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Control of Primary Forest Loss

This sub-sub-indicator measures the extent of primary forest loss in the country. Only primary forest areas that overlap with tree cover are considered. Primary forests are among the most biodiverse forests, providing a multitude of ecosystem services, making them crucial to monitor for national land use planning and carbon accounting. Primary forests are defined as "mature natural humid tropical forest cover that has not been completely cleared and regrown in recent history." Tree cover is defined as all vegetation taller than 5 meters in height as of 2000. 'Loss' indicates the removal or mortality of tree cover and can be due to a variety of factors, including mechanical harvesting, fire, disease, or storm damage. As such, 'loss' does not equate to deforestation. Primary forest loss each year is calculated as a percentage of extent of primary forest as detailed for 2001 in file sent by source. Calculation done by MIF Research team.

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    • Public Perception of Overall Governance

    About Citizens’ Voices

    As citizens are the recipients of public leadership and governance, the assessment of governance performance of the IIAG is accompanied by the Citizens’ Voices dataset in an effort to contextualise the official and expert assessment data in the IIAG with the reality on the ground as perceived by citizens.

    MIF has been working with and supporting Afrobarometer, the leading pan-African research institution conducting public opinion surveys on the continent, and the 2022 IIAG framework gives these more prominence. Formerly scattered at various levels in the IIAG, citizens’ assessments of various governance components are now highlighted in a Citizens’ Voices section, providing a comprehensive 'reality check' to complement the IIAG results.

    This section mirrors the IIAG categories and provides public perception data on the closest proxies to the IIAG measures. However, whilst these measures are available to compare across the IIAG, it is important to note that their scores do not form part of the calculation for Overall Governance.

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