Assessment of Rural Development Strategy in Nigeria: Lessons from the Past

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Assessment of Rural Development Strategy in Nigeria: Lessons from the Past

Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 9

Abstract

Rural development is centrally focused on organizing human and natural resources designed to provide a solution to the perennial problems of poverty and deprivation of rural folks with a view of raising their living conditions. Nigeria since the past five decades has been in a continuous search for the solutions to virtually major development problems, this situation has posed serious challenges to the development strategies in Nigeria The study assessed the rural development strategy in Nigeria and the lesion learnt from it. The specific objectives include evaluation of the extent to which rural development policies and programmes have been addressed and tackled in Nigeria and the challenges of its implementing rural development rural development. The study was a review paper on past rural development strategies in Nigeria from 1960 to date. Secondary data were use. The paper showed that many developmental programmes such as National Accelerated Food Production Project (NAFP), Operation Feed the Nation, Green revolution, Directorate for Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructure (DFRRI), National Directorate of Employment (NDE), The National Directorate for Social Mobilization and Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (Sure-p) were implemented in Nigeria since independent but all these progamme have not been able to improved the standard of living of rural dwellers because of poor implementation of the programmes, top-down approach, inadequate community participation, lack of grassroots planning, inability to optimize local resources and neglect of community structural approach. The study recommends that the needs of the particular rural communities should be ascertained before executing intervention by the policy makers. Furthermore, rural dwellers should be made the starting point for any poverty reduction strategy. They are ready to act individually and collectively. They are hardworking and are prepared to struggle to stay afloat and to get ahead. They have a very realistic idea about their conditions and how to improve it; also they are ready to govern themselves.

Authors and Affiliations

Oshinfowokan Oluseyi

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