This study sought to identify community groups that were operating with an- eco- nomic focus and to assess the potential for Technoserve (TNS) to initiate work with them. Women's groups engaged in shea-nut harvesting, selling, and shea butter extraction were targeted. Focus areas were: level of activity, potentials and constraints, income generating and livelihood activities. A combination of instruments, namely purposive sampling of communities, windshield survey, semi- structured interviews...
Abstract: As history tells us, poverty in South Wollo including the study area Kalu district, is deep rooted and worse that the majority of people have suffered from poverty and poverty related problems for a very long period of time. Albeit there were decades of national and international funded development programmes in agriculture and rural development, sustained inflow of food aid and emergency relief operations, object poverty still characterize the lives of a large proportion of the po...
This research sought to uncover the factors affecting the success of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) interventions in achieving sustainable rural development in Zimbabwe, citing the case of Mwenezi Rural District. The research was chosen to find possible solutions and lay recommendations to address the underlying factors which hinder non-governmental organisations from fulfilling their development objective of achieving sustainable rural development and at the same time to pave a�...
ABSTRACT This work centered on private enterprises and rural development in Anambra state. The objectives include: to ascertain the extent to which private enterprises have contributed to rural development in Anambra state; to find out the challenges facing private enterprises in rural development in Anambra state; to examine the measures to enhance participation of private enterprises in rural development in Anambra state.It is a survey type of research since it investigated what happened ...
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the impact of training on the performance of Community Based Organization, an analysis of Community Empowerment for Rural Development in Arua District. The purpose of the study was therefore to analyze the relationship between training and the performance of Community Based Organizations. The objectives of the study were to investigate the training approaches used, the practice of performance appraisal, measures taken to improve performance and how often the org...
ABSTRACT This project report studied community participation and rural development in Nigeria, from 2012- 2014. The study has both broad and specific objectives. The broad objective is to determine whether communities in Nsukka local government area participated effectively in community rural development. The specific objectives are as follows: (i) To ascertain the extent of community participation in community development in Ihe-Owere. (ii) To determine whether the problem of inadequate fund...
Abstract The overall purpose of the study was to determine the perception of extension staff of manpower and institutional factors that constrain agricultural extension services in Benue State Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (BNARDA). The study was guided by three research purposes, namely: to describe the respondents’ socio-economic characteristics; to determine the perception of the extension staff on the number of extension staff as a manpower constrain; and to examine the e...
Abstract The study was carried out to investigate local government and rural development in Anambra State: 2006-2014. The study was necessitated due by worrisome trend in poor rural development as a result of lack of adequate commitment from the local government in effective development of grassroots. Four research questions and four null hypotheses were developed to guide the study. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study was made up of 590,629 adults o...
ABSTRACT The study looked at the employee participation in decision making and labour stability taking into consideration Organization for Rural Development (ORU1~E), Jinja as a case study. The study was guided by the following objectives: - Establishing the level of employee participation on decision making at ORUDE — Jinja To determine the rate of labour stability at Organization for Rural Development — Jinja To detennine the relationship between employee participation and labour stabil...
ABSTRACT The researcher established the extent to which institutional factors contributed to poor project implementation in most NGOs. Although several institutional factors influenced project implementation, this study nevertheless was l!rnited to the influence of leadership, financial and human resources, BURUDI was selected as a case study to understand the contribution of these variables to poor project implementation. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to collect data...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to analyze the influence of wage levels on the performance of employees at Kagando rural development Centre in Kisinga town council Kasese district. A descriptive and analytical research design was used. A relation between the constructs of wage levels and employee performance was carried out to test the direction and strength of the relationship between the variables. Primary data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. A regression an...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out on desertification and rural development in Akokoro sub-county where by Akokoro sub-county was used as the case study. The study objectives included to establish the extent of desertification in Akokoro sub-county, to find out the extent of development in Akokoro sub-county, to establish if there is significant relationship between the level of desertification and the level of rural development. These guided the study and determined the data that the researc...
ABSTRACT The major purpose of this study was to assess whether credit schemes has got substantial relationship with rural development. Find out how rural development can be achieve through running some mall micro credit institutions with the local community and determine peoples’ attitudes towards it. Micro credit institutions basically handle small savings, giving small loans to identified beneficiaries and they normally generate their funding from the membership fee collections, pre-loan ...
ABSTRACT The researcher established the extent to which institutional factors contributed to poor project implementation in most NGOs, Although several institutional factors influenced project implementation, this study nevertheless was limited to the influence of leadership, financial and human resources. BURUDI was selected as a case study to understand the contribution of these variables to poor project implementation. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to collect data,...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted in two localities in Kordofan State one of them En-nuhoud locality, West Kordofan State and Aldebibat locality South Kordofan state during 2015 - 2018 to Adoption of Draught Animals by Farmers. The study based on a cross-sectional survey with a sample of 200 farmers that was selected from ten different villages around En-nuhoud and Aldebibat areas. Villages were selected using the simple random sampling technique, while individuals from each village were sele...