The civic engagement drive was implemented in collaboration with two separate partner organizations at different times. One such partnership was with the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI).

The partnership with YALI- Abuja Chapter leveraged on the organization’s contribution to governance and civic engagement, through their #9jaVotes campaign- a campaign that seeks to increase voter awareness and participation, encourages the Nigerian youth to vote with integrity, to display truth and accuracy in information sharing and inspires communities to reject violence.

The medium for running this campaign was through the creation of media content and a hike campaign. For the media content, we produced 4 advocacy videos and partnered in hosting a sensitization hike held in conjunction with a health and wellness social enterprise called The Outdoor Tribe. The hike held at Dutse in Abuja.

These were the action steps we took;  

• Similar to the partnership with JCI, we adopted the mapping results of various LGAs in FCT and selected Bwari and AMAC LGAs drawing from our research and needs analysis for the Relief Hub project.
• We shot three one-minute videos of randomly selected individuals. In each voter’s video, they highlighted the three most important needs they wanted to direct the focus of the incoming government towards.
• We also devised a survey for Nigerian citizens in order to generate data that captured the level of voters participation (measured by citizens who had their PVC and were willing to vote) and the three basic needs they seek the incoming government’s attention on.   
• The next line of action was to initiate correspondence with YALI through e-mails and virtual meetings to establish a working partnership.
• Following the agreed partnership, we worked together to distribute the campaign content across various social media channels.