RT Article
T1 Accountability in Faith-Based Organizations in Nigeria
JF Transformation
VO 31
IS 1
SP 47
OP 61
A1 Olarinmoye, Omobolaji Ololade
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1779606117
AB Faith-based organizations (FBOs) are important service providers in Nigeria, hence their attractiveness to international development actors. As service organizations, FBOs are accountable to their funder, domestic service regulators and their clients/beneficiaries who have at their disposal legal, financial, service provision oversight and peer regulation mechanisms for ensuring the accountability of FBOs. An assessment of these mechanisms shows that due to political and structural inadequacies born out of the weak nature of the Nigerian state and inconsistencies in the enabling legislations for each mechanism, these mechanisms are unable to ensure adequate internal accountability of funds released to FBOs by international agencies. This article examines the case of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Christian Health Association on Nigeria to illustrate this.
K1 Religion
K1 Nigeria
K1 FBO
K1 Development
K1 Africa
K1 Accountability
DO 10.1177/0265378813501733