This project funded by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa was designed to assess pre-election activities, programs and policies of the government in the political/governance and economic sectors using a human rights-based approach and generate lessons and insights to set a post-election policy agenda for the incoming national government.

The BiNTA Fellowship is a behavioural reengineering initiative of the PIC's Behavioural Innovation Lab aimed at strengthening anti-corruption changemakers' capacity to leverage behavioural insights in disrupting the socially normative status of corruption in Nigeria. With funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the inaugural edition of the fellowship is supporting thirty fellows to conceptualize, design and execute behaviorally informed strategies to address corruption.

This project will provide concrete guidance to implementing agencies on considering the intersectional nature of anti-corruption target populations to increase durable behaviour change. Specifically, it will explore how gender and faith norms interact with social norms that drive corrupt patterns of behaviours within specific reference groups and reinforce inequity and exclusion or inhibit anti-corruption action. The Corruption, Justice and Legitimacy Program (CJL) at Besa Global, in partnership with the Policy Innovation Centre is implementing this research project.

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).