-
Effects Of Urban Renewal On Women's Role
CHAPTER ONE -- [Total Page(s) 3]
Page 2 of 3
-
-
-
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM.
Rapid
urbanization and particularly the growth of large cities, and the
associated problems of urban slums, degraded environment, inadequate
health services, unemployment, and poverty have emerged as major
socio-economic issues with potentially important political implications
in developing countries. According to World Bank Report, (1991) by the
year 2000, nearly 45% of the 5.1 billion population of the developing
countries wil1live in urban areas and more than 49 third World Cities
are expected to have a population of Over 4 million. In Africa, only a
small proportion of the urban population (9 percent) currently. live in
large cities, with a population of more than 4 million but by the year
2025 it could have the highest percentage (33 percent) of all continents
(Ugwu,2005: 191).
This alarming rate of urbanization has led to
very serious difficulties in providing people with a decent level of
living culminating in the urban crisis which manifests itself in ways
which include overcrowding, or congestion, poor and substandard housing,
development of slums, stark extremes of wealth and poverty,
exploitation of rural lands, and people for the benefit of the cities,
traffic paralysis and a host of social vices or aberrations and
inadequate and unreliable infrastructural services and so on (Udenta:
1991:90).
The implications of these demographic trends for community
development are staggering. In Lagos State studies have shown that
nearly half of the population is living in slum and quarter settlements.
According to Ugwu (2005), more than one quarter of the inhabitants in
most large cities are estimated to be living in absolute poverty. Lack
of access to social services such as education, and health leads to
higher fertility accompanied by high infant mortality amongst the urban
poor, particularly amongst the slum dwellers.
From the above
scenario, it is very clear that government alone cannot meet the social
needs of the people. It is also clear that urban population growth poses
a lot of problems to urban management especially where there is severe
shortage of resources to provide social amenities. Thus, the issue of
encouraging people's participation in the decision-making and
implementation of development progammes become necessary. According to
Ugwu, (2005) the major reason for local government creation and various
reforms is to encourage active participation of the citizens in the
community development process at the grassroots.
One of the factors
inhibiting community development in Nigeria is the fact that the local
citizens have often not been mobilized to participate in rural
development. This fact contributes immensely to the lack of political
support by majority of the rural populace for government sponsored
development programmes. For instance, a major reason for the previous
local government reforms is to encourage active participation of the
citizens in the political process at the grassroots. However, most the
development programme fails because the local governments have failed to
live up to their responsibility of mobilizing the citizens to
participate in the decision-making process of development programmes.
Because of this fact, the community of interest that should exist in
development efforts is absent. The result is a general apathy and
hostility. In Lagos State today, for example, only governments' (federal
or State or Local Government) sponsored projects are commonly sighted
around. This also justified the reasons for low community development.
The
purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of urban renewal
programme on the family role of woman in Amuwo odofin Local Government
Area Lagos. The city is usually composed of large population and diverse
kind of family settings with different family orientation. The role of
the women in a family cannot be over emphasized in the upkeep of the
children and the husbands especially when it involves a large family -
the responsibility becomes even more complex, except the existing system
is typified by organized structures within the social milieu.
CHAPTER ONE -- [Total Page(s) 3]
Page 2 of 3
-
-
ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This project work is aimed at finding out the extent to which the family role of women isaffected by the newest innovation - urban renewal in our contemporary society today especially in Lagos State - as one of the fastest growing cities in the world Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area was chosen because of its metropolitan nature of the area. Based on the information obtained through personal interview and questionnaire the conclusiondrawn is that, the urban life is saturated by availability of ... Continue reading---
