What is Nigeria Watch? How do we work? What could we build - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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 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

Abiola V. Ayodokun Dr. Adeola Adams Information Retrieval Project Coordinator Specialist Gerard Chouin IFRA-Nigeria, Director Scientific supervisor Prof. Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos , University of Paris 8, Scientific Director Manuel Reinert IFRA-Nigeria Research Associate Deputy Scientific Supervisor Afeno Super Odomovo Vitus Ukoji Deputy Coordinator Information Retrieval Specialist

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

 To compile and monitor data on Violent deaths in order to provide statistics and analyse trends of fatalities in Nigeria • 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

…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

A PDF copy of the article is saved to enable future researchers to access Parts of the article that correspond This article reporting violent the source, verify the information entered to specific fields in the database death has been selected in the database and extract new information are underlined

Information entered by our team To feed the database we extract specific data (Title, LGA, etc.) from Specific the newspaper article and enter fields them through this mask.

Who can access the data? How to access the data? How does the data look like? 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…

How to access the data? Home page of the Nigeria Watch Website www.nigeriawatch.org Access the guidelines Access the data Access graphs Access cartographic representation of 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

Select LGA Select = Map of violence per LGA You obtain a map of violence by LGAs Click on display

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

IFRA-Nigeria academic article on victims and targets of 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