The African resource centre for Social Protection.
Knowledge in Action, towards Social Policy Excellence
Ghala is the Kiswahili word for granary. In the traditional African homestead, the granary was more than a storage structure. It occupied a central place in the community, preserving the harvest and ensuring it remained available when it was needed. Ghala applies this idea to knowledge.
Across Africa, a wealth of social policy and social protection knowledge already exists. Research studies, policy frameworks, evaluation reports, programme designs, financing documents, implementation tools and lessons from practice are produced across countries and institutions. However, these resources are often scattered across different platforms, organizations and personal archives. Some are difficult to find, while others risk being forgotten or lost.
Ghala brings this knowledge together. As the Institute’s knowledge repository, Ghala provides a central platform for collecting, curating, preserving and making accessible critical social policy and social protection resources from across Africa. It ensures that policymakers, practitioners, researchers, educators, students and other actors can find and use relevant knowledge at the point of need.
Like a granary, Ghala is carefully managed but collectively valuable. The Institute takes responsibility for identifying, organizing and maintaining the resources, while the wider social policy and social protection community can draw from them to support research, learning, policy development, programme design and implementation.
Ghala is therefore more than a digital archive. It is a living knowledge resource that preserves Africa’s social policy experience and makes it available to inform present decisions and future practice.
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Find research studies, policy frameworks, evaluation reports, programme designs, financing documents, implementation tools and lessons from practice — gathered from across Africa.