Build a Community Land Rights Tracker for Mining-Affected Villages in the Niger Delta

In states like Rivers, Bayelsa, and Delta, extractive companies negotiate compensation deals with community leaders, but ordinary residents rarely see the paperwork. When those deals are broken or disputed, communities have almost nothing to show. Verbal agreements, scattered receipts, and missing survey maps leave villages at a serious disadvantage. Your job is to design a community-facing tracking tool, not a polished app for lawyers, but something a village secretary or youth group can actually maintain. Think paper-based forms that feed into a WhatsApp log, a simple spreadsheet dashboard, or an offline-first mobile form using KoboToolbox or ODK. The tool should capture: what land was acquired, when, by whom, what compensation was promised, what was paid, and who to contact if things go wrong. The deliverable is a functional prototype or detailed design spec, plus a one-page guide written in plain English (and optionally Ijaw or Urhobo) explaining how a community without technical support would use it. Include at least one example scenario showing the tool in use. Strong work will show you have thought about who actually holds this data at the community level, what happens when the village chief is also in the company's pocket, and how the tool survives a change in community leadership. The best submissions will be honest about what the tool cannot solve.