Your up-to-date regulatory baseline

Structured, up-to-date legal and regulatory requirements for every African jurisdiction

Afriwise Regulatory Baseline is a structured legal and regulatory foundation for regulatory and compliance leaders who need to meet ISO, audit and legal register expectations. The Regulatory Baseline translates the complex legal landscape of any African country into clear, navigable regulatory obligations organised by country, topic and sector. Whether you're building a legal register, conducting regulatory risk assessments, aligning with ISO requirements, or preparing for internal/external audits, Regulatory Baseline gives you the clarity and structure to do it confidently and to defend it.

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Structured legal coverage

Quickly access the legal and regulatory instruments that contain your obligations across each African jurisdiction, Acts, regulations, notices, Codes, sector rules and Bills. Everything is organised and consistently classified under the relevant topic and industry, making it easy to map obligations into your internal compliance framework or GRC tool.

Built for ISO-aligned compliance systems

Regulatory Baseline helps teams meet requirements of ISO37301 (Compliance Management Systems), ISO 31000 (Risk Management) and ISO 9001/14001/45001 by delivering a structured, traceable foundation of applicable regulatory requirements. You immediately see what is in force, what is under reform, and how requirements connect to your internal controls.
Solution

A clear, defensible regulatory foundation for your compliance program

Regulatory Baseline is Africa’s only multi-country structured regulatory and legal register solution, giving compliance teams clear insight into the regulatory sources that matter: Acts, regulations, notices, guidelines, Codes of practice, enforcement rules, and the Bills or draft reforms that may impact your risk landscape. Instead of navigating inconsistent government portals and scattered PDFs, all content is structured by jurisdiction, topic/legal domain, industry/sector, instrument type and status, key compliance themes.

You will receive a curated explanation of the regulatory framework, all important applicable instruments, with clear status, official sources and English translations for non-English countries, and searchable full text, so you can go straight to the relevant obligation, duty, definition or compliance trigger.

Solution

Why regulatory and compliance teams rely on Afriwise Regulatory Baseline

ISO-aligned, defensible legal & regulatory registers

Create and maintain a register of applicable primary sources that aligns with expectations from ISO 37301, ISO 31000, internal auditors, external auditors and regulatory examiners.

Anticipate regulatory changes

See not only the current rules but also what may change. With Bills and draft reforms alongside in-force requirements, you identify future compliance impact early

Multilingual access

English translations are available for non-English-speaking countries, ensuring seamless understanding.

Fast, accurate regulatory research

Transform weeks of manual regulatory research into minutes. Leverage the productivity tools to compare regulatory frameworks and build registers more efficiently.

Curated, continuously updated information

Content is actively curated by Afriwise’s editorial team in collaboration with leading African law firms.

Cross-border clarity

Gain a comparable view of regulatory frameworks across all African countries where you operate.