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general impression from the African Group is that policymakers have been effective in dealing
with the key aspects of public information availability captured by the UNGS. Although
performance on average is lower than what is seen for other groups, as noted above, at the level
of individual countries, results are in fact much more encouraging; the average tends to drop
because of those countries in the very early stages of implementation.
Figure 21: UNGS data for the OIC African Group, 2017.
Source: UNGS.
Attention turns next to the Arab Group. The figure shows that performance is strong in some
countries: in Qatar, four of the five indicators are fully implemented, in Lebanon there are also
four out of five, while in Jordan it is three out of five. Most other indicators are the partially
implemented level (2 on the 3 point scale), but missing bars indicate a score of zero, which
means the measure is not implemented at all. A number of countries exhibit such missing bars,
which tends to pull down the regional average. Although performance is strong, it is important
to keep in mind that global best practice, as proxied by Singapore, has full implementation of
four of the five measures. Nonetheless, results at a country level from the Arab Group are
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Gabon
Guinea
Mali
Sierra Leone
Uganda
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