IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIAL WELFARE RESEARCH (JPASWR )

E-ISSN 2504-3597
P-ISSN 2695-2440
VOL. 8 NO. 2 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56201/jpaswr.v8.no2.2023.pg16.34

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Social Intervention Programmes and Rural Development in Nigeria, A Study of Federal Government’s Trader-moni initiative. A study of Cross River State

Dede Chinyere Helen, Ezor, Kelvin Isaac, Bassey, Prince Etim, Ambulifel Joseph Akwugiobe

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Abstract

Over the decades different ruling politicial government had adopted different typologies and models of rural development programmes to drive her quest for sustainable rural development and self actualization. National development is but wishful in the absence of rural development. In 2016, a World Bank report showed that ninety-five millions, six hundred and four thousand, two hundred and fifty five (95,604,255) people in Nigeria live in rural areas. Efforts towards developing strategies for improving economic and social life of these indigent citizens have evidently achieved little success. Panting on a mountain of campaign promises, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, faced with disproportionate development balance along urban/rural dichotomy initiated the Trader Moni scheme, an interest free loan which is part under the Government Enterprises and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) that ensures initial cash transfer of ten thousand naira (N10, 000), and could rise to hundred thousand naira (N100, 000), to specifically petty traders and artisans across the country. This study seeks to examine the focus and strategies of this policy by querying the efficacy of its thrust. It sets to find out whether the policy formulation and strategy of implementation followed an inquiry into the felt need of the beneficiaries. The study intends to ascertain the extent to which the beneficiaries participate in the formulation of this scheme and ultimately their programmed of the proceeds. The study follows the analytical framework of endogenous development theory which explains rural development as a product of combination, animation and maximization of rural resources. The study will observe the triangulation of documented data from

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