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| Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) and Poverty Alleviation in Enugu State, 2009 - 2012.
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ASOMBA, IFEYINWA U.
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Abstract:
Poverty alleviation is the fundamental objective of economic development. Decades after independence Nigerian government has initiated and implemented policies and programmes that aimed at improving the life and wellbeing of its citizens. Although some of these programmes were not accompanied with specific objectives targeted at poverty alleviation, it is expected that the poor will benefit from their spillover effects. A critical evaluation of the programmes shows that they were constrained by many challenges. Consequently, they contributed less to justify their existence. In 2009 Nigerian government with the assistance of the World Bank launched another programme, Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) aimed at providing development projects to rural communities for economic empowerment and poverty alleviation. In order to achieve its objectives CSDP adopted Community Driven Development (CDD) approach which involves rural dwellers as stakeholder and drivers of their socio-economic development. This study examines the activities of CSDP in three years of its existence. The study reveals that CSDP has executed many projects in benefiting communities such as schools, health centres, bridge, etc. These projects have positively affected the life and welfare of communities as individuals and groups. It also identified some challenges affecting CSDP's poverty alleviation projects which includes funding, sustainability, intra communal conflicts and lack of field offices. The study recommended adequate and timely release of funds to projects committees, effective internal conflict resolution for intra communal conflicts, establishment of field offices and establishing a ministry for poverty alleviation at national and state levels to be in charge of poverty alleviation programmes to ensure sustainability.
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