Papers by Chijioke . K . Iwuamadi, Ph.D
African Population Studies
African Journal of Business Management, Jun 30, 2010
Energy Research & Social Science
The study is set out to critically examine the New partnership for Africa's Development (NEPA... more The study is set out to critically examine the New partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the challenges of the Millennium Development Goals in the 21st Century. The central research questions that formed the foundation of the study were: Does NEPAD's development strategies fall within development prescriptions of the MDGs? Does NEPAD's stabilization prescription reflect conscious efforts by African leaders to reduce the incidence of poverty? Is NEPAD an alternative to failed development initiatives in Africa? However, to enable us address these puzzles, we designed the following assumptions: The tendency for Africa's received development initiatives to employ modernization strategies appears to institutionalize vicious cycle of underdevelopment in the region. The reliance of developing economies on foreign aids and grants for their development efforts and poverty eradication appears to increase the dependent status of capitalist states. Lastly, we posit that, the inability of African leaders to evolve a home-grown development partnership will likely make NEPAD another failed attempt at Africa's development. "The author can be reached at iwuamadikc@yahoo.com".
This research assesses efforts in fighting corruption in six countries in West Africa with very d... more This research assesses efforts in fighting corruption in six countries in West Africa with very different governance, macroeconomic, sociopolitical, and institutional characteristics: Benin, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.Similar research has been undertaken by the Open Society Foundation's Africa Regional Office in Eastern and Southern Africa. The raison d'être was to carry out a comparative study which would examine the rationale underlying the successes and failures of agencies devoted to the prevention and combating of corruption, with the aim ultimately being to establish ways and means of strengthening anticorruption efforts on the African continent
Journal of Advance Research in Social Science and Humanities (ISSN: 2208-2387), 2021
This study is motivated to investigate health impact of Public Health Strengthening mechanism on ... more This study is motivated to investigate health impact of Public Health Strengthening mechanism on Outcome among selected African countries: Implication on Outbreak in Fragile SSA countries. Specifically looking at the differences in health impacts among selected Sub-Saharan African countries considering its implication on covid-19 outbreak. Employing the panel data estimation technique and the World Bank Indicators (WBI) from 2000 to 2019, across the selected Sub-Saharan African Countries we found that among the mechanism that impact on health, Life expectancy, domestic private health expenditure and health expenditure are among the top opportunities for strengthening public health in SSA countries. The result also, showed that major improvement in health care in most SSA countries is greatly financed by external funding, and domestic private health expenditures. Hence, recommended that legislations may be involved to address the issues of public health care with regards to issues t...
This can s e study is a Department for International Development (UK) and British Academy support... more This can s e study is a Department for International Development (UK) and British Academy supported project, coordinated by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), and carried out in Nigeria by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD). The motivation for this study was to test theoretical debates around decentralisation. On the one hand, some theorists argue that decentralisation should reduce corruption through more accountable and transparent local governance. Others suggest that increased autonomy and proliferation of actors increases opportunities for corruption. Yet on the ground, it is clear that the rentier state system in Nigeria continues to dominate the political economy affairs of the country. Other studies provide ambiguous evidence of the effects of decentralisation on corruption, while the reality of descriptions of the impact of decentralisation on corruption is dependent on broad categories of quality of governance.
Democracy and Security, 2021
ABSTRACT Within the analytic purview of postcolonial feminist theory, this article investigates h... more ABSTRACT Within the analytic purview of postcolonial feminist theory, this article investigates how women leverage their intelligence-gathering capabilities in Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria. Although P/CVE is widely perceived as an androcentric project, the threat posed by violent extremism to global peace and security has heightened the clamor for increased involvement of women in the formulation and implementation of peace and security policies in Africa. In 2000, this clamor gained international recognition and support following the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 which focuses on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). The resolution acknowledges the disproportionate impact of violent conflict on women and recognizes that women empowerment and gender equality are critical to the attainment of sustainable global peace and security. Notwithstanding, most Euro-American and other global frameworks against women victimization tend to accord the contributions of African women in P/CVE an epiphenomenal consideration. While academic discourses focus more closely on the victim-vanguard narratives of women in relation to terrorism and insurgency, the role of women in intelligence gathering for P/CVE has not received the needed attention in the literature. The universalizing posturing and influence of most global frameworks against women victimization hardly account for the role of African women, with their deep knowledge of their homes, families and communities, as invaluable resource for gathering actionable intelligence crucial for effective P/CVE.
