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This
work analyzes the prospect and challenges of the new millennium development
goals (MDGs) in Nigeria. Millennium development goals are eight bound
inter-national development goals the world leaves endorsed at the united nation
millennium summit. It aimed to reducing the pre-dominant level of poverty in
the world especially the third world countries. In gathering the information;
the researcher distribute questionnaire to the selected respondents and a
simple face to face interview was also used. The data collected was analysis
and hypothesis was tested using chi-square (x2) test hypothesis.
Recommendation made to government in meeting the target come 2015 include;
aggressive investment in poverty reduction. Schemes both by the public
non-governmental institutions should be embark massive investment in
agriculture and rural economic development etc.
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
TITLE
PAGE:
APPROVAL
PAGE:
DEDICATION:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
ABSTRACT:
TABLE
OF CONTENTS:
CHAPTER ONE:
INTRODUCTION:
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY:
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTION:
1.5 HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY:
1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:
1.7 SIGNIFICANCES OF THE STUDY:
1.8 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY:
CHAPTER
TWO:
LITERATURE
REVIEW:
2.1 NIGERIA AND MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
(MDGS):
2.2 STRUCTURE
OF NIGERIA MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
2.3 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL-POLITICAL PROFILE OF
NIGERIA: 2.4 POVERTY ALLEVIATION
PROGRAMMES IN NIGERIA:
CHAPTER
THREE
RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY:
3.1 RESEARCH SAMPLE DESIGN:
3.2 QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN:
3.3 POPULATION OF THE STUDY:
3.4 SAMPLE METHOD:
3.5 SAMPLE SIZE DETERMINATION:
3.6 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS:
3.7 SOURCES OF DATA:
CHAPTER FOUR:
4.1 DATA PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION:
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY
OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION:
5.1 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS:
5.2 CONCLUSION:
5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS:
REFERENCES
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION:
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Over
the years, the governments of various nations are committed to ensuring the
development of their countries via-a-vis improving their standard of living.
Hence, they put a good number of efforts towards achieving an improved life for
their citizens. Following the united nation millennium declaration at the
millennium summit held 6th and 8th September 2000 in New York. Nigeria
government has been committed to the realization of Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs). The Millennium Development Goals are eight bound inter-national
development goals the world leaders endorsed at the united nation millennium
summit. The Millennium Development Goals represents an agenda setting for
transforming the living condition of all peoples at the turn of third
millennium. These goals were targets for measurable improvement in the lives of
the world poorest citizens.
Hence,
millennium development goals are policies adopted by the world leader with the
hope of bridging the gap between the rich and poor nations of the world and
create new order of partnership, development and prosperity.
The
eight - Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015 include:
·
Eradicate
extreme poverty and hunger
·
Promote
gender equality and empower women.
·
Achieve
under primary education
·
Reduce
child mortality.
·
Combat
HIV/AIDS, malaria and other disease.
·
Ensure
environmental sustainability.
·
Develop
a global partnership for development.
Participating
countries were expected to articulate policies, strategies and plans which will
facilitate the achievements of the eight MDGS, while the united nation
development system was to work closely with countries to facilitate the nation
effort.
Recent
report of UNDP (2011), examine the progress of Nigeria African’ most popular
country towards achieving these goals come 2015. The report concludes that
there is potential to reach some of the targets related to achieving universal
primary education, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a
global partnership for development. However, based on available information, it
is unlikely that the country will be able to meet most of these goals by 2015,
especially the goals related to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, reducing
child mortality and combating HIV/AIDS malaria & other diseases.
Hence,
this work aim to analyse the trend so far in Ebonyi state Nigeria and proffers
some reasonable solution to government as to measures that should be adopted to
increase the nation growth and development.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Under-development
is one concept that has continued to draw the attention of many scholars,
economist, activist and political leaders. Millennium development goals MDGS as
was adopted by the world leader in September 2000 as parameter to ensure the
development of every economy of the countries that are members, it has been
criticized and appraised by many studies. The analyses of Millennium
Development Goals in Nigeria especially Ebonyi state; reveals that Ebonyi is
still very far in actualizing most of the goals come 2015.
Today, Nigeria is ranked among the poorest
countries in the world. The fight against poverty has been a central plank of
development planning since independence in
1960 and about fifteen ministries, fourteen specialized agencies, and nineteen donor agencies and non-governmental organizations
have been involved in the decades of this
crusade but about 70 percent of Nigerians still live in poverty. Thus,
millennium development goals is a researchable problem because its seek to
address issue on poverty, health care, education gender equality, global
partnership for development, as endorsed by the international community to be
achieved by the year 2015. This work is committed towards analyzing the trend
of the millennium development goals in Ebonyi state Nigeria, its prospected
challenges so far since its adoption in Nigeria.
Arguably, Millennium development goals has of today,
taken a centre stage in most governmental activities in the countries at both
federal; state and local government level. It has been argued that Nigeria
being the most populous country in African; third largest economy after South
African and Egypt and with a vast array of natural and human resources has the
potential which is enough for it to compete favourably with other countries of
the G.7 (i.e. United state, Canada, France, Japan, Italy, Germany and United
Kingdom).
