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Title: | Development aid agencies and reproductive health care policies in Nigeria |
Author: | Unumeri, Godwin O. |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Nigerian Journal of International Affairs (ISSN 0331-3646) |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 103-126 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | health aid health policy reproductive health |
Abstract: | This paper looks at the link between the intervention strategies of health sector-based international development aid agencies (IDAAs) and the evolution of reproductive health care (RHC) policy in Nigeria. It ascertains from the existing literature that development aid (DA) packages from developed countries usually contain conditionalities that subtly commit IDAAs (bilateral and multilateral) to the foreign policy objectives of donors at the expense of recipient less-developing countries. Nevertheless, Nigeria appears to be profiting immensely from IDAAs DA-related programming as evidenced by the increasing response of its RHC policy to diverse aspects of the guiding principles of the PPFN (Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria), UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), WHO and USAID (United States Agency for Internatinal Development). The contents of Nigeria's RHC policy has gradually tended away from its previous pronatalist inclinations to a contemporary concern for human rights that is the global watershed in such issues. Unfortunately, due to the interplay of sociocultural factors, corruption, budget inadequacy and/or misappropriation, as well as inconsistencies in programme formulation and/or implementation, poor leadership and lack of political will, the benefits of the current RHC policy direction might not positively impact on a larger proportion of Nigerian society. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |