ASSESSING YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CHIKAJI COMMUNITY, SABON GARI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA
ASSESSING YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CHIKAJI COMMUNITY, SABON GARI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA
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2018-09
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Hamidu, Abdul Abdullahi
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A Paper presented at the Meeting/Workshop/conference of the International Association For Community Development (IACD) held at Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State
Abstract
The trend and rise of a robust national economy especially the Asian give weight to the
notion that the capacity to solve the problems of low income areas lie within the
communities. This implies the use by the community of its current human, socio-economic,
institutional, allocated and physical resources to build a self-sustaining economic system at
the local level. This study is to establish whether or not the activities of the youth have any
effect on the community economic development of Chikaji Community, Sabon Gari, Kaduna
State. The issue is to what extent do the youth community development associations in
Chikaji understand the felt-needs of the community that have bearing on local community
economic development? The study is anchored on the participatory development theory and
Frischman‟s economic theory of infrastructure and commons management. The study
employed both primary and secondary data. The data was analyzed using the highest mean
score, Chi-Square and a decision ruled was used to test the hypothesis. The findings indicated
that the youth community development associations have contributed to the development
infrastructures that have impact local community economic development in spite of lack of
counterpart funding. The study, recommends that the youth community development
association have to embark on serious mobilization of the community members including
those staying outside the community, towards the realization of the essence and relevance of
developing infrastructures. The state and local government should be more proactive on the
issue of counterpart funding towards infrastructural development in the Chikaji community
development
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A Paper presented at the Meeting/Workshop/conference of the International Association
For Community Development (IACD) held at Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun
State from 4th-7th September, 2018.