Our Approach to Inclusive Governance
Governance concerns how decisions are made, who has a seat at the table, and how power and resources are shared. Inclusive governance means that people, including those often pushed to the margins, can have a genuine say in the choices that shape their lives and can hold institutions to account. Across Africa, economic growth has not always reached everyone, in part because too many people remain excluded from decision-making. Strong policies can only deliver inclusive development when the institutions responsible for them are open, accountable, and responsive.
At INCLUDE, we see inclusive governance as central to making inclusive development possible. Good policies rarely succeed on their own: they require coalitions of committed actors across government and society who can navigate the resistance that change often brings. Our work gathers evidence on how citizens, civil society, and governments can hold one another to account and share power, with attention to whether young people, women, and other excluded groups can shape the decisions that affect them and share in what those decisions deliver.