African Renaissance, 2020
This study examined how the emergent militia groups in post-Gadhafi Libya shaped the contours of ... more This study examined how the emergent militia groups in post-Gadhafi Libya shaped the contours of migration in the state. The study is anchored on the gate-keeper state theory. The documentary method of data collection was employed while qualitative analysis of data was adopted. The study found that the fall of the Gadhafi regime in 2011 created interstices exploited by local armed militia groups to commoditize migrants in Libya. Again, the armed militia groups served as agents of the three warring governments in Libya for securing their regime/territories and as agents of European countries, particularly Italy, to thwart the flow of irregular migrants to Europe. The commoditization of migrants by militia groups coalesced with the anti-migration strategies adopted by some European countries to create a migration crisis in which an avalanche of irregular migrants became trapped in Libya and was subjected to exploitation and slavery.
This paper examines the upsurge in rural violence in Nigeria occasioned by the activities of arme... more This paper examines the upsurge in rural violence in Nigeria occasioned by the activities of armed herdsmen. Focusing on the 25 April 2016 invasion of Nimbo Community in Enugu State, the paper argues that rural governance de icit and absence of effective security tending mechanisms took a turn for the worse. The major inding is that, beyond the common con lict triggers, the factionalization of a local vigilante in Nimbo bred criminal activities that escalated the tensed milieu. Traditional qualitative method of research was applied. The paper suggests prioritization of rural security in terms of intelligence gathering, response to early con lict warning signals and combat operations, as well as a multi-stakeholder consensus in mapping out mutually-rewarding terms of engagements for the pastoralists and sedentary farmers.
African Journal of Business Management, Jun 30, 2010
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=fdas20, 2021
Within the analytic purview of postcolonial feminist theory, this
article investigates how women ... more Within the analytic purview of postcolonial feminist theory, this
article investigates how women leverage their intelligencegathering
capabilities in Preventing/Countering Violent
Extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria. Although P/CVE is widely perceived
as an androcentric project, the threat posed by violent
extremism to global peace and security has heightened the
clamor for increased involvement of women in the formulation
and implementation of peace and security policies in Africa. In
2000, this clamor gained international recognition and support
following the adoption of the United Nations Security Council
Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 which focuses on Women, Peace and
Security (WPS). The resolution acknowledges the disproportionate
impact of violent conflict on women and recognizes that
women empowerment and gender equality are critical to the
attainment of sustainable global peace and security.
Notwithstanding, most Euro-American and other global frameworks
against women victimization tend to accord the contributions
of African women in P/CVE an epiphenomenal
consideration. While academic discourses focus more closely
on the victim-vanguard narratives of women in relation to
terrorism and insurgency, the role of women in intelligence
gathering for P/CVE has not received the needed attention in
the literature. The universalizing posturing and influence of
most global frameworks against women victimization hardly
account for the role of African women, with their deep knowledge
of their homes, families and communities, as invaluable
resource for gathering actionable intelligence crucial for effective
P/CVE.
African Renaissance, 2020
This study examined how the emergent militia groups in post-Gadhafi Libya shaped the contours of ... more This study examined how the emergent militia groups in post-Gadhafi Libya shaped the contours of migration in the state. The study is anchored on the gate-keeper state theory. The documentary method of data collection was employed while qualitative analysis of data was adopted. The study found that the fall of the Gadhafi regime in 2011 created interstices exploited by local armed militia groups to commoditize migrants in Libya. Again, the armed militia groups served as agents of the three warring governments in Libya for securing their regime/territories and as agents of European countries, particularly Italy, to thwart the flow of irregular migrants to Europe. The commoditization of migrants by militia groups coalesced with the anti-migration strategies adopted by some European countries to create a migration crisis in which an avalanche of irregular migrants became trapped in Libya and was subjected to exploitation and slavery.
African Population Studies, 2021
Journal of Advance Research in Social Science & Humanities, 2021
This study is motivated to investigate health impact of Public Health Strengthening mechanism
on ... more This study is motivated to investigate health impact of Public Health Strengthening mechanism
on Outcome among selected African countries: Implication on Outbreak in Fragile SSA
countries. Specifically looking at the differences in health impacts among selected Sub-
Saharan African countries considering its implication on covid-19 outbreak. Employing the
panel data estimation technique and the World Bank Indicators (WBI) from 2000 to 2019,
across the selected Sub-Saharan African Countries we found that among the mechanism that
impact on health, Life expectancy, domestic private health expenditure and health expenditure
are among the top opportunities for strengthening public health in SSA countries. The result
also, showed that major improvement in health care in most SSA countries is greatly financed
by external funding, and domestic private health expenditures. Hence, recommended that
legislations may be involved to address the issues of public health care with regards to issues
that boarders on accountability on health care facilities procurement among SSA countries.
