The MacArthur Foundation’s Big Bet on Nigeria programme supported Nigerian-led efforts to reduce corruption by promoting transparency, participation, and accountability.
The programme supported collaboration, capacity building, and – in alignment with the Foundation’s Just Imperative – the application of a gender equity and social inclusion (GESI) lens. Between 2015 and 2024, On Nigeria awarded 340 grants worth $154.1 million to 135 organizations across two programming phases: On Nigeria 1.0 (2016-2019) and On Nigeria 2.0 (2020-2024).
Our role
As the Evaluation and Learning Partner for On Nigeria, our team guided the co-creation of the program’s strategy, theory of change, and learning framework.
For more than five years, we have deployed developmental and participatory approaches to engage the client, partners, and grantees in making sense of emerging evidence, identifying challenges and lessons, and making strategic adaptations based on data and insights. In this work, we have produced 22 impact and learning studies for the Foundation and its partners, implementing a series of participatory sensemaking and strategic learning events for each.
As of mid 2025, our team is in the final stages of completing a mixed methods, complexity-aware, and context-sensitive evaluation to assess the program’s contribution to the anticorruption and accountability landscape in Nigeria.
The final evaluation will be presented to the foundation’s board in December 2025, and inform a new program of work in Nigeria from 2026.
Outcomes and impact
All learning and impact studies produced during our partnership with the MacArthur Foundation are available on the MacArthur Foundation’s website.
