The Role Of Local Government In Community Development

Description

TABLE OF CONTENT

COVER PAGE

APPROVAL PAGE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENT

1.0    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

1.1    INTRODUCTION

1.2    STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

1.5    RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

1.6    SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

1.7    ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY

1.8    DEFINITION OF TERMS

CHAPTER TWO

2.0    LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1    INTRODUCTION

2.2    THEORETICAL FRAME WORK

2.3    CURRENT TREND IN THINKING

2.4    SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER

CHAPTER THREE

3.0    RESEARCH METHOD

3.1    INTRODUCTION

3.2    SAMPLE AND POPULATION OF THE STUDY

3.3    SOURCE OF DATA

3.4    METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS  2

3.5   RESEARCH PROBLEM

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0    DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION FINDINGS

4.1    INTRODUCTION

4.2    HISTORY OF THE CASE STUDY (OKE-ERO LOCAL GOVERNMENT KWARA STATE)

4.3    PRESENTATION OF DATA

4.4    ANALYSIS OF DATA

4.5     TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS

4.6     SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0     SUMMARY, RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION

5.1     SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

5.2     RECOMMENDATION

5.3     CONCLUSION

CHAPTER ONE

1.0   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Local government is the lowest tier of government anywhere in the world. It is very important because it is very close to the people as a result of its multi-purpose in term of carrying out socio-economic service in the local areas, promoting the democratic process, serving as training ground for national political leaders and serving as medium of communication between the people and the higher tiers of government.

However, local government needs to be viable before achieving these purposes. The liability of local government in turn depends on the nature of the power shared and the society. Where power is divided to local government, they are likely to be liable while in case of de-concentration of power they are bound to be unviable. This gives rise to both terminologies of local government (as in devotedly) and local administration (as in documentation) the latter amount to more filed agent which operate execute the policies of the higher government, while the firmer possesses were legal competence and more autonomy in the areas of self rule and mobilization of resources (Tumba 2005).

Community development can be described as the process where community members come together to take collective actions and generate solutions to common problems, community wellbeing (economic, social, environmental and cultural) often evolves from this type of collective action being taken at a grassroots level. Community development ranges from small initiatives within a small group to large initiative that involves the broader community.

The concept of community pr-suppose the mobilization by government or the people of that locality, local human and materials resources in a coordinated fraction to be used in the development of the community in term of project execution or implementation.

Community development means territorial formal social system with intimacy and share common social, economical and cultural characteristics. It is also a population living with legally established where people have some social, economic and cultural features in common which enable them to pursue a common goal.

Development in its own dimension means different things to different people, some people take it to be change, other take it as advancement improvement and progress while some scholars regard it as modernization or westernization, in other words, development means continues process of positive change in the quality and span of people.

What is meant by change are:

1. Ability to feed, clothe and shelter one resulting from one income from one occupation and from provision of infrastructural facilities like, road, water, electricity, the telecommunication and implement in another factor of production.
2. Ability to live longer as a result of provision of health and medical facilities.
3. Ability to read, write and to understand forces surrounding through provision of formal and informal education.

1.1   INTRODUCTION

The study of the roles of local government in community development gives us an insight towards the details knowledge and understanding has local government operate as the third tiers of government anywhere in the world.

Also the study made us to understand that the impact and contribution of government whether of federal or state level toward the development and effective administration of local government and its roles in community development. More also it made us to understand the multipurpose feature of local government in terms of carrying socio-economic services in the local areas, thereby stimulating and encouraging local initiative in community work, promoting the democratic process, saving as training ground for nation political leaders, serving as medium of communication between the people and higher tiers of government.

1.2   STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

Some of the problem affecting the role of local government and community development are:

1. Planning without implementation and implementation without planning of programme.
2. People are not very clear about the nation and the community development programmes. This usually leads to lack of community to the part of the people. It is more of governmental programme than that of the people.

• Lack of proper plan monitoring and evaluation, hence there

is no systematic way of determining programme accomplishment facilitating effectiveness and efficiency.

1. Insufficient resources, many community development projects suffer from shortage of resources and in i.e human and for material resources.
2. Top down planning in which few top administrative offices make division on community development programme planning and pass it down for implementation.
3. Problem of coordination: This usually results in role conflict for example a change agent is expected to fulfill the desire of the sponsoring agency rather than what he consider appropriate to the community. i.e the use of contraceptive for birth control.

• Poor statistical base for effective planning.
• Inadequate understanding of the community such as it structure of influence, communication and decision making pattern.

1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The following could be considered as the objectives of community development.

1. Provision of social/essentials amenities such as, roads, bridges, market and state etc.
2. Provision of education of facilities and establishment of schools and college.

• Promotion of cooperative organization so as to encourage and facilitate cooperative feeling and enhance collective assistance to member of the organization. It is also meant to be used as a means of figuring and working as one in any undertaking.

1. It also use in the process of improving life at the local community level as long as the human and material resources in the community can provide.
2. To improve and less technical assistance available from outside the community.
3. To develop all aspect of community living equitably as so as not to create imbalance or neglect of any area.

• To minimize poverty and unemployment thereby reducing crime rate and for social life which are usually caused by unemployment.
• It is also engaged in the use of people to achieve self-generally breakthrough in productivity and to raise the production potentials by stimulating human and physical process of change through sensitization, education and training.

1. To co-operate with and co-ordinate local, state and national development plans.
2. To increase participation of people in planning and implementation of development programme.

1.5   RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

The process of adopting this including direct interview and the use of secondary data. Direct interview involves getting oral information from the official at the local government like the local government council.

The user of secondary data attach going through some publication and document writing about local government in question. It also involves the publication attach like local government bulleting budget briefly and newspaper article on the subject matter. Also attached are some standard book written by eminent scholar on the issue of local government administration in relation to transformation through these various document one will be to make comparisons between the various budget proposal and official of local government council, a questionnaire is also designed distributed in order to get a wider view on the topic that also give these who are knowledge on the field of local government affair but not directly working with the council the opportunity to present their view in the topic.

1.6   SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The study this project covers the role of local government area. The study in this area would help to known the infrastructural facilities and the standard of living the people regarding to community development in Ekiti Kwara local government.

1.7   ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY

The objective of the study of this project were arranged or complete as follows in the study.

• Chapter one course the introduction to the study, the aim and objective of the study, statement of problem, significance of study, research methodology, definitions of terms.
• Chapter two contains literature review introduction, the theoretical frame work, current trend in thinking, summary of chapter. While
• Chapter three contain methodology of research, sample and population of the study, sources of data method, data analysis and research problem also.
• Chapter four contain data presentation brief of the case study etc. and
• Chapter five consist summary and conclusion also recommendation.

1.8   DEFINITION OF TERMS 

Local government can also be defined as a geographical location collective a state or nation which is constituted by law and has substantial control of local affairs including power to impose taxes or to exact labour local government of at grass root level exercised through representative bodies created by law and changed with specific responsibilities.

It is concerned with the regulation and administration of local affaires by the people inhabiting the locality through their own representative body made up of elected members.

Local government is the lowest tier of government and where in the world. It is very important because it is very close to the people at grass root level as a result of its multi-purpose function in term of carrying out socio-economic services in the local area, stimulating and encouraging local people.

REFERENCE

Shuaib Ona (2007): Basic element of community development olad publisher, Ilorin page 15-16.

BabaitaT.A (2008): Issues and concepts in Nigeria local government administration and Olad Publishers Ilorin.

Oxford Dictionary (2003): Oxford University press (USA) Administration: Ibadan University.