Anambra State Community Choose Your Project Initiative and Infrastructural Development under the Obiano Administration, 2014-2022
Keywords:
Anambra State Community Choose Your Project Initative, Community, Development, InfrastructureAbstract
This paper examined the impact of Community Choose their Project Initiative (CPI) on Community Development in Anambra State between 2014 and 2022. The This study adopted the descriptive survey research design, while the Empowerment theory of development formed the theoretical framework of analysis. The study discovered that; Community Choose Your Project Initiative impacted on the provision of water bore hole, construction of roads, markets and healthcare facilities in Anambra State under the Obiano Administration, 2014-2022. Community project initiative has impacted on the provision of infrastructure/ social amenities. The study concluded that community-based or community-dictated development approach involves the movement of the people designed to promote better living for the whole community within the active participation of, and if possible on the initiative of the community concerned. Based on the foregoing, the study recommended that; since the Community Chose Your Project Initiative impacted on community development through the provision of water bore holes, markets, construction of roads and healthcare facilities, local governments should involve their communities in the inherence and protection of public facilities provided for them such as electricity, pipe-borne water school building, health facilities, among others, such community involvement has the potential of creating an enormous sense of community.
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