Mobilization Strategies on Partnership for Sustainable Community Development in South-Western Nigeria.
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2011-01-11
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This paper examined the mobilization strategies as determinants of partnership in sustainable community development projects in South West, Nigeria. This is with the view of determining the strategies for effective mobilization of community people, the government and other community development agencies to partner in order to have sustainable community development project in their communities. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The target population consisted of community people, Community Based Organization leaders, Change-agent officers and community development officials in nine purposively selected local governments in Oyo, Ogun and Ondo states in Nigeria. The stratified random sampling technique was used to select 1217 community development partners in the selected local government areas. Two sets of questionnaire, using the Likert five points rating scale was used to test the attitude of the respondents and the open-ended questionnaire were also used to test other areas. This was complemented with the use of a structured Key Informant Interview (KII) for community organization leaders and Focus Group Discussion (FDG) for government officers, NGOs, community development agents and other stakeholders in community’s development. The statistical methods used to test the two hypotheses generated for the study were descriptive statistical tools of simple frequency count and simple regression statistics was used to analyse the research questions. From the study, findings showed that there were joints impacts of community education, integration of different groups, provision of development information, teamwork, and change-agent methodologies on partnership for sustainable community development. Based on the findings, it was recommended that project initiation should always be with the knowledge of community people who are the direct beneficiaries of the projects. Also efforts should be geared towards building the spirit of team work, social networking, and adequate enlighten programme should be engaged for community people to partner with the government to develop their community.
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Mobilization Strategies, Partnership, Sustainable, Community Development