ABSTRACT. The purpose of the study is to investigate the role of local government and poverty alleviation in Nabutiti, Makindye East division, Kampala district. The study was guided by the following objectives, to identify the role of local government in poverty alleviation to find out the effectiveness of the strategies used to reduce poverty in Makindye Diyision and to suggest policy recommendation based on research findings. The study will employee descriptive research design in its me...
ABSRTACT This research report is about education and poverty alleviating .It was carried out in Tingei sub county Kapchorwa Uganda The objectives of this study are To indentify the causes of poverty in Tingey Sub county Kapchorwa Uganda To examine whether education can play role in poverty Alleviation To determine the repercussions of poverty in Tingey sub-county Kapchorwa Uganda The study was descriptive it employed qualitative methods since qualitative methods showed the experience necessar...
ABSTRACT Poverty is general phenomenon in less developed countries including Nigeria. It is a common problem that cannot be easily wiped out but can be alleviated through concerted effort by stake holders. The problem of poverty has brought about low standard of living of people in both rural and urban area that attention of individual, Federal, States and Local Government has been drawn to alleviate it to better the living standard of the rural area. This work was undertaken to look into t...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDECLARATIONAPPROVAL iiiLIST OF ACRONYMSDEDICATIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTABSTRACTCHAPTER ONE 11.0 Introduction1.1 Background of the studyL 2 What is poverty? 41.3 Statement of problem1.4 Objectives of the study 51.5 Key research questions 61.6 Significance of the study 61.7 Scope of the study 61.7.1 Time scope 71.7.2 Geographical scope 71.8 Content of the report 7CHAPTER TWO 8LITERATURE REVIEW 82.0 Introduction 82.1 The characterization of poverty 82.2 Poverty trends in Uganda 92.3 Th...
ABSTRACT 7 Poverty is general phenomenon in less developed countries including Nigeria. It is a common problem that cannot be easily wiped out but can be alleviated through concerted effort by stake holders. The problem of poverty has brought about low standard of living of people in both rural and urban area that attention of individual, Federal, States and Local Government has been drawn to alleviate it to better the living standard of the rural area. This work was undertaken to look into t...
ABSTRACTThe purpose of the study was to establish the impact of Decentralization inpoverty alleviation in Lotuke Sub County, Abim District. The specific objectiveswere to: examine the poverty levels, establish the challenges facingdecentralization in poverty alleviation programmes in improving the livelihood,examine the impact of decentralization in poverty alleviation programmes inimproving the livelihood; and establish the Effective ways of implementingdecentralization programmes in poverty...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out on the contributions of community development projects in poverty eradication in Rwanda where Ubudehe local community development project was considered as a case study. It was carried out in the four major provinces of Rwanda and it focused on the local government officials, project management officials and the beneficiaries of the project who are the community members. The major objectives of the study were to find out the roles that were being played by U...
ABSTRACT Globally, prominent among the current greatest threats to human existence, are poverty and hunger. In fact, to state that the scourge of poverty has assumed the dimension of a global epidemic, is a repetition of the obvious. We have a situation where a greater of the world population lives below one dollar a day or can hardly afford a meal. In the third world countries, of which Nigeria is one, the situation remains pathetic and pitiable. Subsequently, the 189 United Nation member-St...
ABSTRACT The main theme of this study was to carry out a research on “organizational constraints on poverty alleviation programmes in Enugu State from 1999-2009”. In view of this, the study was carried out to address the following questions, namely: what are the bureaucratic obstacles involved in the organizations of poverty alleviation programmes? What poverty alleviation programmes are carried out with contrasting socio-economic and organizational opportunities and constraints? And wha...
ABSTRACT This study was about the effects of Microfinance on poverty alleviation in Kigali City. The study specifically sought to assess the effects of; 1) credit access on poverty alleviation; 2) members' market access on poverty alleviation; 3) to evaluate the challenges facing Microfinance in mobilizing resources for lending to members in relation to poverty alleviation; and 4) to evaluate the effects of Microfinance members training on poverty alleviation in Kigali City. A cross sectional...
The phenomenal growth in the level of poverty in spite of the increasingly government established programs aimed at poverty alleviation in Nigeria call for the study into other options outside the purview of the Government. Hence this paper examines the impact of Non-Governmental Organisations activities on poverty alleviation among dwellers of selected villages (Gidan Kwano, Gidan Mangoro and Gurara) in Bosso Local Government, Niger State of Nigeria based on Weisbrod performance failure theo...
Abstract This study was aimed at finding out whether land resettlement indeed achieved poverty eradication, using the case of Central Estate Resettlement in Chirumhanzu, to ascertain whether or not resettled farmers in Central Estate in Chirumhanzu have managed to eradicate poverty through accessing land and produce cash crops. A couple of literature on sustainable livelihoods, including relevant model, was reviewed focusing on aspects such as community assets, adaptive strategies and technol...
Abstract In this study, the researcher studied the contribution of local non-governmental organizations on poverty alleviation in LAFOLE district. The study was guided by the following objectives; to evaluate the contribution of local NGO’s on poverty alleviation in Mogadishu, to assess the strategies for Poverty alleviation that the local NGOs use, to investigate the magnitude of the poverty after many NGO5 have worked on its alleviation. The research design used was cross sectional survey...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDECLARATIONAPPROVALDEDICATION iiiACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ivLIST OF FIGURES viiiLIST OF ACRONYMS ixABSTRACTCHAPTER ONE 1INTRODUCTION 11.0 Introduction 11.1 Background to the study 11.1.1 Historical Perspective 11.1.2 Theoretical Perspective 31.1.3 Conceptual Perspective 31.1.4 Contextual perspective 41.2 Statement of the problem 51.3 Purpose of the Study 6Objectives of the study 61.5 Research Questions 61.6 Research Hypothesis 61.7 Scope of the study 71.7.1 Geographical Scope 71.7.2 ...
Assessment of Poverty Alleviation Programmes