Muazu Alhaji Modu

Board Member

Muazu Alhaji Modu is an activist and social entrepreneur. He has over eight years of experience in civic engagement, specializing in social accountability, democracy and governance, peace building and climate action. He is Founder and Executive Director of Spotlight for Transparency and Accountability Initiative (ST&A), a non-governmental organization whose mission is to empower and work with communities to demand accountability, improve service delivery, and promote democratic governance using technology through her initiative Citizen-led Tracking. Muazu founded ST&A upon his return Mandela Washington Fellowship in 2018.
Citizen-led tracking started in October 2019 leveraging technology has impacted over 1.2 million rural lives in 200 marginalized communities in Northeastern Nigeria. In 2022, Citizen-led tracking emerged as one of the finalists for the Young Global Changers Recoupling by Global Solution Initiative in Berlin, Germany. A finalist for the 2021 African Civic Action Prize by Africtivites in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Top 20 Best Innovation on Democracy and Governance by African Union, 30 Most Inspiring Digital Innovation on SDGs by Portos's Spindle in the Netherlands and 2022 emerged winner of maiden Active Citizen Award, Award for Civic Activism category by BudgIT in Lagos, Nigeria.
Muazu and his team after 2023 general election for the first time in the history of Nigeria compile and publish name, picture, age, constituency, disability status, tenure of all 994 house of assembly members across 36 states of Nigeria to empower citizen to demand accountability form subnational parliament in Nigerian and launch Beyond The Ballot Nigeria to increase transparency and citizen engagement in the subnational parliament in Nigeria.
Muazu is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow, he is also a 2021 African Civic Engagement Academy, University of Georgia alumni. A 2021 Ashoka Changemakers Everywhere Academy Alumni and 2022 Young Global Changers by the Global Solution Initiative. Muazu name among 100 most impact African 2023 by Global Humanitarian Award