Evaluation Of Youths Participation In Self Help Community Development

1.5 Significance Of The Study

The findings of the study will be beneficial to policy makers, community leaders, community development officials, administrators, government and non-governmental organizations as well as other researchers. The findings of the study will be beneficialto policy makers because they will use the recommendations of the study to develop policy, rule and regulation. The findings of the study will be beneficial to community leaders. The study will reveal the weakness in youth participation so that the community leaders will correct their errors. The findings of the study will be beneficial to community development officials who will learn how to formulate and improve upon civil participation. The findings of the study will help the administrators to identify the methods and media of transmitting and disseminating information to their targeted subjects.

The findings of the studywill be beneficial to government and nongovernmental organizationsfor they will use the recommendations of the study to identify community problems for possible improvement.The findings of the study will be beneficial to the researchers or it will give room for further studies on youth participation. The findings of the study will be beneficial to the society at large, for when the youth participation and community development is integrated well, there will be peaceful coexistence.

1.6 Scope Of The Study

This study is structured to generally evaluate youths participation in self help community development in Benin City, Edo State. However, the study will further ascertain self-help community development projects embarked upon by communities in Benin City, Edo State, ascertain the areas of youth’s involvement in self help community development, and determine the constraints to youth’s involvement in self help community development in Benin City, Edo State.

The respondents for this study will comprise youths in Benin City, Edo State.

1.7 Limitation Of The Study

In the course of carrying out this study, the researcher experienced some constraints, which included time constraints, financial constraints, language barriers, and the attitude of the respondents. However, the researcher were able to manage these just to ensure the success of this study.

1.8 Definitions Of Terms

Community: Persons in the same environment putting their resources together to develop their area.

Development means a new state has been reached as consequences of developing.

Community development: As something dealing with the sequence through which communities (or their segments) go as they advance from pre-industrial to industrial ones.

Development programme: Project capable of improving the living standard of communities.

Youth Participation:

Youth participation is the active engagement of young people throughout their own communities. It is often used as a shorthand for youth participation in any many forms, including decision-making, sports, schools and any activity where young people are not historically engaged