Dr Omobolaji Olarinmoye, GLF 2010-12

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“During the course of the fellowship I will be focused on the political economy of development and the dynamics of accountability in faith-based organizations involved in international development. The goal of my research during the GLF fellowship is to contribute to improving the capacity of donors and their faith-based organization partners in developing countries to implement Millennium Development Goal-oriented projects capable of transforming fragile states and reinforcing the stability and the political economy of the international system of states.”


Dr Omobolaji Olarinmoye is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics/African Politics in the Department of Politics, Hamilton College, New York, USA. His areas of specialization include comparative and African politics; Nigerian politics; social science research; training management in Africa; South-South research training in the social sciences; development studies; and peacekeeping and post-conflict peace-building.

Before joining GEG, Olarinmoye was Programme Coordinator with the South-South Research Exchange Programme on History of Development; SEPHIS in the office of the Executive Secretary; CODESRIA Secretariat, Dakar; and programmes manager in the Training, Grants and Fellowship Programme of CODESRIA with specific responsibility for Africa Capacity Building Foundation funded programmes of CODESRIA. He was lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science, Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, Nigeria (2006-2007), Cadbury Fellow at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham (2006), SEPHIS doctoral fellow at the Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India (2004) and Programme on Ethnic and Federal Studies doctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan (2004-2005)

Olarinmoye holds a doctorate in Comparative Politics from the University of Ibadan (2007), an M. Phil/D.E.A in African Politics from the Institut d’ etudes Politique /Centre d’études d’Afrique Noire, Bordeaux (2001), an M.sc (1998) and B.sc (1996) in Political Science from University of Ibadan. Dr Olarinmoye’s doctorate thesis on 'Politics of Ethnic Mobilization Amongst the Yoruba of South-western Nigeria' was awarded the first Oyeleye Oyediran Best Thesis Prize in Nigerian Politics and Government from the Department of Political Science University of Ibadan (2007). 

Olarinmoye’s project focused on the subject, ‘Accountability in International Development: A Study of Faith-based Development Organisations in Nigeria’.

 
 

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Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals

Olarinmoye O.O. 2013. “Accountability in Faith-Based Development Organizations in Nigeria: Preliminary Explorations”, Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, (forthcoming).
 
Olarinmoye O.O. 2012. “Faith-based Organizations and Development: Prospects and Constraints”,Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, January, 29: 1-14.
 
Olarinmoye O.O. 2012. “Accountability of Religious Organizations in Situations of Political Instability: The Nigerian Case.” Ibadan Journal of Peace and Development 1 (2012): 225-251.
 
 

Book Chapters

Olarinmoye, O.O. 2012. “Accountability in Development Aid: Possible Contributions of Faith-based Organizations” in Ayantayo, J.K., Dada, O.A. and Labeodan, H.A (eds.) Religion and Governance in Nigeria, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, pp140-166.
  
 

Working Papers

Olarinmoye O.O. 2011. "Accountability in Faith-Based Development Organizations in Nigeria: Preliminary Explorations", Global Economic Governance Working Paper 2011/67, November.
 
Olarinmoye O.O and Illy, Ousseni. 2011. “The Effects of the Middle East Protests: A West African Perspective”, GEG Memo, March.
 
 

Conference Papers

Olarinmoye O.O. 2012. "Faith and Accountability in International Development: A Study of the Global Fund",4th GLF Annual Colloquium, 13 - 15 May, 2012, Princeton.
 
Olarinmoye O.O. 2011. "Engaging the Francophone-Anglophone Divide: The Role of CODESRIA", paper prepared for presentation at European Conference on African Studies 2011, Uppsala, Sweden 15-18 June.
 
Olarinmoye O.O. 2011. “Accountability in Development Aid: the Possible Contributions of Faith-based Organizations”, paper for Annual Conference of Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 20-23 February.
 
Olarinmoye O.O. 2011. “Accountability in Faith-based Organization in Nigeria”, Global Leaders Fellowship Colloquium, 21st-23rd May.
 
Olarinmoye O.O. 2010. “Review of IMF Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa”, launch/presentation meeting of IMF Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa, Overseas Development Institute, October.
 
Olarinmoye O.O. 2010. “Are Faith-based Organizations more Accountable than Others? Global Economic Governance Programme Seminar Series, October.
 
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