Published on: 11 October 2024
| Starting from 16 September 2024, ACLED is including data from its partner organization Equal Access International for Cote d’Ivoire. In addition to weekly data updates, historical data going back to January 2021 have been added to ACLED’s dataset. Equal Access International helps communities around the world drive sustainable and transformative change through their proven participatory media, technology, and outreach model. Resilience for Peace is a five-year USAID-funded initiative to strengthen community resilience, learning, and civic and economic empowerment opportunities to prevent violent extremism in Côte d’Ivoire’s northern border areas. |
Supplementation Period and Scope
ACLED added a total of 76 events to its dataset, primarily focused on the northern regions of Côte d’Ivoire, specifically the Zanzan, Savanes, and Denguélé districts.
Data Publication Date
The historical data were published on 16 September 2024.
Partnering for better data
ACLED has been partnering with Equal Access International since August 2024. Through this partnership, ACLED has significantly enhanced its coverage of Cote d’Ivoire’s northern districts of Zanzan, Savanes, and Denguélé, which border Mali and Burkina Faso.
Incorporating data from Equal Access International adds 76 events to ACLED’s coverage of Cote d’Ivoire that were not previously reported by other sources. This represents around 20-30% of events annually since 2022. These additions significantly enhance ACLED’s coverage of political violence events in the northern districts; notably doubling event counts in the Zanzan and Denguele districts, and increasing event counts in the Savanes district by one third.
Moreover, data provided by Equal Access International also includes information about victims’ identities, such as ethnicity. This addition allows for a deeper understanding of the identity groups affected by unrest in Cote d’Ivoire since 2021. The information provided by this partner also offers insight into local political violence dynamics involving vigilante justice, land disputes, and tensions between ethnic and communal groups that are overlooked by conventional media outlets.
For more on how ACLED integrates new sources to its dataset, see How are new sources added to ACLED coverage?
