For over 20 years, across 42 African countries, AB has collected and published reliable and timely data and analysis on citizens’ evaluations and experiences of democracy, governance, the economy, and society. AB has evolved into a premier continental research network whose surveys provide a two-decade data set freely available as a public good. At the heart of AB’s achievement is making public attitude data a cornerstone of African democracy and development discourse. With an unmatched track record of more than 385,000+ interviews in 42 countries, representing the views of more than three-fourths of the African population, AB is leading the charge to bridge the continent’s data gap. Among AB’s most notable achievements over the last twenty-five years is its contribution to reframing political and policy debates in and about Africa by making citizen voices heard in policymaking. Our findings have become a key source for giving voice to ordinary citizens, thus helping to break the monopoly of elites, experts and opinion leaders in political and policy debates. Our data enable governments and development stakeholders to identify citizens' policy and development priorities, pinpoint service delivery and development gaps, design evidence-based policies and programs, and track the effectiveness of interventions. • Public opinion has become a key pillar of Africa’s democracy, leading to the growing expectation that public voices must be heard in political and policy debates. Our data serves as an independent, evidence-based check on official claims and government-generated reports and statistics. • Our data reaches diverse audiences, from politicians and government officials to academics, journalists, media, civic society, international donors and investors. The data have become an indispensable global public good. AB data inform many global indices, such as the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer, and the World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators. The data are also used for country risk analyses and by credit rating and forecasting agencies such as the Economist Intelligence Unit. AB methods, also a public resource, have been widely recognised as ‘the gold standard’ of survey research in Africa. AB findings are impacting African economies and societies in a number of critical ways, including, among others: • Making African economic and social development policy processes (policy making, policy implementation, monitoring and evaluation) more evidence-based. • Creating a basis for democratising Africa’s economic and social development policy processes by reflecting the voices, preferences, and perspectives of ordinary citizens. • Identifying the scope of challenges such as climate change and corruption, and giving governments and development partners the evidence they need to identify and address problems. • Quantifying gender disparities in education, access to technology, asset ownership, decision-making power, and other gaps that must be overcome to advance Africa’s development.