Abstract
The study investigated development gap in social policy and social problem interaction by examining impact of National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) on rural communities in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to examine the relationship between non-participation of beneficiary communities in NAPEP project design at community level, corruption and policy implementation strategy on rural poverty reduction. The Ex-post facto research design was adopted to study communities in Oron and Udung Uko local government areas in Akwa Ibom State. Using a multistage sampling procedure, data were obtained from 400 respondents using Taro Yamene sample size determination formula. Data were analysed using Chi-square (X2) statistical technique. Main findings indicated that significant relationship exists between non-participation of beneficiary communities in NAPEP project design, corruption, policy implementation and poverty reduction in rural communities. The findings imply that NAPEP has not significantly achieved its goal of poverty reduction in rural communities. It has failed to elicit economic wellbeing priorities directly from target communities. Poverty can be reduced through accommodative and humanistic arrangements by allowing communities to identify welfare projects and eligible recipients. Rural dwellers have not experienced poverty reduction because of NAPEP development strategy gap.
Highlights
The “world is making quantum efforts in conquering global poverty
Since the calculated (X2) valve of 42.46 was found to be greater than the critical (X2) valve of 7.81 needed at 0.05 level of significance, with 3 degree of freedom, the null hypothesis which states that there is no significant association between non-participation of beneficiary http:// www.amazoniainvestiga.info communities and poverty reduction promotion among rural dwellers in terms of improved income was rejected in favor of the alternate hypothesis
This means that the non-participation of beneficiary communities has a significant association with the poverty reduction among rural dwellers
Summary
The “world is making quantum efforts in conquering global poverty. Since 1990, a quarter of the world has extricated itself from extreme poverty with less than $1.90 per day. As households overcome the poverty trap, an individual’s social and economic lives experience qualitative improvement. Since 1990, the percentage of child mortality from preventable causes such as poverty, hunger and disease has drastically reduced “falling from more than 35,000 a day to under 15,000” (World Vision, 2019). “ remarkable progress has been achieved in combating global extreme poverty, material deprivation and subjective wellbeing are still serious challenges in SubSaharan Africa. Even as poverty alleviation methods are still being implemented, poverty is exacerbated by conflict, poor governance, climate change and natural disasters, etc. SubSaharan African communities have consistency experienced rising incidence of people living in poverty” (World Vision, 2019)
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