Evaluation Of Youths Participation In Self Help Community Development

This study was carried out on the evaluation of youths participation in self help community development in Benin City. The survey design was adopted and the simple random sampling techniques were employed in this study. The population size comprise of youths in Benin City, Edo State. In determining the sample size, the researcher purposefully selected 147 respondents and 141 were validated. Self-constructed and validated questionnaire was used for data collection.
The collected and validated questionnaires were analyzed using frequency tables, and mean scores.  The result of the findings reveals that the extent of youth participation in self help community development in Benin City is low.The study also revealed that youth’s does not participate in the project planning process, in determining the type of facilities needed for the project, in making suggestions for improvement, and supervision of projects so as to achieve desired project objectives of self help community development.

Furthermore, the study revealed that the constraints to youth’s involvement in self help community development in Benin City, Edo State include; not given free hand to be actively involved in community development projects, etc.Therefore, it is recommended that community development stakeholders should see the youths as an important segment of the populace and future custodian of the community, who should be given opportunity like others, in all aspects of community development efforts such as, in the planning process, implementation, supervision and evaluation of community projects. To mention but a few.