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The Effect Of Public Policy Implementation On Community Development In Nigeria
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Despite the countless number of rural development policies introduced at
different times by successive governments coupled with the huge
financial and material resources employed, little or nothing is felt at
the rural level as each policy has often died with the government that
initiated it before it starts to yield dividends for the rural dwellers.
Onuorah (1996) supports this claim when he states that not minding the
lofty objectives of these policies, government’s efforts and initiatives
never endured beyond the government that initiated the schemes.
The
importance of community development in contemporary Nigerian society
cannot be overemphasized, as much as it cannot be relegated to the
background; its significance stems from the recognition of the roles it
plays in achieving the improvement of economic, political, social and
cultural conditions of the communities. As a strategy, community
development ensures rapid national development hence Ugwu’s (2009)
posited:
“community development is one of the major planks upon
which National developmental policies and their implementation are
hingedâ€.
Hence, this research work explored the effect of public policy implementation on community development in Nigeria.
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 are characterized by pervasive and endemic
poverty, made manifest by widespread hunger, malnutrition, poor health,
general lack of access to formal education, liveable housing and various
forms of social and political solution compared with their urban
counterparts. Secondly, it is being recognized that the problems of our
urban centres cannot be solved unless those of the rural areas are
solved, or at least contained. Hence these problems emanated from the
unprecedented rural-urban migration which in turn derives from community
area underdevelopment, poverty and unemployment (Akpomuvie, 2010).
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