Institutional Framework for Sustainable Community Engagement for Development in Nigeria

Abstract

Institutional Framework for Sustainable Community Engagement for Development is a study of the platform, concept, framework, bodies, organs, and social constructs that are used to facilitate the involvement and participation of the community in its developmental activities, or the process to facilitate the communities to buy into policies and programmes of the government or other Local, National, and international development institutions in rural and urban communities. The main objective is to find out the necessity and how best to mobilize the communities to participate and achieve optimum results for their benefits. The data was gathered and analyzed using the secondary data collection process. Also, the study made use of the Maxian Conflict resolution and system approach as its Theoretical framework, as engagement with communities involves interdependence of component structures of the society with vested interests which leads to conflicts, its resolution, new conflicts, and new resolutions in thesis, synthesis and antithesis (Ryan Law, 2021). The findings are that it is critical to engage the community through an all-inclusive stakeholders’ consensus to ensure their collective buy in through a participatory rural appraisal of bottom to top in doing a needs assessment for their Development to avoid unmanageable conflicts. It is strongly recommended that for the sustainability of value adding projects with positive multiplier effects, there should be no imposition of projects from the top of the endogenous factors or from any of the exogenous factors through the active participation, collaboration, and direct involvement of all segments of the community through An-All Stakeholders inclusive

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