Nevertheless abject poverty and underdevelopment remains a common feature in these rural communities. The Role of Local Government in Rural Development Issues staff to implement and supervise the projects.

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The fiscal practices grossly skewed in favour of the central government couple with.

What are the roles of local government in rural development. Local governments influence local development in various ways including expenditures taxes and duties laws and marketing among others. Page 6 of 29 implementation and operation levels. The focus of this initial discussion is to highlight the role of local authorities in rural economic development how the Rural Vision was produced with cross-party support across rural authorities and an initial.

The local government serves as a form of political and administrative structure facilitating decentralization national integration efficiency in governance and a sense of belonging at the grassroots. This first digital discussion kicks off a series of podcasts to disseminate the learning from the ROBUST project in Wales particularly focusing on the key themes of the Rural Vision for Wales. The paper posits that the Nigerian political arrangement negates the essence of federalism which is decentralization by being highly centralized.

Activities of local authorities have considerable influence on the development of the agricultural sector and rural areas. In rural areas the role of territorial governments is particularly. St1 Draft SALGA position paper.

Hence local government is visibly seen as co-agent of rural development and as partners in progress with both states and federal governments. Rural areas Local government has been created essentially to compliment the efforts of the states and national government in the task of rural development. Questionnaire and interview are employed in data collection.

The importance of local government is a function of its ability to generate sense of belongingness safety and satisfaction among its populace. This work assesses the role of Local Government in rural development with Soba Local Government of Kaduna State as case study. The importance of local government is a function of its ability to generate sense of belongingness safety and satisfaction among its populace.

Hence among the effective role of the local government Anaocha local government is the provision of two way communication channel between the ltolas communities and the central government through the mobilization of human and material resources at the grass root. The local government is a unit of administration all over the world Agagu 2004. The contribution of local government in the development of the rural areas.

In terms of Schedule 4 Part A of the Constitution urban and rural development is a functional area of concurrent competence between. The central aim or focus of this paper is to highlight the role of local government being the closest tier of government to the grassroots in rural development. Role of local government in rural development and agriculture support.

Local government has been the root of development in terms of dealings with the people which democracy is centred upon. It has been used as an instrument for fostering development and implementing rural development in the grass root level. The study identifies inadequate personnel and finance as the main problems of Local Government in Nigeria.

The expediency for the creation of local government anywhere in the world stems from the need to facilitate development at the grassroots. Local government is an agent of grass roots development because of its indispensible role in mobilizing local resources for meaningful socio-economic and political changes in the rural areas. One key part of the institutional system of the EU is the local government.

In Nigeria the local government as the third tier of government has played a major role and has contributed immensely to the growth and development of the rural dwellers. Nevertheless abject poverty and underdevelopment remains a common feature in these rural communities. Society and the obvious inability of the national and state governments in the task of rural areas Local government has been created essentially to compliment the efforts of the states and national government in the task of rural development.

V Self-help strategy has been characterized by duplication and haphazardness due in the main to lack of co-ordination between government and communal efforts and initiatives. The expediency for the creation of local government anywhere in the world stems from the need to facilitate development at the grassroots.