pulsivahub/africa-ppri

African Public Participation Rights Index — structured open data on participation rights, enabling legislation, and civic access mechanisms across Africa # Africa PPRI — African Public Participation Rights Index **Structured open data on constitutional rights enforcement mechanisms and public participation rights across Africa.** Maintained by PulsivaHub · Live API: africa-ppri.pulsivahub.workers.dev --- ## What this is Most African constitutions guarantee the right to participate in governance. Most countries have legislation that creates specific mechanisms through which citizens can exercise that right — protection orders, labour dispute forums, housing courts, public hearings on budgets, complaints to constitutional commissions. This dataset indexes those rights and mechanisms in a consistent, machine-readable structure across African countries. It answers the questions: - What does this country's constitution say about a given right? - Which Acts of Parliament operationalise that right? - What specific process can a citizen use to enforce it? - Who do they contact for free help? - What happens if the primary mechanism fails? This is not a dataset about whether participation is working well in practice. It documents the formal legal framework — what citizens are entitled to, and what processes exist in law. --- ## Why this gap exists Constitutional text is increasingly available through tools like Constitute Project. Case law is available through AfricanLII. But the layer between them — the enabling legislation, the specific mechanisms, the procedural requirements — is scattered across government gazettes, municipal websites, and legal databases that are rarely machine-readable or continent-wide. Civic tech developers building for African contexts need to answer questions like "how does a farmworker in South Africa challenge an eviction?" or "where does a citizen report a constitutional rights violation?" Currently there is no structured API for this. --- ## Current coverage | Country | Version | Mechanisms | Status | |---|---|---|---| | South Africa | v3 | 75 | Draft — under review | More countri …