ABSTRACT
This study took critical and evaluation of the Ebonyi State Based Poverty Reduction and youth skill acquisition in Ebonyi State from 2005 to 2015.
The study aimed broadly at establishing relationship between EBCPRC and poverty alleviation in the rural communities of Ebonyi State and specifically ascertaining whether the of EBCPRA’s fund encouraged the provision of skill acquisition centres in Ebonyi State from 2005 to 2015,
and to evaluate the impact of The building of skill acquisition centres in Ebonyi State on the youths empowerment.
The structural-functional theory was our explanatory guide in the . The descriptive survey method was adopted to elicit data from a targeted population through questionnaire and statistically analyzed.
Primary and secondary data was used. Logical conclusions was made based on the fact that the hypotheses tested was accepted.
Finally, recommendations was made as: The donor agencies, international organizations, government and non-governmental organizations should not relent in funding EBCPRA so as to ensure a total eradication of poverty in Ebonyi State.
The youths should be encouraged to participate in the skill trainings of the skill acquisition centres.Ebonyi State government should endeavor to establish the youths who have completed their training with the working tools.
Soft loans and grants should be made available to the youths after their training so as to start their own enterprise.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page……….i
Approval Page………….ii
Dedication……….iii
Acknowledgement……..iv
Table of Contents…….v
List of Tables………..vi
Abstract…..vii
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study…….1
1.2 Statement of the Problem……4
1.3 Objective of the Study………….. 9
1.4 Significance of the Study………..…10
CHAPTER TWO: Literature Review
2.1 Fund Management and Provision of Skill Acquisition Centres…….…12
2.2 Building of Skill Acquisition Centres and Youth Skill Acquisition…….23
CHAPTER THREE: Methodology
3.1 Theoretical Framework…………………..36
3.2 Hypotheses……42
3.3 Research Design…………42
3.4 Methods of Data Collection………43
3.5 Methods of Data Analysis………….44
3.6 Logical Data Framework………45
CHAPTER FOUR: Fund Management and Provision of Skill Acquisition Centres
4.1 Disbursement of Fund for Projects and the Building of Civic/Skill Acquisition Centre in Izzi LGA .47
4.2 Building of Market Stalls in Abakaliki LGA and Youths Involvement in Trade…….48
CHAPTER FIVE: Building of Market Stalls in Abakaliki LGA and Youths Involvement in Trade.
5.1 Agbataobi Nwanne Progressive Union Civic/Skill Acquisition Centre and Youth involving in tailoring and welding jobs….65
5.2 Edda Women’s League Skill Acquisition Centre and the Youths’ Participation in fashion designing and decoration….66
CHAPTER SIX: Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations
6.1 Summary…….81
6.2 Conclusion………….82
6.3 Recommendations…83
Bibliography……84
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Poverty reduction in Nigeria has remained a persistent issue to the development of the country. Several policies and agencies have been employed in combatting the menace of the poverty.
Nigeria with the population of about 170 million are predominantly poor with the percentage of about 65% living in abject poverty (NBS, 2010). The poor populace are
predominantly the rural dwellers, and this informs the major reasons for the rural-urban migration in Nigeria, which poses some challenges to the development and administration of the metropolitan government (Nkwede, 2014).
Rural areas in Nigeria are known to have accounted for about 80% of foreign exchange earnings and 70% of government revenues (UNDP, 2008).
But it is unfortunate that rural areas in Nigeria have been bedeviled with untold hardship, endemic poverty and protracted squalor, with its consequent side effect on national planning and development (UNDP, 2008)
Paradoxically, the issue of poverty has been in existence since the evolvement of Nigeria as a nation.
Report of the Federal Office of Statistics (1999) showed that between 1970s and early 1990s the poverty level in Nigeria stood at 27% but subsequently jumped to 46% as at 1996 when most of the countries within the poverty bracket were moving toward complete eradication of poverty in their respective states (Osagie, 2007).
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