AI-Powered Public Financial Intelligence

Guinea-Bissau needs facts about its own money.

An AI-powered financial intelligence platform that aggregates data from the IMF, World Bank, BCEAO, donors, and government sources — with every figure traceable to its primary source. For journalists, civil society, the Court of Accounts, and reform-minded officials.

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4 Public participation score (out of 100) — one of the lowest in the world.
21 Corruption Perceptions Index (out of 100) — ranked 158th of 180 countries.
80% Debt-to-GDP ratio — classified as high risk.
0 Timely published budget execution reports.
The Problem

Structural opacity in Guinea-Bissau's public finances.

Guinea-Bissau is one of the most fiscally opaque countries in the world. Domestic accountability institutions are severely degraded — but international data partly compensates for this gap.

117th
of 125 countries
On the Open Budget Survey 2023 for transparency. Below every Sub-Saharan African country with comparable data.
2×
Parliament dissolved
The Popular National Assembly was dissolved in May 2022 and again in December 2023 — suspending normal legislative oversight of the budget cycle.
0
Audit reports
The Court of Accounts does not systematically publish audit reports. Sub-national data: non-existent. SOE data: non-existent.
Data that already exists

Eight independent sources cover Guinea-Bissau — but none alone tells the full story.

IMF
Article IV consultations, DataMapper, ECF reporting, debt sustainability analyses
World Bank
100+ WDI indicators, International Debt Statistics, public expenditure reviews
BCEAO
WAEMU regional central bank, Table 4.5 government transactions, quarterly bulletins
PALOP-TL e-Budget
Historical budget data 2016–2025 with CSV export, by department and function
IATI
Structured donor project financing in XML/CSV/JSON format
UMOA-Titres
Real-time public debt auctions, yields, and issuance amounts
MEF Guinea-Bissau
OGE budget proposals and execution reports (PDF, unstructured)
World Bank IDS
External debt statistics with full creditor coverage
How It Works

Five capabilities against opacity.

The platform aggregates international, regional, and domestic data — and transforms raw numbers into accountability signals.

i.
Unified public finance database
All Guinea-Bissau public finance data from eight tier-1 sources — normalized, time-stamped, with per-source confidence scoring.
ii.
Cross-source reconciliation
For any fiscal year and policy area, the platform automatically compares figures across sources. Divergences are computed, dated, and flagged — not as proof of wrongdoing, but as signals for further inquiry.
iii.
WAEMU regional benchmarks
Comparison with seven WAEMU partner countries along structural axes: GDP per capita, debt-to-GDP, tax-to-GDP, aid dependence. Analogous to govern.ch's "structure twins".
iv.
Anti-corruption pattern detection
Signals for ghost workers, supplier concentration, debt-issuance opacity, aid leakage proxies, and SOE black boxes.
v.
Natural language access in three languages
AI orchestrator with specialized agents accepts queries in English, French, and Portuguese. Every numerical claim is linked to the source record. No invented numbers.
vi.
Open data and open source
Derived dataset published as open data under a permissive license. ETL plugin code is open source. Methodology is inspectable. Platform cannot be suppressed by removing a single operator.
Example query

Ask in natural language. Get sourced figures.

The AI layer navigates four MongoDB collections and produces answers with clickable citations to the primary source.

Question

"How much did Guinea-Bissau spend on primary education per child in 2023, compared to Benin and Togo? Show me the underlying data and explain the methodology."

Answer

Based on data available for 2023:

Guinea-Bissau: ~42 USD per child (primary education, OGE execution vs PALOP-TL e-Budget)

Benin: ~78 USD per child (UNESCO UIS, 2022)

Togo: ~61 USD per child (UNESCO UIS, 2022)

Methodological note: Guinea-Bissau data has low confidence (0.50) due to variable quality of MEF execution reports. Benin and Togo data is more complete but refers to 2022 — 2023 data was not yet available at time of query.

Sources: PALOP-TL e-Budget (CSV), UNESCO UIS Database, MEF OGE 2023 (PDF) · AI-generated query · Verified against primary sources

Who it is for

Every accountability actor has different needs.

The platform serves primary audiences in Guinea-Bissau and secondary international and donor audiences.

Court of Accounts

Audit-priority signals; cross-source reconciliation as starting point for investigation; longitudinal data the institution does not currently maintain.

Journalists

Sourced data for investigative reporting; three-language access lowers the cost of fact-checking for professionals in Bissau.

Civil society

Data backbone for citizen budget production; cross-checking ministerial claims; OBS country submission preparation.

Future ANP members

Briefing material for parliamentary budget hearings; independent reference against executive submissions.

Development partners

Independent reference for budget-support conditionality discussions; disbursement-to-execution reconciliation tracking.

Diaspora

Civic accountability tool for the diaspora in Portugal, France, and Senegal — connecting Bissau-Guineans to the public finance debate of their country.

Frequently asked

What govern.gw is — and is not.

Is this an investigative journalism platform?
No. The platform does not publish editorial content. It produces sourced data and analytical outputs; investigative use is for others — journalists, civil society, auditors.
How does it guarantee no invented numbers?
Architecturally: every numerical claim in any output is linked to a source record. The reconciliation agent validates against primary records before display. There are no numbers without a clickable citation.
Does a divergence mean corruption occurred?
No. A divergence is a signal for further investigation — not a finding. The platform documents; others investigate.
Does it need the Guinea-Bissau government's cooperation?
Not to launch. The platform uses international, regional, and domestic sources that are already public. It becomes more valuable as cooperation grows — but does not depend on it.
Who operates the platform?
Kampaventures GmbH (Switzerland), under the same legal entity as govern.ch, with a partner board including Guinea-Bissau civil society organizations.

Public data. Verifiable accounts.

Better governance. Fact-based decisions. Accounts you can verify.

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