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Effect Of Public Policy Implementation On Community Development In Nigeria
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1.2 Statement of the Problem
The development of a country cannot
be completed with the singular act of developing the urban areas at the
detriment of the communities which supply the urban areas with food and
labour. Disheartening as this may seem, the rural communities in Nigeria
are characterized by pervasive and endemic poverty, made manifest by
widespread hunger, malnutrition, poor health, general lack of access to
formal education. Hence these problems emanated from the unprecedented
rural-urban migration which in turn derives from community area
underdevelopment, poverty and unemployment.
Implementation of public
policies in Nigeria often turns out to be the graveyard of it where the
intentions of the designer of policies are often undermined by a
constellation of powerful forces of political corruption and
bureaucratic red-tapism in cooperation with the people.
It is
important to note that, primary health care in any community forms the
backbone of its growth and development. But unfortunately observation
showed that primary health care system in Ojo Local Government Area of
Lagos State is majorly plagued with inadequate health facilities and
structures, poor motivation and remuneration for health care staff,
inequitable and unsustainable health care financing, corruption,
incompetency, lack of access to health care, shortage of essential drugs
among others. Thus one begins to wonder if the lack of community
development seen in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State is
unconnected to public policy implementation via primary health care in
this area.
Whether that public policy implementation is positively or
negatively related to community development in Nigeria is a tentative
issue that remains open to empirical investigation. Hence, this study
aims to investigate the relationship between public policy
implementation and community development in Nigeria with a particular
reference to primary health care service in Ojo Local Government Area
(LGA) of Lagos State.
1.3 Objectives of the Study
The major
objective of this study is to assess the effect of public policy
implementation on community development in Nigeria. While other specific
objectives are:
i. To examine the effect of public policy implementation on community development in Nigeria.
ii. To investigate the effect of government programmes on poverty reduction in the rural communities.
iii. To identify the impact of public policy on primary health care service in Ojo Local Government Area.
iv. To identify problems and challenges of implementing public policies in Nigeria.
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