Also, aids intervention towards health care should be evaluated from time to time by the
funders to minimize the level of public corrupt practices that will lead to aim not been achieved.
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Papers by Chijioke . K . Iwuamadi, Ph.D
article investigates how women leverage their intelligencegathering
capabilities in Preventing/Countering Violent
Extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria. Although P/CVE is widely perceived
as an androcentric project, the threat posed by violent
extremism to global peace and security has heightened the
clamor for increased involvement of women in the formulation
and implementation of peace and security policies in Africa. In
2000, this clamor gained international recognition and support
following the adoption of the United Nations Security Council
Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 which focuses on Women, Peace and
Security (WPS). The resolution acknowledges the disproportionate
impact of violent conflict on women and recognizes that
women empowerment and gender equality are critical to the
attainment of sustainable global peace and security.
Notwithstanding, most Euro-American and other global frameworks
against women victimization tend to accord the contributions
of African women in P/CVE an epiphenomenal
consideration. While academic discourses focus more closely
on the victim-vanguard narratives of women in relation to
terrorism and insurgency, the role of women in intelligence
gathering for P/CVE has not received the needed attention in
the literature. The universalizing posturing and influence of
most global frameworks against women victimization hardly
account for the role of African women, with their deep knowledge
of their homes, families and communities, as invaluable
resource for gathering actionable intelligence crucial for effective
P/CVE.
on Outcome among selected African countries: Implication on Outbreak in Fragile SSA
countries. Specifically looking at the differences in health impacts among selected Sub-
Saharan African countries considering its implication on covid-19 outbreak. Employing the
panel data estimation technique and the World Bank Indicators (WBI) from 2000 to 2019,
across the selected Sub-Saharan African Countries we found that among the mechanism that
impact on health, Life expectancy, domestic private health expenditure and health expenditure
are among the top opportunities for strengthening public health in SSA countries. The result
also, showed that major improvement in health care in most SSA countries is greatly financed
by external funding, and domestic private health expenditures. Hence, recommended that
legislations may be involved to address the issues of public health care with regards to issues
that boarders on accountability on health care facilities procurement among SSA countries.
Also, aids intervention towards health care should be evaluated from time to time by the
funders to minimize the level of public corrupt practices that will lead to aim not been achieved.
article investigates how women leverage their intelligencegathering
capabilities in Preventing/Countering Violent
Extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria. Although P/CVE is widely perceived
as an androcentric project, the threat posed by violent
extremism to global peace and security has heightened the
clamor for increased involvement of women in the formulation
and implementation of peace and security policies in Africa. In
2000, this clamor gained international recognition and support
following the adoption of the United Nations Security Council
Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 which focuses on Women, Peace and
Security (WPS). The resolution acknowledges the disproportionate
impact of violent conflict on women and recognizes that
women empowerment and gender equality are critical to the
attainment of sustainable global peace and security.
Notwithstanding, most Euro-American and other global frameworks
against women victimization tend to accord the contributions
of African women in P/CVE an epiphenomenal
consideration. While academic discourses focus more closely
on the victim-vanguard narratives of women in relation to
terrorism and insurgency, the role of women in intelligence
gathering for P/CVE has not received the needed attention in
the literature. The universalizing posturing and influence of
most global frameworks against women victimization hardly
account for the role of African women, with their deep knowledge
of their homes, families and communities, as invaluable
resource for gathering actionable intelligence crucial for effective
P/CVE.
on Outcome among selected African countries: Implication on Outbreak in Fragile SSA
countries. Specifically looking at the differences in health impacts among selected Sub-
Saharan African countries considering its implication on covid-19 outbreak. Employing the
panel data estimation technique and the World Bank Indicators (WBI) from 2000 to 2019,
across the selected Sub-Saharan African Countries we found that among the mechanism that
impact on health, Life expectancy, domestic private health expenditure and health expenditure
are among the top opportunities for strengthening public health in SSA countries. The result
also, showed that major improvement in health care in most SSA countries is greatly financed
by external funding, and domestic private health expenditures. Hence, recommended that
legislations may be involved to address the issues of public health care with regards to issues
that boarders on accountability on health care facilities procurement among SSA countries.
Also, aids intervention towards health care should be evaluated from time to time by the
funders to minimize the level of public corrupt practices that will lead to aim not been achieved.