Examining the challenges to Community Choose Your Project Initiative to Community Development in Anambra State under the Obiano Administration, 2014-2022

Abstract

Policies of government often times fail to achieve its major objectives and this could be attributed to several factors both political, social, economic and sometimes cultural. This paper examines the challenges faced by the Community Choose their Project Initiative (CPI) towards Community Development in Anambra State between 2014 and 2022.  This study adopted the descriptive survey research design the Participatory Rural Approach (PRA) was adopted as the theoretical framework of analysis. The study discovered that; bad leadership, absence of accountability and political interference among other challenges impinged community development in Anambra State under the Obiano Administration, 2014-2022. 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; the government should set up grass root institutions to help in the fight against bad leadership, while at the same time leaders at the communities should as a mater fact be ready to give stewardship for the use of public scarce resources. This study has contributed to knowledge by engaging in an expository study of the impact of Community Choose their Project Initiative (CPI) on Community Development in Anambra State between 2014 and 2022 which is believed to be a bottom-top approach to community development.