Crowdsourced Analytics
Community-contributed data and analysis from civil society organisations, researchers and citizen monitors across Africa — enriching continental accountability beyond what official statistics capture.
Official data has gaps. Communities fill them.
National statistics offices in many African countries publish data that is delayed by two or more years, incomplete at the subnational level, or missing for the specific indicators civil society needs to hold governments to continental commitments.
Crowdsourced analytics fills those gaps — community health monitors, parliamentary tracking coalitions, budget monitors and civil society researchers contributing verified subnational data that sits alongside official sources in the Renaissance Vault.
Three steps from contribution to publication.
Submit
Contributors submit datasets, monitoring reports, or analytical notes through the submission form. All submissions include a source declaration and methodology note.
Review
Our analytics team reviews each submission for methodology, source quality and consistency with existing data. Contributors are notified of the outcome within ten working days.
Publish
Accepted contributions are attributed and published in this library and — where spatial data is included — integrated as a layer in the Renaissance Vault.
Data integrity standards
All published contributions carry a clear attribution to the contributing organisation and a methodology disclosure. Contributions that cannot be verified against a primary source are not published. Crowdsourced data is always displayed distinctly from official government or AU statistical sources in the Renaissance Vault.
Types of contribution by pillar.
Contributions must be original, documented and attributable to an organisation or research team. We accept data, monitoring reports and analytical notes.
Gender Equality
Gender parity and rights monitoring
Subnational gender parity data, Maputo Protocol domestication monitoring reports, parliamentary representation tracking and gender-based violence incidence data from community monitors.
Health Equity
Health budget and service access data
Subnational health facility access data, budget tracking from parliamentary monitors, community health worker coverage mapping and immunisation delivery reports from civil society observers.
Socio-Economic Justice
Trade, fiscal and economic access data
Cross-border trade corridor monitoring, domestic revenue tracking, economic inclusion data for marginalised communities and African Continental Free Trade Area implementation monitoring at the subnational level.
Cross-Cutting
Continental commitment domestication tracking
Legislative progress monitoring, budget appropriation tracking and civil society shadow reports on state party compliance with AU frameworks — applicable across all three pillars.
Submit your data or analysis
Civil society organisations, researchers and community monitors are invited to contribute. Write to us with your dataset or monitoring report and we will guide you through the submission process.
