When government announce development project, approval notice tell only di beginning of di story. Person wey wan follow di money need find wetin dem promise, how much dem don pay out and wetin dem actually deliver. Di part of African Development Bank work wey concern governments come first out of 33 entries for di 2026 Aid Transparency Index wey come out for London on 4 November.
Publish What You Fund give am 98.8 points out of 100, di same score as 2024. Na third edition in a row wey e come first. Na work with governments dem assess here, including loans, grants and technical support. Di index check whether information dey available and how good di information be. Di score no show say every project reach im target.
Di scorecard give full marks for finance and budgets, details wey describe projects and information about results. E find gaps too. For some countries wey di bank get work, current country strategy no dey consistently available. Di assessors also say di policy allow too many broad exceptions to wetin bank must disclose. High total score still leave room for these criticisms.
Person fit check di records. Di bank Independent Recourse Mechanism direct people to MapAfrica. Choose country for di map, then choose project. Di overview show objectives and people wey dem intend make di project benefit. Di finance section get information about money wey dem don pay out, while di results section separate targets from figures wey dem actually report.
One West African example na di Trans-Gambia corridor. Di bank publish report about how di work dey go under project code P-Z1-DB0-046. Di documents cover di bridge and improvements for border. Senegambia Bridge open for January 2019. We show am to explain di kind project person fit trace. E no be new bridge opening.
Wetin e mean for you. If you wan check project wey AfDB support for Nigeria, write down di project code and date on each document. Read di first appraisal together with di latest progress or completion report wey you fit find. Target for di first paper and measured result for di second one answer different questions about di same public investment.