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Functioning Criminal Justice System

This sub-indicator assesses the extent to which the criminal investigation system and the prosecutorial system are functioning. This is based on the following criteria: the extent to which there are effective intelligence systems to support criminal investigators; proactive investigation methods, such as undercover operations; mechanisms to gather information and analyse evidence; proper storage and chain of custody procedures for material evidence; systems to protect witnesses and whistle-blowers and exchange information between criminal investigative service agencies; a sufficient number of criminal investigators; competence of criminal investigators; adequate resources; independence of forensic evidence; adequate training/education of prosecutors; prosecutors, investigators and judicial police that do not engage in corrupt practices and that understand the law; a sufficient number of prosecutors to handle caseloads; conduction of eyewitness identification of defendants in a manner that does not improperly disadvantage the accused.

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Top 10 countries

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(2021)
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('12-'21)

Bottom 10 countries

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(2021)
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('12-'21)

Most improved countries

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(2021)
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('12-'21)

Most deteriorated countries

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(2021)
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('12-'21)
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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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