AfricaScope has sourced administrative boundaries for many countries across Africa, similar to those found on Google Earth. AfricaScope now provides them to you for easy access. These administrative boundaries are of great importance in providing reference to other layers of socio-economic and market information. Probably of more importance, data can be aggregated from smaller spatial areas and represented at various administrative levels. We are committed to also access geographical places data for African countries that can be used for geocoding purposes.

Through its networks and sources, AfricaScope is able to provide access to different administrative levels in most countries in Africa. The value of administrative boundaries is that it provides an important referential layer of information that can be overlaid to provide further understanding to your data. Information can also be aggregated to these administrative boundaries – for example, how much money governments or donors are allocating for development. The administrative boundaries are sourced from agencies such as the Africa Data Dissemination Service (ADDS), Southern African Humanitarian Information Management Services (SAHIMS), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), from regional and national partners and other sources.

AfricaScope provides this information because it is needed when using other datasets of AfricaScope and therefore, making it readily available is of benefit to our clients. As these datasets are already in the public domain you are able to download them free of charge.