{
  "schema": "paso-governance-framework-v1",
  "title": "PASO governance, teams and role separation framework",
  "public_document": "PASO_governance_framework_metadata_clean.pdf",
  "mission": {
    "fr": "PASO est une organisation d\u00e9centralis\u00e9e et un observatoire d\u2019intelligence publique consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 la souverainet\u00e9 africaine, \u00e0 la protection des populations, \u00e0 la documentation probatoire et \u00e0 l\u2019action l\u00e9gale.",
    "en": "PASO is a decentralised public-intelligence and research organisation for African sovereignty, population protection, evidence-gated documentation and lawful action.",
    "principle": "Its power is in the people; its method protects the people."
  },
  "governance_levels": [
    "Governing Council",
    "Executive Coordination Cell",
    "Core Branches",
    "Temporary Country/Dossier Cells"
  ],
  "branches": [
    {
      "name": "Legal & Constitutional",
      "purpose": "legal framing, constitutional review, court/UN/AU/ICC route preparation, right of reply"
    },
    {
      "name": "Intelligence, OSINT & Evidence",
      "purpose": "public-source collection, chronology, actor mapping, risk scoring, source registers"
    },
    {
      "name": "Population Safety & Source Protection",
      "purpose": "risk triage, redaction, protected evidence routing, witness/source safety"
    },
    {
      "name": "Research, Methodology & Standards",
      "purpose": "KPIs, scoring rubrics, evidence labels, bibliography, standards and peer review"
    },
    {
      "name": "Press & Public Communication",
      "purpose": "public notices, press kits, multilingual summaries, correction logs"
    },
    {
      "name": "Engineering, Data & Platform",
      "purpose": "static site, JSON exports, backups, security, metadata stripping, public API"
    }
  ],
  "separation_of_duties": [
    "intake",
    "data_collection",
    "curation",
    "analysis",
    "legal_review",
    "protection_review",
    "publication",
    "implementation"
  ],
  "decision_rules": {
    "level_0": "team lead",
    "level_1": "dossier lead + evidence review",
    "level_2": "executive coordination + legal + protection",
    "level_3": "governing council or delegated legal committee",
    "level_4": "legal + protection only"
  },
  "evidence_labels": [
    "public_fact",
    "public_allegation",
    "corroborated_pattern",
    "protected_evidence",
    "legal_finding"
  ],
  "confidentiality": "Public pages disclose roles and methods, not protected members, witnesses, raw evidence handlers or sealed annexes."
}