One will be tempted to ask why Nigeria as a country
remains in the state of underdevelopment; despite her vast natural resources.
And what is the cause of this her underdeveloped status?
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
This
research work aim at assessing the prospect and challenges of new millennium
development goals. Thus, the work will reviews the overall performance of MDGS
in Nigeria and its prospect toward 2015 MDGS goals. Hence, the specific
objectives include;
1.
To
examine the achievement & progress made so far in the process of
implementation of MDGS.
2.
To
review the key challenges to achieving MDGS in Nigeria.
3.
To
suggest possible policies and strategies which will facilitates the achievement
of the goals.
4.
To
suggest for each of the goals, key priority action that government need to pay
maximum attention.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTION
The
following research question will guide the researcher in the course of this
work. These include;
1.
Why
are some countries under-developed and others developed?
2.
How
is Nigeria, Ebonyi state faring in MDGS?
3.
What
are the challenges towards achieving MDGS in Nigeria?
4.
What
strategies to adopt in realizing MDGS
5.
How
can Nigeria progress in MDGS targets
6.
Why
are some nations realizing the objectives of MDGS
1.5 HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY
The
following hypothesis will guide this study.
H0: Nigeria has not
benefited from millennium development goals (MDGS) projects
H0: Nigeria has not benefited from millennium
development goals (MDGS) projects
1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The
method that will be employed in this research work, to facilitate empirical
testing of the impact and prospects of MDGS in Nigeria is survey method. The
data will be sourced primarily through the questionnaire, secondary sources
which include related literature, text book, journal documents, newspaper,
internet and personal computation.
1.7 SIGNIFICANCES OF THE STUDY
Millennium
Development Goals are policies adopted to accelerate economic growth and
development of United Nation members. This research will be of great help to
the government agencies, students and equally add to exiting developmental
programs of the UNDP, UNICEF and AFRODAD on the importance of the MDGS in
Nigeria.
1.8 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
This
research work, will critically analyze the impact and prospect of the
millennium development goals (MDGS). Analyzing Nigeria experience since it
adoption till date, using Ebonyi state
as a case study. The research work, however is limited by the following constraints;
Data sourcing, since majority of the respondent are at first not free to
respond and it took the researcher time to convinced them. Other factors are
time and financial constraint.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
This
research work attempts to examine the impact and prosper of Millennium
Development Goals on Nigeria economy, the study employed questionnaire as a
method of data collection, and employed chi-square techniques in the estimation
of the data so collected. From the analysis so far, the study shows that by the
year 2015, some of the MDGs goals will be achievable, primary health care in
particular. More so, it has been observed that with the attainment of the
primary health care by the 2015, Nigeria will be termed one (1) among the
development country in the world. Although health is not on a criteria /
indicator for development, but it plays a major role in determining and
estimating the living standard of people living within the country. Furthermore,
it is observed that MDGS has served as a link between the federal state and
local government, thereby bridging the gap between the rich and the poor. This
indicates that government has live-up to expectation in the implementation of
MDGS’.
5.2 CONCLUSION
This
research work, attempt to examine; if
Nigeria has benefited adequately from the implementation of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGS) project. This study has established the fact that MDGS
project has indeed achieve some of its objectives in the implementation of its
projects especially in the areas of health care delivery and develop a global
partnership for development. However,
other indicators shows poor trends and deviate widely from the targets
reversing these undesirable trend and accelerating progress towards the MDGS
2015 targets will require bold measures to enhance services delivery, scale up
investment, rationalize resources allocation, improve implementation,
coordination and improve the quality of government spending. Looking
ahead, to the future of Nigeria conclusion is drawn from the point that by the
year 2015 Millennium Development Goals, rate and its indicators will move
Nigeria from developing to developed economy.
5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS
In
the light of the above findings, the following recommendations have been made.
Aggressive investment in
poverty reduction schemes both by the public and non-governmental institutions. Massive investment in
Agriculture and rural economic development; Massive mobilization of
grass root participant in project implementation of MDGs programs. Increase in
allocation of seats to women in political office holding at all the various
stages of governments. Aggressive investment in
health especially in areas that affect child killer diseases; Improvement in the health
care delivery system so as to reduce maternal mortality; Further, strengthening of
the awareness on HIV/AIDS pandemic and other killer diseases; massive
investment in clean air, pipe-borne water and pursuance of productive and
protective environmental. The
government should make polices and take bold measures to enhance services
delivery, scale up investment, rationalize resources allocation, coordination
and improve the quality of government spending. Adequate,
reliable and timely data is a pre-requisite for accurately measuring and
trading the Millennium Development Goals. Most Millennium Development Goals and
indicators have not been adequately evaluated due to large gaps in the data.
Hence, urging the office in charge of data collection, to adequately and
efficiently collate data for easy assessment.
This is because many of the indicators cannot be assessed due to lack of
data.
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