Intervention of NGOs for Sustainable Community Development in Ilorin-South Local Government Area of Kwara State

Abstract

Sustainable community development of not new and it enhances the
idea of serving the present need of community people and meeting the
need of generation unborn in that same communities. The intervention
of Non-governmental Organizations and their contributions cannot be
over emphasised. That is why this paper is trying to examine the
intervention of Non-governmental organizations for sustainable
community development in Ilorin-South. The data collected from this
study were quantified using descriptive statistic, mean and standard
deviation for the research questions. The findings show that there are
many private, social and religious owned NGOs in the local government
area of study. The findings also revealed that the role of NGOs improves
the sustainable community development projects in the area of study as
well. The result also revealed that NGOs fund the sustainable community
development projects and that there are many NGOs in Ilorin-South
Local Government Area. It was also established that NGOs play an
important roles in improving sustainable community development projects that available in their communities for the betterment of their
living. The paper recommended that NGOs should continue to intervene
in community development services for the social, economic, welfare
and development of peoples’ communities. Also, NGOs should focus
their interventions on activities that would enable them to reduce the
marginalised and disadvantaged sectors of the communities to improve
the circumstances of the communities’ livelihood for sustainable
community development in their communities.