What is Nigeria Watch?How do we work?What could we buildtogether?

With funding from :

An online data base compiling violent deaths inNigeria since 2006 (www.nigeriawatch.org)

A project funded by the DFID/British Council throughthe NSRP Project since the signature of a MoU onthe 1st of February 2013

A project housed by the French Institute for Researchin Africa (IFRA-Nigeria), a research institution basedat the University of Ibadan since 1990

A group of 4 full-time Nigerian researchers andinformation retrieval specialists backed by a team ofFrench social scientists

A Component of the NSRP project and a member ofthe Peace and Security Working Group for Nigeria

Prof. Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos, University of Paris 8, Scientific Director

Dr. Adeola AdamsProject Coordinator

Afeno Super OdomovoDeputy Coordinator

Abiola V. AyodokunInformation Retrieval

Specialist

Vitus UkojiInformation Retrieval

Specialist

Gerard ChouinIFRA-Nigeria, DirectorScientific supervisor

Manuel ReinertIFRA-Nigeria

Research AssociateDeputy Scientific Supervisor

IFRA-Nigeria ishosted by the

Institute of AfricanStudies, University

of Ibadan

Nigeria Watch OfficeLocated at IFRA-Nigeria’s

Annex9 Parry Road

University of Ibadan

Seminar RoomIFRA-Nigeria AnnexUniversity of Ibadan

Nigeria WatchWorkstation

Meeting Room

•CORE OBJECTIVES•Develop, Manage and Research the NigeriaWatch database

•Provide ad-hoc data on demand

•Train Researchers and Stakeholders toextract data they need

To compile and monitor data onViolent deaths in order to providestatistics and analyse trends of

fatalities in Nigeria

…how does our team build the database?1) Read and Analyze :- 10 daily newspapers-Reports from official and non-governmental Agencies - Only open sources -

2) Identify & Select all reportedviolent death events

3) Feed the database with the selected events as well as a PDF copy of the source material

This article reporting violent death has been selected

Parts of the article that correspond to specific fields in the database are underlined

A PDF copy of the article is saved to enable future researchers to access the source, verify the information entered in the database and extract new information

To feed the database we extract specific data (Title, LGA, etc.) from the newspaper article and enter them through this mask.

Specific fields

Information entered by our team

How to access the data?

How does the data look like?

How to use Nigeria Watch beyond basicfeatures?

Who can access the data?

How to export data?And also :

Basic features are public and everyone canaccess www.nigeriawatch.org and do a basicsearch

To access more advanced features,researchers can obtained a password from theNigeriawatch webmaster. - Just contact the Nigeria Watch coordinator at

Ibadan… - …and benefit from advanced features such as:

export tables in excel, access copies of all articlesyou need in pdf format, etc…

Home page of the Nigeria WatchWebsite

www.nigeriawatch.org

Access the guidelines

Access the data

Access cartographic representation of data

Access graphs

How to access the data?

Simple, user-friendly search engine

Example of a search

Events found

Events come in the form of a Table which can be exported ss an excel spreadsheet

Prepare your search

Click on display

Click on display

Select LGA

You obtain a map of violence by LGAs

Select

= Map of violence per LGA

1) Use the search engine toRun your query

3) Click on the export button

2) Get your data

Why is this important?

Because it enables researchers to useNigeria Watch to proceed with much more

complex queries

IFRA-Nigeria academic article on victims and targetsof the Boko Haran crisis (Muslims, Christians,

civilians, combatants, etc.)“Religion and body count in the Boko Haram crisis” in Pérouse de Monclos,

M.A., & Chouin, G., Boko Haram: Islamism, Politics, Security and the Statein Nigeria, Ibadan, Leiden: IFRA-Nigeria, ASC, West African Politics andSociety (WAPOSO) Series, forthcoming

“Religion and BodyCount”

“Religion and BodyCount”

Other possible scientific uses:

Gender studies

Land conflicts

Oil issues

Etc.

Nigeria Watch offers training sessions on How to Use the Nigeria Watch

database Helps Generate Statistics and Trend Analyses to Support

your Work. Partners with Organisations to develop focus-research on

a particular subject and deliver specific data analysis IFRA- Nigeria is also:

- A partner that can facilitates and supervises academicprojects between French and Nigerian institutions

- A partner in social sciences and humanities research inEnglish speaking West Africa.

- An interdisciplinary network of researchers specializedin West Africa