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Tracka — BudgIT's Community Project-Tracking Platform

Nigeria · Lagos · See the Nigeria profile · See the Lagos profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 83% 52/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Since 2014, BudgIT's Tracka has enabled Nigerian citizens to monitor public capital projects on the ground, expanding from 6 to 32 states and logging over 17,800 tracked interventions, though outcome figures remain self-reported rather than independently audited.

32 of 36 + FCT
States covered
17,800+
Monitored zonal intervention projects logged
3,500+
Documented citizen success stories
Tracka — BudgIT's Community Project-Tracking Platform

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
BudgIT Foundation
Period
2014–present
Keywords
civic tech, budget transparency, public project monitoring, accountability

Context

Tracka is a civic-technology platform launched in 2014 by the BudgIT Foundation, a Lagos-based nonprofit, letting citizens monitor implementation of government-funded capital projects (roads, clinics, boreholes) via SMS and a web/app interface.

Activities

BudgIT deployed a network of Project Tracking Officers who verify projects on-site; coverage expanded from an initial 6 states to 32 of Nigeria's 36 states plus the Federal Capital Territory.

Results

BudgIT reports that Tracka and its sister accountability tools have logged more than 17,800 monitored zonal intervention projects and over 3,500 documented citizen success stories.

Conclusions

Independent academic coverage corroborates BudgIT's role in Nigeria's civic-tech and budget-transparency ecosystem but does not itself supply an independently audited counterfactual for Tracka's project-completion claims.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
BudgIT Foundation, network of Project Tracking Officers verifying projects on-site

Conditions for success

  • on-the-ground verification network (Project Tracking Officers) rather than relying on self-reported citizen data alone
  • multi-channel reporting (SMS plus web/app)

Common failure modes

  • headline figures are BudgIT's own self-reported monitoring data rather than a third-party evaluation

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