 WB International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, The World Bank23 WHO World Health Organisation

Some Strengths• Comprehensive in its coverage of 53 countries in Africa.• Simple, replicable methodology.• Combination of expert assessment and official data.• Provides scores at category and sub-category level, as

well as the composite Index score.• Publishes all raw data used in the compilation of the

Index.• Transparent in publishing margins of error and

confidence intervals.

Some Limitations

• Lack of data availability – particularly for poverty and inequality.

• Need for assessments by African experts – purpose of Global Integrity project.

• Need to capture citizens’ opinions – support for Afrobarometer.

Rank Score / 100 Rank Score / 1001 Mauritius 82.5 28 Libya 49.92 Cape Verde 79.0 29 Djibouti 48.73 Botswana 76.1 30 Sierra Leone 48.24 Seychelles 73.5 31 Comoros 47.45 South Africa 70.6 32 Mauritania 47.36 Namibia 69.7 33 Madagascar 47.17 Ghana 66.0 34 Ethiopia 45.88 Lesotho 62.8 35 Togo 45.69 Tunisia 61.7 36 Liberia 45.4

10 Egypt 60.7 37 Burundi 45.111 Benin 59.9 38 Cameroon 45.012 São Tomé and Príncipe 58.4 39 Niger 44.213 Tanzania 58.1 40 Congo 42.414 Morocco 57.8 41 Nigeria 41.115 Senegal 57.5 42 Angola 40.816 Zambia 57.0 43 Guinea 37.817 Malawi 56.5 44 Guinea-Bissau 37.218 Algeria 55.3 45 Equatorial Guinea 36.519 Burkina Faso 55.1 46 Côte d'Ivoire 36.320 Uganda 55.0 47 Eritrea 34.821 Mozambique 54.6 48 Sudan 33.122 Mali 53.6 49 Central African Republic 32.623 Kenya 52.6 50 Congo, Democratic Rep. 32.424 Gambia 51.8 51 Zimbabwe 30.925 Rwanda 51.7 52 Chad 30.626 Swaziland 51.4 53 Somalia 7.927 Gabon 50.7

2011 Ibrahim Index of African Governance: Overall Results (Rank Order)

• Half a decade of sustained progress in economic management and human development

• Growing imbalance with reversals in the rule of law and rights

2011 Ibrahim Index: Key Findings

• Success stories demonstrate that equity and balance are key to governance quality (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mauritius, Cape Verde, Seychelles, Botswana, South Africa)

• Significant decline in Madagascar

• Meaningful improvement in Angola and Togo

2011 Ibrahim Index: Statistically Significant Improvements

Liberia: gains across all four categories. 13 out of 14 sub-categories have improved.

Liberia Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone: gains across all four categories. Improved the most in Safety and Rule of Law and Sustainable Economic Opportunity

2011 Ibrahim Index: Statistically Significant Decline

Madagascar: only country to have declined significantly over the past 5 years. Driven by declines in all categories and significant declines in Safety & Rule of Law and Participation & Human Rights

Madagascar

2011 Ibrahim Index: ImbalanceTunisia, Egypt and Libya demonstrate imbalance between weak performance in Safety & Rule of Law and Participation & Human Rights and strong performance in Sustainable Economic Opportunity and Human Development

Tunisia Egypt Libya

Ethiopia: 2011 Ibrahim Index

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OVERALL SCORE 34 8 45.8 SAFETY AND RULE OF LAW 38 9 45.4 RULE OF LAW 33 7 38.0

ACCOUNTABILITY 29 6 39.9

PERSONAL SAFETY 31 7 42.5

NATIONAL SECURITY 45 8 61.0 PARTICIPATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS 38 8 34.1 PARTICIPATION 40 8 23.1

RIGHTS 42 7 27.9

GENDER 24 7 51.5 SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY 15 4 53.8 PUBLIC MANAGEMENT 13 2 61.9

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 22 5 56.3

INFRASTRUCTURE 20 3 32.3

RURAL SECTOR 13 5 64.5 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 31 9 49.9 WELFARE 34 9 47.5

EDUCATION 28 6 46.5

HEALTH 39 10 55.8

Ethiopia: Governance Trend Over Time

2011 Ibrahim Index Ethiopia: Category Performance