Governance and Civic Engagement

The Governance and Civic Engagement programme seeks to strengthen democratic institutions, enhance governance transparency, foster active citizenship, and promote sustainable development.

  • • Governance Innovation Lab: Experimenting with new approaches and technologies to enhance domestic accountability in line with local democratic contexts.
    • SDG Collaborative Action Forum: A platform for collaboration on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), involving a variety of stakeholders that include government, the private sector, and civil society.
    • Civic Engagement and Rights Protection Initiative: Supports journalists and activists, fostering public dialogue on civic rights and responsibilities to ensure active participation in governance.
    • Citizen-Led Accountability Initiative: Provides physical and virtual platforms for citizen-led action to promote accountability in Nigeria.
    • Strategic Convenings: High-level national and international dialogues focused on addressing the most difficult policy, democratic, and nation-building challenges facing Nigeria and Africa.

Content Aggregation System for Elections (CASE 2015)

One of the many highlights of the 2015 General Elections was the role that technology played in empowering Nigerian citizens and CSOs to organize, collaborate and mobilize. The Content Aggregation System for Elections (CASE2015), developed by the Yar’Adua Foundation, was an example of multi-stakeholder collaboration in sharing election observation information. The platform retrieved more than 2.6 million micro-reports from social media and received over 11,000 reports from registered observers in the field. These reports enabled volunteers to identify 1,542 critical incidents that were escalated to INEC and relevant security agencies in a timely manner.

 

CASE 2015 Report: Content Aggregation System for Elections 2015
CASE 2015: Pilot Test Report March 2014
Social Media Tracking Centre and the 2011 Elections
Promoting Two-Way Communication between INEC and its Stakeholders  2011
Electoral Reform: Building Confidence for the Future March 2005