A crisis of trust: history, politics, religion and the polio controversy in Northern Nigeria

Obadare, Ebenezer

doi:10.1080/00313220500198185

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“…It is important to understand the context; this was a region involved in a disagreement few years before over the safety of polio vaccines, pitting community and Islamic leaders against the WHO, UN, UNICEF, and Federal authorities over fears that polio vaccines were a weapon by Western and international powers (52). The dominant logic from the state was that the system needed to be owned and controlled by the state, and that ownership would lead to sustainability (and perhaps more trust in the system).…”

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Understanding HMIS Implementation in a Developing Country Ministry of Health Context - an Institutional Logics Perspective

Asangansi¹

2012

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Globally, health management information systems (HMIS) have been hailed as important tools for health reform (1). However, their implementation has become a major challenge for researchers and practitioners because of the significant proportion of failure of implementation efforts (2; 3). Researchers have attributed this significant failure of HMIS implementation, in part, to the complexity of meeting with and satisfying multiple (poorly understood) logics in the implementation process.This paper focuses on exploring the multiple logics, including how they may conflict and affect the HMIS implementation process. Particularly, I draw on an institutional logics perspective to analyze empirical findings from an action research project, which involved HMIS implementation in a state government Ministry of Health in (Northern) Nigeria. The analysis highlights the important HMIS institutional logics, where they conflict and how they are resolved.I argue for an expanded understanding of HMIS implementation that recognizes various institutional logics that participants bring to the implementation process, and how these are inscribed in the decision making process in ways that may be conflicting, and increasing the risk of failure. Furthermore, I propose that the resolution of conflicting logics can be conceptualized as involving deinstitutionalization, changeover resolution or dialectical resolution mechanisms. I conclude by suggesting that HMIS implementation can be improved by implementation strategies that are made based on an understanding of these conflicting logics.

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Understanding HMIS Implementation in a Developing Country Ministry of Health Context - an Institutional Logics Perspective

Asangansi¹

2012

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“…Working 'off the record': scrap paper accounting In contrast to the widely publicized stories of resistance to polio vaccination in northern Nigeria (Obadare 2005, Renne 2006, Yahya 2007, there is no organized response to the vaccination campaigns in Chad. Parents rarely verbalize refusal; instead, they employ tactics such as evasion or obfuscation to circumvent vaccinators' efforts to administer the drops.…”

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Working ‘off the record’: polio eradication and state immunity in Chad

Leonard

2011

Critical Public Health

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“…This is especially important in societies where hierarchical relations in families, groups, and community settings tend to play significant roles, such as in Africa. Obadare (2005), for example, identified the role culture and traditional leadership played in the distrust accompanying the polio controversy in northern Nigeria.…”

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Trust and the Breakdown of Civil Order in Nigeria's Delta Region: Evidence from Historical Conflict Episodes

Oyefusi

2009

The Round Table

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This article examines the concept of trust in the context of resource extraction, focusing on the moral and statutory responsibilities of the state, extractive firms, and host communities, and using Nigeria's Niger Delta as a case study. It attributes ongoing oil-related unrest to the breakdown of trust between these parties. Using a combination of primary and secondary data, it links outbreaks of violence to the failure of the state to foster development, create an enabling environment for economic growth in communities, and build rational institutions for peaceful and sustainable resource extraction; oil companies' exploitation of weaknesses in existing institutional arrangements to promote selfish interests; communities' almost-total dependence on companies for the provision of public goods and employment; and the collapse of trust between communities and between various groups and individuals in the region. To address conflict outbreaks, restore and build trust between parties, it recommends some institutional reforms and policy changes in the oil industry and beyond.

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A crisis of trust: history, politics, religion and the polio controversy in Northern Nigeria

Cited by 86 publications

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Understanding HMIS Implementation in a Developing Country Ministry of Health Context - an Institutional Logics Perspective

Understanding HMIS Implementation in a Developing Country Ministry of Health Context - an Institutional Logics Perspective

Working ‘off the record’: polio eradication and state immunity in Chad

Trust and the Breakdown of Civil Order in Nigeria's Delta Region: Evidence from Historical Conflict Episodes

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