CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTION ON COVID-19

268, Federal Low-cost Estate, Oloje, Ilorin, Kwara State

IDISD BOOK PROJECT

CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTION

Book Title: COVID-19 Pandemic Experience in Kwara State: Lessons For the Future

INTRODUCTION

The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time. The outbreak was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, declared to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30th January, 2020 and recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11th March, 2020. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the current global pandemic is the first known to emerge as the result of a novel coronavirus. In a little over 3 months, COVID-19 has morphed from a small outbreak to a pandemic, which the WHO deems a public health emergency of international concern and a socioeconomic crisis affecting everyone.

Indeed, the virus traveled in a borderless world, and challenged public and private health systems in more than 196 countries. No doubt, the new novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has posed an unprecedented challenge to governments worldwide. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Nigeria was announced on 27th February, 2020 when an Italian citizen in Lagos tested positive for the virus. In Kwara state, the first case was recorded on 6th April, 2020.

As a highly contagious virus, the number of new cases of COVID-19 discovered in Nigeria keeps skyrocketing on a daily basis, causing both the federal and the state governments to implement different strategies to stop the spread of the virus and limit the mortality rate resulting from the disease. Furthermore, governments’ approaches to tackle the pandemic and their effectiveness seem to significantly vary. Although we do not know the answer yet and this may change in the future, such differences demand deep reflections.

As the virus spread worldwide, it poses additional challenges not just to the health sector, but also to education, security and even the economy. The three months of COVID-19 have also indicated that governments react to issues with a variety of responses in terms of degree of innovativeness and flexibility.

OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK

On this note, IDISD is issuing this call for chapters, asking for reflective contributions on what lessons can be learnt from ongoing experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kwara State. Chapter contributions are invited for an edited book that examines the issues, perspectives, trends, impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in Kwara State and the lessons for the future.

The call for chapter contribution aims to gather reflexive, timely and relevant contributions of approaches to COVID-19 pandemic by the public and private sector organisations in Kwara State while providing solutions. We acknowledge that the timing of the call may pose challenges to the rigor and relevance of academic contributions – as we all are learning along the way. However, we believe that strategic management approach should be employed to respond to this type of emergency more quickly and offer more vigorous insights. This will no doubt position the State to make projections about preparedness for future emergencies. We are convinced that there is positivity to be derived by learning from such lessons. The chapter would among other topics address questions about political and institutional preparedness and the role of expertise, to supply chains and intersectoral impacts, to testing, treatment, to employment, recessions, and economic downturns, to agriculture industrial and service professions, to health, educational, and well-being outcomes.

RECOMMENDED CHAPTERS

The authors may contribute their research papers on the listed topics, though it is not limited to the list. The authors may go beyond these topics with the condition that the contents should remain in line with the title. Thus, topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Education in the age of COVID-19

• Effects of formal and non-formal education institution closures; and the generalization of online and distance teaching and learning.

• Media portrayals of COVID-19

• Conspiracy theories, misinformation, and disinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic

• Social media and the proliferation of fake news, dodgy health advice and fake cures

• Outbreak, spread, and patterns of the COVID-19

• Tackling the fallout from COVID-19

• Public health administration and education during COVID-19

• Public health management strategies during COVID-19

• Public preventive strategies against COVID-19

• Impact of prevention measures and government intervention in mitigating COVID-19

• Corporate Citizenship in the era of COVID-19

• Macroeconomic impacts of COVID-19

• COVID-19 and SMEs

• ICT in the age of COVID-19

• Good local or community level practices to mitigate the spread of COVID-19

• Religion and COVID-19 Pandemic

• Political and administrative leadership in handling the COVID-19 outbreak.

• Coordination and cooperation mechanisms between agencies of government in tackling COVID-19.

• COVID-19 and NGOs

• Public institutions and efficient response to COVID-19 pandemic.

• Coordination and cooperation mechanisms between agencies of government in tackling COVID-19.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

We warmly encourage researchers, academics, teachers, postgraduate students and professionals in industry to present their findings. Those interested in sending original abstracts to us should do so on or before 8th May, 2020. The book would be out for public presentation before the end of the year. For this reason, we intend to keep very strictly to the above deadline. The first stage is for those interested in participating in the book project to send us their proposed topics and an abstract of not more than 200 words. This would enable us to assess appropriateness of the issues to be addressed. Deadline for submission of abstract is 8th May, 2020. All submissions should be made to idisdbookproject@gmail.com.

All submitted manuscripts would be reviewed on a double-blinded review basis and final acceptance will be based on the quality of the chapter contribution, its relevance to the book theme and contribution to knowledge. The thematic issues of the book cut across several professional and academic disciplines, therefore an integrated and multidisciplinary approach is strongly encouraged. Kindly develop your chapter bearing in mind the diversity of the readership. Manuscript should not exceed 4000 words, including references and abstract. The preferred referencing style is APA (6th edition). Submission of draft chapters should be accompanied with brief profile of the author(s), institutional affiliation and major research interests (not exceeding 100 words).

Publication fee is FREE

Expected publication month: November, 2020

All submissions should be made to idisdbookproject@gmail.com. For further enquiries, call

08064432887 or 08030778869.

EDITORIAL TEAM

Professor Abdulrasaq Olayinka ONIYE

Department of Counsellor Education,

Faculty of Education,

University of Ilorin,

Kwara State, Nigeria.

Dr. Wahid Damilola OLANIPEKUN

Department of Management and Accounting,

College of Management & Social Sciences,

Summit University Offa,

Kwara State, Nigeria.

Dr. Azeez Tunbosun LAWAL

Department of Business Administration,

Faculty of Management Sciences,

Al-Hikmah University Ilorin,

Kwara State, Nigeria.

Mr. Lawal Olalekan OLOHUNGBEBE

Director, Center for Community Development,

Kwara State University Malete,

Kwara State, Nigeria.

Dr. Salaudeen Oladele HANAFI (MBBS)

Chairman BOT,

Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable

Development, Ilorin,

Kwara State, Nigeria.