Sustainability of Local Empowerment and Environmental Management Project in Enugu State

Roseline, C Onah; Gabriel, Ingeborg; Matthias, U Agboeze

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“…A major reason for the failure to make more progress in achieving sustainable development is the failure of nations and the international community to translate the plan and principles into specific actions in specific places. Onah et al (2013) also cited non-sustainability of already existing projects and schemes by succeeding government administrations in Nigeria. This constitutes to a greater extent the underdevelopment of Nigeria and other African nations as a whole where rural communities form the nucleus of the nations.…”

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Access to information for sustainable development in the digital age: Librarians’ perspectives in two Nigerian universities

Omekwu

Ugwu

Ejikeme

2021

Information Development

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the views of librarians on access to Information for Sustainable Development in Enugu State, Nigeria in the Digital Age. Access to information is said to play a major role in the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).In Nigeria, access to information is increasing and yet does not seem to be making real impact towards the realization of the SDGs. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study and descriptive survey design was adopted. The area of study was Enugu State. The population of the study comprised all 93 librarians from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and Enugu State University of Science and Technology. The instrument for data collection included a combination of oral interview and a structured questionnaire made up of four clusters and 76 items on a 4-point scale of Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Disagree (D) and Strongly Disagree (SD). All 93 librarians were sampled using the questionnaire and oral interviews were conducted with librarians at the management level. Of the 93 questionnaires distributed, 72 useful copies were received and analyzed. The findings revealed that librarians access information on Sustainable Development Goals highly because of available resources and infrastructure. Responses to the oral interviews showed that information facilities are not available in many urban and rural communities where most citizens reside. A number of challenges were identified, including poor information structure, poor electricity supply and Internet connectivity, inadequate publicity of government programs on SDGs and non-involvement of people in key decision making. Government should improve the information architecture to widen access to information on SDGs through partnering with the libraries, increase publicity of accurate and relevant information, and involve citizens in the decision-making process.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Access to information for sustainable development in the digital age: Librarians’ perspectives in two Nigerian universities

Omekwu

Ugwu

Ejikeme

2021

Information Development

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An assessment of the local empowerment and environmental management programme (LEEMP) for poverty alleviation in Oyo State, Nigeria

Akanmu¹,

Salisu

Fasina

et al. 2019

Environmental &Amp; Socio-Economic Studies

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ORCID iD: A.A. Akanmu://orcid.org/0000-0002-9264-5863; U.O. Salisu: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1630-3420; S.O. Fasina: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989; S.A. Okunubi: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0496-7537 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A BS TR A CT Efforts to liberate the populace, most especially rural communities, from the shackles of poverty, have been ongoing through several approaches since the independent era in Nigeria. The most recent is the Local Empowerment and Environmental Management Programme (LEEMP) which is tailored to undertake projects capable of alleviating poverty. This study assessed the LEEMP projects in Itesiwaju Local Government Area of Oyo State in Nigeria. Data collection methods were through a questionnaire survey and an interview. A random sampling technique was employed to sample 152 residents from the study population of 30,400 and the results were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. A binary logistics regression was used to determine the influence of the LEEMP projects on the socio-economic status of residents. The findings revealed that: LEEMP projects were mostly the initiatives of both the community and LEEMP officials (72%); over 80% of the respondents observed that community involvement was mainly about land provision and the labour force, justifying over 70% active involvement of the community in the project execution and maintenance. Inferentially, the prediction model was able to classify 83% of the cases correctly, indicating that the predictors contribute significantly to prediction power of the logistic regression model (p<0.000). The Pseudo R-Square of Cox & Snell's R-square (28%) and Nagelkerke's R (42%) also show that the model was relevant in predicting the influence of the LEEMP projects on the residents' socio-economic status. However, age (p=0.000), household size (p=0.019), average monthly income (p=0.033), and educational status (p=0.038) predictors best contributed to the model prediction. The study, however, recommended among others, that the LEEMP projects should be extended extensively within the country accompanied by an injection of adequate funding and a project monitoring mechanism for continuous functionality and sustainability.

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Sustainability of Local Empowerment and Environmental Management Project in Enugu State

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

Access to information for sustainable development in the digital age: Librarians’ perspectives in two Nigerian universities

Access to information for sustainable development in the digital age: Librarians’ perspectives in two Nigerian universities

An assessment of the local empowerment and environmental management programme (LEEMP) for poverty alleviation in Oyo State, Nigeria

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