Research & the Prosperity Index
If it isn’t measured, it isn’t real.
The Tindira Prosperity Index is our instrument for asking the hard question: is Africa’s integration actually translating into prosperity for women or only into rhetoric?
THE INDEX
What the Index measures
The Prosperity Index tracks whether the opening of African markets is producing measurable gains for women across the ETOP dimensions earning, trading, owning and the broader markers of prosperity: leadership, security and resilience. It is designed to hold institutions, including Tindira, accountable to evidence rather than intention
Earn Women’s incomes & wage parity
Trade Women’s
intra-African trade participation
Own Women’s business & asset ownership
Prosper Generational economic mobility
How we use it
Findings feed directly back into the work: shaping where the Earn, Trade and Own engines focus, informing partners and funders, and anchoring the conversation at the annual Tindira Summit. Over time, the Index becomes a continental record of whether the AfCFTA Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade is being kept.
Four dimensions
Prosperity, measured along ETOP.
Earn
Income
Women’s wages, formalization and movement into higher-value sectors.
Trade
Participation
Women’s share of cross-border and continental trade under the AfCFTA
Own
Assets
Women’s ownership of businesses, property, IP and equity.
Prosper
Outcomes
Leadership, voice, security and resilience the human meaning of it all.
Built to be trusted.
The Index is only a strength if it is rigorous. Our approach is transparent by design.
Indicators
What we track
A defined set of indicators across the four ETOP dimensions income, trade participation, asset ownership and prosperity outcomes disaggregated by sex and age.
Method
How we measure
A mix of household and enterprise survey data, partner administrative data and continental trade statistics, against a fixed baseline.
Cadence
How often
A baseline followed by regular waves, with findings published at the annual Tindira Summit.