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Akin Fadeyi Foundation

Abuja, Nigeria
  • Grants
    5
  • Total Awarded
    $1,328,500
  • Years
    2017 - 2023
  • Categories
    On Nigeria

Grants

2023 ( 7 months)
$50,000

The Akin Fadeyi Foundation is a nonprofit organization that uses communications, media, and technology to help combat corruption and promote social change in Nigeria. This award supports a first-ever behavior change summit in Nigeria in 2023 that brings together relevant stakeholders, including civil society organizations, faith-based organizations, donor partners, researchers, and policymakers. The summit provides a collaborative platform to showcase the work of the On Nigeria behavior change cohort, create partnerships, and generate ideas to sustain anti-corruption efforts beyond the end of the program in 2024.

2021 ( 6 months)
$25,000

Established in 2016, the Akin Fadeyi Foundation is a nonprofit organization that uses communications, media, and technology to ensure that Nigerians live fulfilling lives and can use their human and social capital to the full extent. The organization developed the corruption reporting app, FlagIt, which has been adopted by several government agencies. With this X-Grant, the Akin Fadeyi Foundation team is conducting limited user research on the app to improve user experience, security, and privacy. It is also upgrading the app to collect audio and video reports of corruption. The award will improve the app's functionality and security so that it may be adapted and adopted by other government agencies, universities, and interested parties.

2021 (3 years)
$674,000

Established in 2016, the Akin Fadeyi Foundation is a nonprofit organization that uses communications, media, and technology to ensure that Nigerians live fulfilling lives and can use their human and social capital to the full extent. The organization focuses on anti-corruption, development, and poverty relief. With a previous award, the organization created the FlagIt corruption-reporting app, developed partnerships with public agencies around the use of the app, and created a series of video skits and radio and television programs to discourage acts of corruption and encourage people to report corruption on the app. With this final award, the Akin Fadeyi Foundation continues to develop and strengthen partnerships with public agencies, enhance the app and bring in new users, and produce anti-corruption videos. This award is expected to contribute to On Nigeria’s goal of reducing corruption and strengthening accountability, transparency, and participation.

2020 ( 3 months)
$43,500

With this X-Grant, the Akin Fadeyi Foundation, a non-profit organization in Nigeria, is translating public health sensitization videos about COVID-19 into Igbo, Yoruba, and Pidgin English, and producing a video in Hausa. Videos are intended to raise awareness about practices to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

2017 (3 years 5 months)
$536,000

Established in 2016, the Akin Fadeyi Foundation is a nonprofit organization that uses communications, media, and technology to ensure that Nigerians live fulfilling lives and can use their human and social capital to the full extent. The organization focuses on anti-corruption, development, poverty relief, and environmental projection. With this award, the Akin Fadeyi Foundation is producing anti-corruption videos, a television series, and a mobile application. The project contributes to On Nigeria’s goal of reducing corruption by building an atmosphere of accountability, transparency, and good governance in Nigeria.