THE PROBLEM OF POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA A CASE STUDY OF NATIONAL POVERTY ERADICATION PROGRAMME (NAPEP) IMO STATE

Abstract

This project dealt on the problems of policy implementation in Nigeria public sector ( A case study of National Poverty Eradication programme (NAPEP) in chapter ones are discussed in details the background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, significance  of the study and research question. Chapter two the researcher dealth with the literature review under which in one way or the other gave useful suggestion to the stated research problem. Chapter three used in this study, research design method of data collection , sample size, sampling techniques. In chapter four treated presentation and of data under which only question relating to the research question were used in the study and calculation was based on the responses from the questionnaire distributed. Finally in chapter five, the researcher made her summary and recommendations  to the establishments of the topic the problem of policy implementation in Nigeria public sector ( A case study of national poverty eradication programme Imo state)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page                                         i

Approval page                                          ii

Dedication                                        iii

Acknowledgement                              iv

Abstract                                           v

Table of contents                               vi

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 Introduction                                1

1. Background of the study                     1
2. Statement of the problem            4
3. Objectives of the study                5
4. Research Questions                     6
5. Significance of the study              7
6. Scope of the study                      9
7. Limitations of the study                      9
8. Definition of terms                             10

CHAPTER TWO

• Literature review                                14
• Introduction                                      14
• The structure of policy making under a

democratic government in Nigeria        17

• council of state                                  21
• Federal executive council                     23
• State executive                           23
• Organizational structure of NAPEP  25
• Implementation gap                           28
• Aims and objectives of the national

Poverty eradication programme in Nigeria     32

NAPEP interventions in poverty alleviation     33

Findings of national poverty Eradication programme/achievements   35

       References                                               38

CHAPTER THREE

3.0  Research methodology                              39

3.1  Introduction                                             39

3.2  Research Design                                       40

3.3  Methods of data collections                        40

3.4  Population and Sample size                        41

3.5  Sampling techniques                                 42

3.6  Data Analysis techniques                            44

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0  Data presentation                                     45

4.1  Data Analysis                                           46

4.2  Research findings                                      52

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0  Summary, conclusion and Recommendation 54

5.1  Summary                                                54

5.2  Conclusion                                              55

5.3    Recommendation                             57

        Bibliography                                     60

        Appendix                                         62

        Questionnaire.                                  63

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1  BACKGROND OF THE STUDY

       Stripped of all technicalities, implementation problem in most developing nations is the problem of a reddening gap between intentions and results.  Honadle (1991) tried to identify the problem associated with policy implementation as that of social carpenters and masons who fail to build to specifications and thus distort the blueprint. He was equating policy with building plan. Quoting him he said. “Implication is the nemesis of designers, it conjures up images of plans gone every end of social carpenters and masons who fail to build to specifications and thereby distort the beautiful blue prints for progress which were handed to them”.

       The above quotations show the importance that is attached to policy implementation and those that are responsible for implementing these policies. It is shown that no matter how beautiful the blue print of a programme is, a defective implementation of it will make nonsense of the whole programme.

       Unfortunately, the situation as described by Honadle above is what goes on in Nigeria. As stated by Eyonmuan (1971) implementation in these country often turns out to be the graveyard of policy where the intentions of the designer of policies are often undermined by a constellation in cooperation with people little attention is paid to the subject of policy implementation by policy decision makers while it is often taken for granted that once a policy is adopted by government it must be implemented and the desired goals achieved. There is policy failure when there is a sizeable gap between a policy decision and its implementation. Such a gap is characterized. For example, by the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer in spite of the stated policy goal to the contrary.

       Despite the plethora of poverty alleviation programme which past  government had initiated and implemented, by 1999 when the Obasanjo administration came to power a world Banks report indicated that Nigeria’s Human Development index  (HDI) was only 0416 and that about 70 percent of the population was vegetating below the brand line.