Effect of Local Government Community Development Programme On Poverty Reduction in Ebonyi State, Nigeria 2023 - 2025.

Abstract

The study is an attempt to investigate the effect of local government community development programs on poverty reduction using Ebonyi state as a case study. The work anchored on the capability theory adopted descriptive survey design. The population of the study is 2,176,947 from which a sample size of 400 was drawn. It relied on primary and secondary data for its data collection. The data collected were analysed in tables, percentages and weighted mean and regression and T tests were used to test the hypotheses. Findings of the study show  that Ebonyi state local government system has not seriously engaged in infrastructural development that actually increases household income of local community dwellers between 2023 – 2025 and that the effect of local government’s health and education services on household income which determines the poverty rate of residence of Ebonyi state community dwellers is positive and significant at 5% of significance, which  implies that Ebonyi state local government system have done well in rendering health and education services in the local communities between the period 2023 and 2025. We recommendations that Ebonyi state local government system should seriously engage in infrastructural development which will enhance the increase of household income of local community dwellers, consequently, leading to poverty reduction in Ebonyi state local governments communities and that Ebonyi state local government system should increase the number of health centres in the local communities and step up their effort in the maintenance of primary schools in local communities to increase the income of community dwellers as well as reduce poverty. Finally, since the federal and state governments have been committing resources into poverty alleviation programmes, it is recommended that such resources should be released to the local governments and closely monitors the management of such resources with the view of bringing to book any one that mismanages or embezzles the resources