Intervention of NGOs for Sustainable Community Development in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State.
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2018-12
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Faculty of Arts and Education, Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
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Sustainable community development is not new and it enhances the idea of serving the present need of community people and meeting the need of generation unborn in that same communities. The intervention of Non-governmental Organizations and their contributions cannot be over emphasized. That is why this paper is trying to examine the intervention of Non-governmental organizations for sustainable community development in Ilorin-South. The data collected from this study were quantified using descriptive statistic, mean and standard deviation for the research questions. The findings show that there are many private, social and religious owned NGOs in the local government area of study. The findings also revealed that the role of NGOs improves the sustainable community development projects in the area of study as well. The result also revealed that NGOs fund the sustainable community development projects and that there are many NGOs in Ilorin-South Local Government Area. It was also established that NGOs play an important roles in improving sustainable community development projects that available in their communities for the betterment of their living. The paper recommended that NGOs should continue to intervene their interventions on activities that would enable them to reduce the community development services for the social, economic, welfare development of peoples to communities. Also, NGOs should focus their interventions on activities that would enable them to reduce the marginalized and disadvantaged sectors of the communities to improve circumstances of the communities livelihood for sustainable community development in their communities.
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Intervention, Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Strategies, Community Development, Sustainable Community Development Projects