Aminata's Favorite Aspect of Nigeria’s Tobacco Control Data Initiative Dashboard
Channel: Development Gateway: An IREX Venture
Date: 2022-07-01

Development Gateway’s Aminata Camara Badji and Seember Ali discuss Aminata’s favorite part of Nigeria’s Tobacco Control Data Initiative Dashboard, which launched June 28, 2022. 

Since 2019, Development Gateway has collaborated with University of Cape Town’s Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (REEP) to address barriers to data use in tobacco control by consolidating available and trusted tobacco control data, identifying and filling data gaps, and creating an online resource for policymakers to access the relevant data needed to pass and monitor tobacco control legislation. These findings have come together through TCDI, which is supported in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented in South Africa in addition to  the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia.

The website will feature six themes: tobacco prevalence, tobacco harm, illicit trade, taxation, industry interference, and shisha use. The website will be updated with new information as this becomes available over the course of the program.

Visit the Dashboard: https://nigeria.tobaccocontroldata.org/en
More about TCDI: go.developmentgateway.org/tcdi