TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nuesiri, Emmanuel O.
T1  - Feigning Democracy
BT  - Performing Representation in the UN-REDD Funded Nigeria-REDD Programme
JF  - Conservation & society
N2  - Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation plus the sustainable management of forest and enhancement of carbon stocks (REDD+) is a global climate change mitigation initiative. The United Nations REDD Programme (UN-REDD) is training governments in developing countries, including Nigeria, to implement REDD+. To protect local people, UN-REDD has developed social safeguards including a commitment to strengthen local democracy to prevent an elite capture of REDD+ benefits. This study examines local participation and representation in the UN-REDD international policy board and in the national-level design process for the Nigeria-REDD proposal, to see if practices are congruent with the UN-REDD commitment to local democracy. It is based on research in Nigeria in 2012 and 2013, and finds that local representation in the UN-REDD policy board and in Nigeria-REDD is not substantive. Participation is merely symbolic. For example, elected local government authorities, who ostensibly represent rural people, are neither present in the UN-REDD board nor were they invited to the participatory forums that vetted the Nigeria-REDD. They were excluded because they were politically weak. However, UN-REDD approved the Nigeria-REDD proposal without a strategy to include or strengthen elected local governments. The study concludes with recommendations to help the UN-REDD strengthen elected local government authority in Nigeria in support of democratic local representation.
KW  - REDD
KW  - climate change mitigation
KW  - UN-REDD
KW  - democracy
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - symbolic representation
KW  - local government
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_16_106
SN  - 0972-4923
SN  - 0975-3133
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
SP  - 384
EP  - 399
PB  - Medknow publications & media Pvt LTD
CY  - Mumbai
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Olamoyegun, Michael Adeyemi
A1  - Raimi, Taiwo Hassan
A1  - Ala, Oluwabukola Ayodele
A1  - Fadare, Joseph Olusesan
T1  - Mobile phone ownership and willingness to receive mHealth services among patients with diabetes mellitus in South-West, Nigeria
JF  - Pan African medical journal : PAMJ
N2  - Introduction:
mobile phone technology is increasingly used to overcome traditional barriers to limiting access to diabetes care. This study evaluated mobile phone ownership and willingness to receive and pay for mobile phone-based diabetic services among people with diabetes in South-West, Nigeria. 

Methods: 
two hundred and fifty nine patients with diabetes were consecutively recruited from three tertiary health institutions in South-West, Nigeria. Questionnaire was used to evaluate mobile phone ownership, willingness to receive and pay for mobile phone-based diabetic health care services via voice call and text messaging.

Results: 
97.3% owned a mobile phone, with 38.9% and 61.1% owning smartphone and basic phone respectively. Males were significantly more willing to receive mobile-phone-based health services than females (81.1% vs 68.1%, p=0.025), likewise married compared to unmarried [77.4% vs 57.1%, p=0.0361. Voice calls (41.3%) and text messages (32.4%), were the most preferred modes of receiving diabetes-related health education with social media (3.1%) and email (1.5%) least. Almost three-quarter of participants (72.6%) who owned mobile phone, were willing to receive mobile phone-based diabetes health services. The educational status of patients (adjusted OR [AORJ: 1.7(95% CI: 1.6 to 2.11), glucometers possession (ACM: 2.0 [95% CI: 1.9 to 2.1) and type of mobile phone owned (AOR: 2.9 [95% CI: 2.8 to 5.0]) were significantly associated with the willingness to receive mobile phone-based diabetic services. 

Conclusion:
the majority of study participants owned mobile phones and would be willing to receive and pay for diabetes-related healthcare delivery services provided the cost is minimal and affordable.
KW  - mobile phone
KW  - ownership
KW  - diabetes
KW  - healthcare
KW  - Nigeria
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.29.25174
SN  - 1937-8688
VL  - 37
PB  - African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)
CY  - Kampala, Uganda
ER  -