The International Centre for Investigative Reporting, Abuja has announced the end of its Open Contract Reporting Project, which started in 2017.
The Executive Director of the ICIR, Dayo Aiyetan, made the announcement on Thursday in a statement he issued on the event.
Supported with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the Open Contract Reporting Project aimed at building the capacity of the Nigerian media to report critically on budgetary and procurement processes and all levels of government to promote transparency and accountability.
During the seven years of the project, the ICIR trained over 300 journalists from scores of newsrooms across the country.
More than 500 investigative reports have been published as a result of the training, with many of them winning awards.
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Aiyetan said the ICIR will be marking “the end of this very impactful project” with a public even scheduled for December 10 at The Pearl Hotel, Jabi, Abuja, with activities, including a keynote address, titled: “Combating Corruption in Nigeria: The imperative of Starting with Procurement Fraud.”
The address is to be delivered by the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu.
This will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Joe Abah, with Hamza Lawal, Chief Executive Officer of Connected Development; Lucy Abagi, Chief Executive Officer of Public and Private Development Centre; Gabriel Okeowo, Country Director, BudgIT; Victoria Bamas, Editor of ICIR; and Khadija Bawas, a development journalist, as panellists.
The event will also witness an award ceremony to journalists who have done courageous and outstanding investigative reports in the seven years of the project.
The ICIR will also unveil a data dashboard, tagged: “Investigative Reports and Impact Dashboard,” a dashboard with information and data on contracts, contractors, Freedom of Information Act requests, and impact stories from the OCRP.
The International Centre for Investigative Reporting is an independent, non-profit investigative reporting news organisation which aims to use watchdog reporting to promote transparency and accountability in Nigeria.
The Centre’s chief mission is to popularise a culture of investigative reporting across newsrooms in Nigeria by building the capacity of journalists to do incisive, watchdog reporting that holds power to account.
The ICIR is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism network.
It runs its own investigative journalism news website: @ www.icirnigeria.org, as well as a fact checking website: www.factchechhub.com, which is a member of the International Fact Checking Network.
Event Details:
Date: December 10, 2024
Time: 10am
Venue: The Pearl Hotel, Jabi.
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