The PIC is implementing a 3-year Mac-Arthur Foundation-funded grant titled ‘Harnessing Behavioural Insight to Improve Transparency in Nigeria’. This project aims to support an ecosystem of state and non-state actors with the capacity and capability to drive behaviourally informed anticorruption reforms across sectors in Nigeria.

This project also seeks to strengthen the capacity of transparency, governance, and accountability organizations in Nigeria through a learning series and the implementation of hands-on behavioural interventions. Based on identified gaps from a training and capacity building needs assessment conducted, the BIL developed a four-phase BI for accountability and transparency curriculum. The BIL team partnered with transparency and accountability experts to co-create and test modular content/curriculum for sector-specific modules. The BIL curriculum development strategy entailed using locally relevant case studies within the Nigerian context.

The BIL led the first Behavioural Insights Transparency/Anti-corruption workshop in June 2022, with over 50 organisations attending (government, civil society, faith-based organisations, development partners, private sectors and media organisations). PIC currently hosts this workshop as an e-course on its Learning Management System (LMS).

As part of the innovative products from our projects, the BIL developed and launched the first Behavioural Insights for Anti-corruption learning management system in Nigeria in 2024. The LMS provides real-time online learning on 4 modules and 50 videos, ranging from behavioural insights fundamentals, understanding corruption, transparency and accountability, monitoring and evaluation for behavioural change and ethics and integrity. You can access this course at https://www.binigeria.com/

In January 2023, the BIL conducted a Randomized Control Study titled ’Addressing Voter Apathy and Vote Selling Behaviour in the 2023 Elections in Lagos and Nassarawa States’. The objective of the RCT was to determine the social and contextual drivers of voter apathy and vote selling in selected states of Nigeria, Additionally, the RCT was to determine the extent to which behavioural change interventions (specialized outreaches, text messaging) could reduce voter apathy and vote selling among targeted community members.