Basic Rights Watch (BRW), a Nigeria-based non-governmental organization (NGO) with a mission is to leverage open data, disruptive ideas and digital technologies to enhance popular participation and political accountability has celebrated its five years of commitments to advocating for basic Read More …
In Nigeria, the civic space continues to shrink. Clear examples of this are the consistent attacks on freedom of information and expression as well as media freedom, which are all constituent parts of a country’s civic space. Since 2015, attacks Read More …
Dear Mr. President, My name is Austin Ekwujuru and I am a Champion for girl child education. Nigeria accounts for 45% of all out-of-school children in West Africa, with over 10 million out-of-school children. In the pool, girls account Read More …
BudgIT and others task the Federal and State governments to adequately utilize funds for education for the development of the sector. The education budget performance is on a decline as funds targeted to the sector are either not accessed or Read More …
A 2 day capacity building training for young women peace builders on access to information.
In commoration of the 2020 International Peace Day. The narrative of shaping peace together reiterates the need for an intergenerational drive for co-creation, coownership, collective action and shared leadership in the promotion of peace in Africa. Premised on that, our Read More …
The Young Women Teaching Peace is a peer to peer community that aims to accelerate the localization of the Women Peace and Security WPS and Youth Peace and Security YPS Agendas in Nigeria by meaningfully empowering young women to become Read More …
Basic Rights Watch is pleased to announce the 2020 National FOI Ranking scheduled to take place on Monday, 28th September, to mark the International Day for Universal Access to Information. This ranking measures compliance of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) Read More …