The Citizens Watch

The Citizens Watch is an interactive public tracker designed to empower citizens, civic advocates, researchers, and local reporters to track subnational development policies across Nigeria.

Impact Metrics Overview

Real-time track records from ground-level deployments and monitoring cycles.

Promises Tracked
1

Campaign promises documented, geotagged, and audited.

States Tracked
1

Subnational territories across Nigeria monitored actively.

Citizens Reached
1

Empowered with transparency reports and civic-tech access.

Number of Volunteers
1

Grassroots citizen monitors validating local governance reports.

Interactive Project Blueprint

Hover over or tap each core pillar of the project below to interactively explore our mechanisms, stakeholders, and sectors of impact.

01 / The Tracker

The Citizens Watch is a promise tracker that is designed to enable citizens, civil societies, journalists, scholars and public policy analyst to track and measure the most significant campaign promises of government officials, in a bid to promote accountability and participatory governance.

02 / Core Philosophy

The Citizens Watch was born out of the conviction that there is no better way to enhance good governance than a fundamental citizen engagement. For government to work for the common good, citizens must be empowered with the information and skills to hold leaders accountable, support pro-people government policies and actively participate in the governance process.

03 / Intended Purpose

The purpose of this project is to develop a culture of constructive dialogue between the government and the governed, in a bid to enhance the quality of basic public services delivery in education, health, agriculture, infrastructures etc.

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