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and the University of Nairobi. ACEIR contributes to deep,
multidimensional, and interdisciplinary understanding
of inequality specific to each country’s context. This
includes a continental and global understanding of how
inequalities can be overcome.
Over the last five years, various nodes of the African
Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR)
have published three inequality diagnostics in South
Africa, Ghana, and Kenya. The diagnostics summarise
existing knowledge on inequality trends in different
African countries by using available national survey
data and take stock of future data needs to help inform
policies to tackle inequality. Once published, the report
serves as a country-specific guideline on inequality
trends and is used to explore the implications of the data
analyses in partnership with local institutions, especially
national statistical offices.
In 2022, ACEIR commenced data collation and analyses
for two new inequality diagnostics for Mali and
Mozambique. ACEIR is working with researchers from
the Institut National de la Statistique (INSTAT) Mali to
produce the Malian Inequality Trends Report.
For the Mozambique report, ACEIR is working with
the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económico (IESE),
an independent Mozambican non-profit organisation
that conducts and promotes interdisciplinary scientific
research on problems of social and economic
development in Mozambique and southern Africa.
ACEIR researchers from the SA node were consulted for
input on the World Banks’s report entitled “Inequality in
Southern Africa: An assessment of the Southern African
Customs Union”.
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Top: Staff and students prepare care packs from the
thousands of donations that were collected to support
survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
Right: The Handbook on Inequality Measurement for
Country Studies was developed by ACEIR to empower
researchers within their particular country, and to facilitate
the comparability of results and findings across countries.
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