Community participation in infrastructural development in Africa: The role of community development experts

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dc.contributor.authorVeta, Dennis
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-26T09:10:12Z
dc.date.available2023-06-26T09:10:12Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractAfrican societies, during the pre-colonial era, mobilized their local structures, such as council of chiefs, youth, women, elders to participate in development projects, and sustainability in such projects was guaranteed. The colonial era brought about urbanization, which in turn, bred individualization. The ‘we feeling’ of the communities was eroded. Government, alone, now planned, implemented, monitored, evaluated and handed development programmes/projects to beneficiaries. Acceptability and sustainability of most of such programmes/projects were lost until government could no longer meet the ‘needs’ of the people. This continued into independent era of African nations. Presently, community participation in its development process is seen as panacea to achievement of sustainable infrastructural development programmes/ projects. Africans, having imbibed and diffused urbanization and individualization of the colonial perspectives into the rural areas, now grapple with technical knowhow of community participation in development process amidst various inhibiting factors resulting in unsustainability of development programmes/projects. This paper, using available secondary data, gave an overview of community participation in African nations, effects of community participation, identified factors inhibiting community participation in development process, methods of achieving active community participation in development programmes/ projects were highlighted, and recommendations for enhancement of active community participation in development process were proffered.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVeta, O. D. (2020). Community participation in infrastructural development in Africa: The role of community development experts. Icheke Journal of the Faculty of Humanities, 18 (1), 1 - 21.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/11276
dc.publisherFaculty of Humanities, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Nigeriaen_US
dc.subjectCommunity, Participation, Development, Programmes, Africa, Development Expertsen_US
dc.titleCommunity participation in infrastructural development in Africa: The role of community development expertsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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