Temilade Sesan
University of Ibadan Nigeria, Economics, Faculty Member
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Research Interests: Business, Primary Care, Primary Health Care, Performance Management, Community Participation, and 9 moreNigeria, Humans, Staffing, Personnel Management, Health Policy and Planning, Public Administration and Policy, Public health systems and services research, COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, and Quality of health care
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The imbalance in the global scientific landscape resulting from the enduring legacy of colonialism in the south and the hegemony of scientific paradigms originating in the north is immense. Our paper makes a case for employing traditional... more
The imbalance in the global scientific landscape resulting from the enduring legacy of colonialism in the south and the hegemony of scientific paradigms originating in the north is immense. Our paper makes a case for employing traditional knowledge systems and paradigms as tools for redressing this imbalance in African societies. To achieve this goal, the paper argues, scholars and science communicators must actively pursue a radical, “power-literate” agenda of scientific decolonisation on the continent. Central to this mission is the need for scholars to be equipped with a keen sense of the past — including an understanding of what worked for knowledge production and perpetuation in pre-colonial African societies — without which science education and communication in those societies will remain untethered from the realities of the present and their visions for the future. Concurrently, attention must be given to nurturing home-grown paradigms and platforms for research in higher ed...
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The poster presents approaches to policy making based on research evidence. It uses energy policy as an example, depicting how to break down workable approaches to building public policy, including the agenda setting phase and the... more
The poster presents approaches to policy making based on research evidence. It uses energy policy as an example, depicting how to break down workable approaches to building public policy, including the agenda setting phase and the adoption vs. implementation gap
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Expanding and improving electricity access for rural communities through various options is the primary objective of the rural electrification policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria. This is essentially to enhance agriculture,... more
Expanding and improving electricity access for rural communities through various options is the primary objective of the rural electrification policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria. This is essentially to enhance agriculture, industrial, commercial and other economic and social activities and promote the use of domestic electrical appliances that will reduce the drudgery of households tasks typically allocated to women in the rural areas. This is to be acheived through a Rural Electrification Fund (REF) that will be used to provide subsidy grant on capital investment. However, this policy intervention can have differentiated impacts on men and women. Thus, this study assesses the potential impacts of this government policy intervention on the rural development using a gender-aware modelling approach. It extended the 2010 Nigerian Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) to make it genderfocused and applied it to a gender CGE model. Findings show that an increase in electricity supply du...
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Efforts to replace traditional energy sources with modern ones in developing countries have met with limited success. A new study sheds light on some of the contextual factors that inhibit this shift as well as opportunities for nudging... more
Efforts to replace traditional energy sources with modern ones in developing countries have met with limited success. A new study sheds light on some of the contextual factors that inhibit this shift as well as opportunities for nudging poor households in the desired direction.
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Around 2.7 billion people globally and 80% of households in Sub-Saharan Africa rely on solid biomass fuels for cooking and heating. This results in high levels of exposure to household air pollution (HAP); the second most common cause of... more
Around 2.7 billion people globally and 80% of households in Sub-Saharan Africa rely on solid biomass fuels for cooking and heating. This results in high levels of exposure to household air pollution (HAP); the second most common cause of death in eastern, central and western sub-Saharan Africa. Top-down technology-oriented initiatives seeking to promote the uptake of »improved« cookstoves (ICS) have had limited success to date. Drawing on participatory cooking events in the UK, Malawi and Zambia plus in-depth field-based research in Nigeria, we discuss our use of participatory engagement activities that gave voice to (and encourage emic understandings of) end-user priorities regarding fuel and cookstove use. We argue that such approaches can be effective in promoting two-way knowledge sharing between ICS producers, promoters and end-users. We also suggest that community-wide participatory approaches used in sanitation initiatives have potential to be adapted within ICS interventions...
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The roundtable was convened by Temilade Sesan as part of an action research project aimed at understanding and expanding the contribution of scientific evidence, or science advice, to policymaking in Nigeria’s household energy sector.... more
The roundtable was convened by Temilade Sesan as part of an action research project aimed at understanding and expanding the contribution of scientific evidence, or science advice, to policymaking in Nigeria’s household energy sector. Household energy is defined here as energy for basic services (i.e., cooking and electrification), as distinct from energy for productive and other uses. The roundtable was preceded by a workshop, held in June 2018, to discuss participants’ experiences of evidence use (or non-use) in their everyday jobs as technical officers and decision makers (a summary of the workshop deliberations can be made available to stakeholders on request). Both forums were funded by a grant from the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA), administered in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (Canada) and the International Science Council.
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Rising rates of urbanisation in Africa, without attendant improvements in critical infrastructure, have occasioned gaps in the provision of basic services in cities across the continent. Different systems and scales of service delivery —... more
Rising rates of urbanisation in Africa, without attendant improvements in critical infrastructure, have occasioned gaps in the provision of basic services in cities across the continent. Different systems and scales of service delivery — decentralised and centralised, public and private — coexist and often compete in urban spaces but rarely connect in ways that ensure the needs of the poorest are met. Our paper interrogates the value of transdisciplinary research for bringing actors in these systems together to co-produce knowledge for inclusive and sustainable outcomes. Drawing on empirical data from two complementary projects in four African cities, we demonstrate the possibilities for facilitating this kind of knowledge co-production among system actors in the food, water and energy domains. We show, through a comparative approach, elements of the co-production process that enable more responsive engagement by traditionally detached policy actors. From our findings, we generate a...
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Energy has been a key focus of government policy in Nigeria for decades, yet little improvement has been seen in rates of access among the population. Our paper assesses the inputs to policymaking in this context and interrogates the role... more
Energy has been a key focus of government policy in Nigeria for decades, yet little improvement has been seen in rates of access among the population. Our paper assesses the inputs to policymaking in this context and interrogates the role of scientific evidence and knowledge co-production in the process. Through key informant interviews and participatory workshops with stakeholders, we addressed the practical question of how to strengthen the contribution of evidence to national energy policymaking processes. Two windows of opportunity were identified for this: the critical stage of problem definition; and the time lag between policy adoption and implementation. By engaging proactively with policymakers on these fronts, academic researchers working in knowledge co-production arrangements can make quick inroads into a policy space that has largely excluded them to date. This case is instructive for academics and knowledge brokers in similar contexts where a diminished status for scie...
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Within the domain of public health, commonalities exist between the sanitation and cookstove sectors. Despite these commonalities and the grounds established for cross-learning between both sectors, however, there has not been much... more
Within the domain of public health, commonalities exist between the sanitation and cookstove sectors. Despite these commonalities and the grounds established for cross-learning between both sectors, however, there has not been much evidence of knowledge exchange across them to date. Our paper frames this as a missed opportunity for the cookstove sector, given the capacity for user-centred innovation and multi-scale approaches demonstrated in the sanitation sector. The paper highlights points of convergence and divergence in the approaches used in both sectors, with particular focus on behaviour change approaches that go beyond the level of the individual. The analysis highlights the importance of the enabling environment, community-focused approaches and locally specific contextual factors in promoting behavioural change in the sanitation sector. Our paper makes a case for the application of such approaches to cookstove interventions, especially in light of their ability to drive su...