Not every project has made it onto GLOW yet, especially as the app expands into new states. Here’s how to add one yourself.
Before you start, gather what you can:
- The project’s name or a clear description (e.g. “borehole at Community Primary School, X Street”)
- The sponsor’s name: if known, the Senator, Representative, State Legislator, or Governor responsible
- The location: state, LGA, and constituency/ward if you know it
- A source, if you have one: a budget document, news article, or official announcement (even a link helps)
Step 1: Go to the Add a Project page and log in if you haven’t already.
Step 2: Fill in what you know. Only a few fields are required, title, sponsor name, sponsor role, and state. Everything else (LGA, budget, source link) is optional, but the more you can fill in, the more useful and credible the listing becomes.
Step 3: Mark your location, if you’re there. If you’re physically at or near the project when you add it, the app can attach your location automatically, this becomes the reference point future citizen reports get checked against, so it’s worth doing if you’re on-site.
Step 4: Submit. Your project goes into a review queue, the same as a report does, before it appears publicly.
Why does the source matter so much? Because it’s the difference between “official record” and “user added”, both are valuable, but they carry different weight. A project sourced from an actual published budget document is independently verifiable by anyone; a project added purely from community knowledge, with no document behind it, still matters (often it’s the only way an otherwise invisible project gets tracked at all) but is honestly labelled as such, so nobody mistakes one for the other.