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    Public-Private Partnership for Sustainable Community Development in Southwestern Nigeria
    (Department of Adult Education, University of Ibadan, 2008-06) Akanji, Tajudeen Ademola; Olawuni, Abiodun Olufemi
    This paper examined the influences of public-private partnership (PPP for sustainable community development. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The target population consist of both public and private organizations, government officials, change-agent officers, community development officials, NGOs, and other development stakeholders in six purposively selected local government areas in Oyo and Ogun states. The stratified random sampling technique was used to select 240 public and private community development partners in the selected local governments. Key Informant Interview (KII) and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) for government officers, NGOs, community development agents, and other stakeholders in community development were used to obtain data. Findings showed that there were influence of partnership on project initiation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and funding of PPP for sustainable community development. There are joint project initiation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and funding with the knowledge of both public and private organisations who were the direct beneficiaries of the projects. The spirits of team work, social networking and adequate enlightening programme for public and private organizations to partner and develop their community were endowed on the community partners. Key words: Partnership, Public-Private, Sustainable, Community Development.