Governance indicators that are aligned with local ambitions of justice and safety have the potential to improve the existing global indicator framework. In this video, Selen Siringil Perker illustrates how locally designed and owned indicators can complement global indicators through a comparison of a popular global indicator of pretrial detention with a local indicator designed in Nigeria during PCJ’s Indicators in Development: Justice and Safety project.

Watch the video on YouTube.

• For a detailed account of the indicators, research methods, and findings in Nigeria, read Prison Exit Samples as a Source for Indicators of Pretrial Detention

• For a discussion of PCJ’s approach to aligning governance indicators with domestic ambitions of justice and safety, watch the video, Aligning Governance Indicators with Local Ambitions of Justice and Safety

• Watch more videos in Developing Governance Indicators in Justice and Safety: A Country-Led Approach video series

• PCJ Toolkit, a self-directed guide to indicator development in justice and safety.