Buharimeter is conceptualised to address the challenges of governance, civic participation and effective service delivery in Nigeria. The central focus of this initiative is to bridge existing gap between the government and the governed thereby facilitating a process through which democratic accountability becomes the norm. It is a platform to ensure that the dividends of democracy are delivered to Nigerians who overwhelmingly voted for change during the 2015 general elections.

Through Buharimeter, civil society groups, citizens, the media, academia, practitioners, political parties and other stakeholders will have access to reports on the status of the implementation of promises made by President Muhammadu Buhari. This is because all the promises made by the current government are documented in different sectors for easy identification.

The performance of the government will be measured using three interrelated approaches. First, through different web-based applications, the general public will have the opportunity to make contributions to discussions, comment on policy pronouncements of the government in achieving its set targets, participate in periodic surveys, and suggest priority areas that require urgent attention. Second, through rigorous policy and media monitoring exercise, policy statements will be acquired, analysed and used as basis for gauging the performance of the government. This will be complemented by the third approach which is spot-checks of projects and programmes being implemented by the government.

All these form an analytical framework for measuring the status of the promises made by the government. The report of this process will feed into a monitoring and evaluation strategy that will show the overall status of the progress made by the government in fulfilling these promises. While the intervention will be critical of government’s policy options to achieve set goals, Buharimeter will also endeavour to provide alternative framework where necessary.

The project is designed to ensure that citizens contribute in deepening democracy in Nigeria. Therefore, participation in the programme is a key indicator that citizens are ready to engage President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration in another level of democratic accountability in Nigeria.

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