Human development and capability building in the Niger Delta: Issues and challenges
Continuous destruction of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria environment by oil-related exploration, unemployment, human development and education has persistently caused unrest and violence.Despite the laudable strategies adopted by the government in ensuring lasting solution in the region, scholars...
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| author | Okinono, Otega Salleh, Dani Din, Badariah |
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| description | Continuous destruction of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria environment by oil-related exploration, unemployment, human development and education has persistently caused unrest and violence.Despite the laudable strategies adopted by the government in ensuring lasting solution in the region, scholars have however criticized some of the strategies as not working and impacting in the lives of the target population.This paper therefore explores human development and capability issues in achieving sustainable community development in the region.In-depth interview was used to investigate the issues in six communities in three selected states and NDDC. The result of this study revealed that issues like insufficient funding, projects abandonment, community attitude and leadership style are the major impediments to sustainable human development in the Niger Delta.It is therefore recommended that both governmental and non-governmental developmental agencies should take into cognizance issues like proper funding, monitoring and evaluation of projects and community involvement in designing and implementation of development plans.Likewise, community should see themselves as developmental partners with development agencies by way of developing positive attitude and maintenance to developmental projects. |
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| spelling | uum-185862016-08-15T04:15:33Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18586/ Human development and capability building in the Niger Delta: Issues and challenges Okinono, Otega Salleh, Dani Din, Badariah HD28 Management. Industrial Management HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Continuous destruction of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria environment by oil-related exploration, unemployment, human development and education has persistently caused unrest and violence.Despite the laudable strategies adopted by the government in ensuring lasting solution in the region, scholars have however criticized some of the strategies as not working and impacting in the lives of the target population.This paper therefore explores human development and capability issues in achieving sustainable community development in the region.In-depth interview was used to investigate the issues in six communities in three selected states and NDDC. The result of this study revealed that issues like insufficient funding, projects abandonment, community attitude and leadership style are the major impediments to sustainable human development in the Niger Delta.It is therefore recommended that both governmental and non-governmental developmental agencies should take into cognizance issues like proper funding, monitoring and evaluation of projects and community involvement in designing and implementation of development plans.Likewise, community should see themselves as developmental partners with development agencies by way of developing positive attitude and maintenance to developmental projects. MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18586/1/MJSS%206%206%20s2%202015.pdf Okinono, Otega and Salleh, Dani and Din, Badariah (2015) Human development and capability building in the Niger Delta: Issues and challenges. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 6 (6 S2). pp. 406-414. ISSN 2039-9340 http://doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s2p406 doi:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s2p406 doi:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s2p406 |
| spellingShingle | HD28 Management. Industrial Management HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Okinono, Otega Salleh, Dani Din, Badariah Human development and capability building in the Niger Delta: Issues and challenges |
| title | Human development and capability building in the Niger Delta: Issues and challenges |
| title_full | Human development and capability building in the Niger Delta: Issues and challenges |
| title_fullStr | Human development and capability building in the Niger Delta: Issues and challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human development and capability building in the Niger Delta: Issues and challenges |
| title_short | Human development and capability building in the Niger Delta: Issues and challenges |
| title_sort | human development and capability building in the niger delta issues and challenges |
| topic | HD28 Management. Industrial Management HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| url | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18586/1/MJSS%206%206%20s2%202015.pdf |
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