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The Contribution Of Women Organisations In Community Development In Nigeria
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1.6 Definition of concepts
The
basic concepts that will be defined in this research work includes:
Christian, Community, Community development, Contribution, Development,
and Group Women.
Christian: According to the Good News Bible, the
word Christian was first used at Antioch to refer to those who believe
in our Lord Jesus Christ (Acts chapter 11:26(). Also, the Oxford
Dictionary of Current English defined Christian as one following Christ
teaching, believing in or following the religion of Christ, showing the
associates qualities. It refers to the adherent of Christianity.
Community:
Ezeh (1999), defined community as a place in which people live
(village, cities, etc) or reflecting a population group bearing similar
characteristics (rural dwellers, urban residents, order people; children
and young adults, etc). Bensman (1994) defined community as a
relatively small isolated center with a stable population, in which all
economic and social services necessary to life can be maintained. Also
Igbo and Anugwom (2001:20) defined community as a population which
occupies a given area and shares similar system of rules and regulations
to a group of people, residing in a given geographical location, who
share the same culture, identity and ideology, who are interacting with
each other.
Community development: according to the United Nation
Organization (Ux10), community development is defined as the process by
which the efforts of the people themselves are united with those of the
governmental authorities to improve the economic, social and cultural
life of the people to integrate the community into the life of the
nation and to enable them to contribute fully in National progress. Ezeh
(1999) defined it as the various strategies and inter-positions through
co-ordinate actions of the communities’ members in order to usher in
for the people Social and Economic development. It is an effort geared
towards achieving the solution of community problem.
Contribution:
According to the Oxford Dictionary of current English, contribution is
the act of contributing. Contribution is derived from the word
contribute, which means to give (time money, etc) towards a common
purpose. In this context, contribution is referred to as the time money,
support, material etc directed towards community development projects
by the Christian Women Groups in mbaise.
Development: Ezeh (1999)
sees development as when there is an upward movement from one position
to another overtime especially where the movement is a positive one. It
consists of the process of bringing out the capabilities of
possibilities of a phenomenon to a more advanced or effective state.
According
to Della (2000:370) development is the gradual growth of something so
that it becomes advanced or bigger. In this research work, development
would refer to the gradual increase in infrastructural foundations of a
community for the wellbeing of the community members.
Groups: The
word groups are used to refer to number of persons or things located
close together. It refers to number of people working together. In this
research work, groups will refer to the number of Christian Women,
working together, to contribute meaningfully to the community
development projects in their communities.
Women:The word “Women†is a
plural word, meaning more than one woman. It refers to two adult t
females, group of adult females and women groups’ organization.
According to Hornby (2000:1372), a Woman is referred to as adult female
human beings. Also, the Oxford Dictionary of current English sees Woman
as an adult human female, the female sex, wife or girl friend. But in
this context, Women would refer to all the adult females in the
Christian Churches under-study. It is usually used to refer to married
Christian mothers.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This project analysed the contributions of women organisations in the community development in mbaise Local Government Area in imo state. semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 120 randomly selected women from the chosen communities. Data analysis were achieved using simple descriptive statistics as percentages, frequency tables and ranking. Result of the study shows that women organisations for the purpose of community development in the study area are formed at different l ... Continue reading---
