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Founded in 2016, YMonitor highlights crucial accountability issues both at the Federal, State, and Local Government level. YMonitor accountability project is an initiative under The Future Project (TFP), a developmental organization dedicated to building a network of empowered citizens – through jobs, entrepreneurship and active citizenship.
The project has provided critical information to citizens who have stimulated them towards demanding good governance. YMonitor infographics on local government, critical national statistics, allocation to state and local government are user-friendly and have increased citizens’ awareness of government data.
To complement our project YMonitor’s advocacy using infographics, the project began implementing the data satire projects. Critical national issues and data were represented in a cartoon like satirical form to drag people’s attention and call the government out. A special portal was created on the YMonitor website for this and our Instagram handles are being used to promote the satires. We have 100,000 engagements on the websites, and 20,000 engagements on our social media handles.
Through our YMonitor Accountability Project, as well as online and offline activities, we have effectively monitored, tracked, and provided useful information to members of the public on issues crucial to governance in the last four years.
Through engaging with visitors on our website, and initiating projects which bridge the gap between young people and public service holders. This further exposed them to important public accountability matters while urging them to participate and take actionable steps.
The YMonitor quarterly debate show continues to be a leading voice in youth advocacy, giving young people a credible platform to debate trending national issues thereby setting the agenda for national discourse. The show is broadcast live on channels TV, a 13-time best TV station of the year in Nigeria, with a viewership that ranges between 6million to 10 million people on Terrestrial Cable and Sky News UK.
With the YMonitor Pothole tracker implemented in three states, Lagos, Ogun and Oyo, the project has become a credible source of first-hand information on the state of roads within these three states. The innovative nature of the project which differentiates it from every such advocacy is based on the fact that it is concentrated on the first stage of road damage or disrepair before complete deterioration.
The project has reported potholes in more than hundred communities across these three states, apart from these, it has drawn the attention of the government in these respective states to the state of these roads, some of