In Nigeria, democratic innovations have been applied as a means to counter political apathy, enhance citizen participation and make government more responsive.
Two locally-led and applied innovations are the Open Forum and the implementation of the OGP process, both functioning as a means for citizen input into government policy. The last innovation presented is the Option A4, which is an innovative open ballot voting system that some parties now use in their primaries to select grassroots candidates.
The “Exploring Worldwide Democratic Innovations” project was supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
This case study was written by Lanre Ikuteyijo.
