AN IMPACT ANALYSIS OF PARTICIPATION IN NIGERIA’S POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (PRSP) PROCESS

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dc.contributor.authorAGBONIKA, HENRY ANIBE
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-07T09:23:47Z
dc.date.available2014-11-07T09:23:47Z
dc.date.issued2014-05
dc.descriptionTHESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE IN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION. DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS FACULTY OF ARTS AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA MAY, 2014en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study was carried out to investigate the impact of participation as a communicative act in Nigeria’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process which was introduced by the World Bank and IMF as a new approach to tackling the challenges of poverty alleviation and economic development among their low-income clients. Acknowledged as a critical and integral part of the whole process by the World Bank and the IMF, was participation which was meant to induce ownership, ensure accountability, transparency and sustainability, and effectively contribute to the reduction of poverty. Deriving from the premise that communication is the lifeblood of participatory development…participation is communication …(Dagron 2007), this study investigated the extent to which participation induced ownership; ensured accountability, transparency, and sustainability, and contributed to the effective reduction of poverty in Nigeria. Adopting the case study approach and a triangulation of sources, the study arrived at the conclusion that participation in the PRSP in no way induced ownership, neither did it ensure accountability, transparency and accountability; therefore not able to contribute in any way to poverty reduction. The principal reason for the failure of the PRSP as evident in this study is the absence of participation. There was the absence of communication architecture upon which participation would be based; neither was there a system that participation could derive from. Rather it was the case of a team of technocrats who had arrogated the powers of participation unto themselves. Undergirded by Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action, the study advocates for the democratization of communicative spaces which would give people hitherto excluded the legal framework to be part of decision making processes affecting their lives and wellbeing; it also advocates for structural changes that would address issues of power and ultimately resource distribution and by implication poverty reduction. The democratization of communicative spaces and structural changes constitute the architecture and system upon which participation can thrive and have a meaning.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5570
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectIMPACT,en_US
dc.subjectANALYSIS,en_US
dc.subjectPARTICIPATION,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIA’Sen_US
dc.subjectPOVERTY,en_US
dc.subjectREDUCTION,en_US
dc.subjectSTRATEGY,en_US
dc.subjectPAPER,en_US
dc.subject(PRSP)en_US
dc.subjectPROCESS.en_US
dc.titleAN IMPACT ANALYSIS OF PARTICIPATION IN NIGERIA’S POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (PRSP) PROCESSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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