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What is Nigeria Watch? How do we work? What could we build together?

With funding from :

 An online data base compiling violent deaths in

Nigeria since 2006 (www.nigeriawatch.org)

 A project funded by the DFID/British Council through

the NSRP Project since the signature of a MoU on the 1st of February 2013

 A project housed by the French Institute for Research

in Africa (IFRA-Nigeria), a research institution based at the University of Ibadan since 1990

 A group of 4 full-time Nigerian researchers and

information retrieval specialists backed by a team of French social scientists

 A Component of the NSRP project and a member of

the Peace and Security Working Group for Nigeria

• Prof. Marc-Antoine Perouse

de Montclos, University of Paris 8, Scientific Director

• Dr. Adeola Adams

Project Coordinator Afeno Super Odomovo Deputy Coordinator Abiola V. Ayodokun Information Retrieval Specialist Vitus Ukoji Information Retrieval Specialist Gerard Chouin IFRA-Nigeria, Director Scientific supervisor Manuel Reinert IFRA-Nigeria Research Associate Deputy Scientific Supervisor

IFRA-Nigeria is hosted by the Institute of African Studies, University

• f Ibadan

Nigeria Watch Office Located at IFRA-Nigeria’s Annex 9 Parry Road University of Ibadan

Seminar Room IFRA-Nigeria Annex University of Ibadan Nigeria Watch Workstation Meeting Room

• CORE OBJECTIVES
• Develop, Manage and Research the Nigeria

Watch database

• Provide ad-hoc data on demand
• Train Researchers and Stakeholders to

extract data they need

 To compile and monitor data on

Violent deaths in order to provide statistics 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 reported violent 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? Who can access the data? How to export data?

And also :

 Basic features are public and everyone can

access www.nigeriawatch.org and do a basic search

 To access more advanced features,

researchers can obtained a password from the Nigeriawatch webmaster.

 - Just contact the Nigeria Watch coordinator at

Ibadan…

 - …and benefit from advanced features such as:

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

Home page of the Nigeria Watch Website 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 to Run your query 3) Click on the export button 2) Get your data Why is this important? Because it enables researchers to use Nigeria Watch to proceed with much more complex queries

IFRA-Nigeria academic article on victims and targets

• f 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 State in Nigeria, Ibadan, Leiden: IFRA-Nigeria, ASC, West African Politics and Society (WAPOSO) Series, forthcoming

“Religion and Body Count”

“Religion and Body Count”

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 academic

projects between French and Nigerian institutions

• A partner in social sciences and humanities research in

English speaking West Africa.

• An interdisciplinary network of researchers specialized

in West Africa