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 & Science, Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State
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Sustainable community development of 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 emphasised. That is why this paper is trying to examine the intervention of Non-governmental organizations for sustainable community development in llorin-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 llorin-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 in community development services for the social, economic, welfare and development of peoples' communities. Also, NGOs should focus their interventions on activities that would enable them to reduce the marginalised and disadvantaged sectors of the communities to improve the circumstances of the communities' livelihood for sustainable community development in their communities.
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Intervention, NGOs, strategies, strategies, community development, sustainable community development projects
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Olawuni, A.O. & Noibi T.A. (2018): Intervention of NGOs for Sustainable Community Development in Ilorin-South Local Government Area of Kwara State