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The Africa Portal is a leading open source digital research repository and analysis hub dedicated to African policy issues. It was created in 2010 by the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in response to the need for greater visibility of and access to African-produced policy research.

According to its website, the Africa Portal contains over 9 000 publications that are freely available for download. It focuses on the following areas of research: politics and governance; economics; foreign policy; human rights; peace and security; These are sourced from its network of think tanks, the majority of which are based on the African continent. The platform also features a robust editorial hub, where subject experts and journalists from across Africa and beyond weigh in on pertinent topics dominating the news and African policy agenda.

History
The Africa Portal was jointly launched in 2010 by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Canada and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Managed out of SAIIA's Johannesburg office, the project focused on building up a critical mass of African-produced research in digital format and raising the visibility of this research to contribute to better, engaged policy-making. In 2017, SAIIA and CIGI relaunched the Africa Portal to include an editorial hub that publishes "analysis in various accessible formats, written by academics, journalists and subject experts".

CIGI provided financial support to the Africa Portal from 2010 to 2020. It is now solely managed by SAIIA.

Content Partner Network
Since its inception, the Africa Portal has partnered with think tanks based on the continent and, to a lesser extent, international institutions working on African policy issues. There are currently 95 think tanks in its network. They include the [for Security Studies|Institute for Security Studies (ISS)], Afrobarometer, Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA), The SUDD Institute, Policy Centre for the New South, Brookings Institution and International Crisis Group.

Research themes

 * Politics and Governance;
 * Economics;
 * Energy and Environment ;
 * Health;
 * Peace and Security;
 * Human Rights;
 * Foreign Policy;
 * Information and Communications Technology; and
 * Education