The Role Of Cooperative In Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study Of Selected Cooperative Societies In Kaduna South Local Government Area

The Role Of Cooperative In Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study Of Selected Cooperative Societies In Kaduna South Local Government Area 

Chapter one

Preface

1.0 Background Of The Study

In Nigeria moment, poverty has come a major problem facing the country. The question has been asked, how can this problem of poverty, which is effecting our frugality be soothed. Several government bodies have been set up to find result to that. still, it’s important to find out what poverty is each about and the meaning of collaborative by different scholars, and combine the two together for us to have a clearer of the purpose of this study.

According to Oxford wordbook, poverty is a state of being poor. It’s incapability of a ménage to induce acceptable income for the conservation of the house members. That’s to say, it can be defined from the point of view of income, and that’s the general input by which poverty can be estimated. A Poor person means a person who’s unfit to find a job, gain acceptable income, unfit to enjoy property, and maintain a good healthy condition. This is the sign of poverty we’re talking about.

On the other hand, cooperative is a miracle that denotes any form of working together freely by persons or individualities to achieve common pretensions. To constrict it down collaborative refers to the conditioning of an association of persons with analogous social, artistic and profitable requirements who willingly come together to

satisfy these need in solidarity. In other words collaborative was born as a result of response against capitalism, competition and shafts that associated with them. Cooperatives is a purely service acquainted to their members rather than profit acquainted.

The collaborative members integrated their coffers, for the satisfaction of their members linked need. Beside, a tree can not make a timber; people from different places can come together and pool their coffers together to satisfy their anticipation.

still, grounded on these, collaborative is the stylish way of diving the imperishable profitable problem of a developing country like Nigeria where a lesser chance of people live below poverty position. This is presumably what informs the Federal Government in 1979 to formulate a policy guideline, that at least 25 of Nigerians should come cooperators.

The Danish people saw in collaborative as easier way of perfecting their public frugality, especially after the war with Germany and their humiliating defeat which contributed to public poverty. They went into creation of the profitable interest of their people( Okechukwu 2001). Swedish people embraced cooperation because of the need to ameliorate the profitable interest of their people. Everybody was made to share in one form of chosen profitable exertion or the others.

In Africa, particularly in Nigeria this has made the Federal Government to have several poverty relief schemes similar as National Agricultural Food Production Programme( NAFPP), River Basin Development Authority( RBDA), Agricultural Development Programme( ADP), Operation Feed the Nation( OFN) National Directorate of Employment( NDE), Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme( ACGS), National Poverty Eradication Programme( NAPED), National Economic commission Strategy( requirements) Family Support Programme.( FSP), Better life for Rural Women, family profitable Advancement Programme, and others. Some state government, weren’t left out in trying to find out how poverty could be soothed. Cooperatives as socio- profitable institutions through their conditioning are could be a potent tool for poverty relief particularly in fighting poverty and severance. This could be in the area of husbandry, provision of infrastructural installations and education.

thus in Kaduna State, particularly in Kaduna South Original Government Area, the exploration exertion is conducted so as to know the position or the impact of collaborative in reducing poverty.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Cooperatives are at work in nearly every country and profitable sector. It’s generally honored that cooperatives respond effectively to the ever- changing requirements of people. For illustration, in response to the goods of globalization, people

continue to choose cooperatives to address their requirements. In a number of countries, people are starting new collaborative enterprises in similar areas as social care and information technology. Women and youth are also choosing the collaborative form to start enterprises of their own, therefore creating new jobs and openings. The collaborative advantage extends to the druggies of cooperatives and indeed to the communities in which they operate. Cooperatives set assiduity norms by putting into practice their values and ethics. In some countries, cooperatives are seen as leaders in promoting food safety and security, and in guarding the terrain. Still in others, cooperatives are erecting peaceful societies by promoting understanding and collaboration among people of different artistic and income backgrounds. Indeed there’s a conventional logic that collaborative presents the most feasible channel out of poverty in developing countries.

It’s in the light of the below understanding that led the Nigerian Government at all situations to promote the use of collaborative in poverty reduction sweats. nonetheless cooperatives in Nigeria are still known to be racked with problems including, lack of capital, lack of access to credit installations, poor operation, misappropriation of finances, etc. While sweats are being made by stakeholders of collaborative in Nigeria to remove and/ or reduce these problems, there’s an apparent agreement that the need for acceptable and sufficient knowledge of the part of cooperatives in poverty relief still exists. For illustration there’s a need to identify and assay in sufficient details those collaborative conditioning and functions

that bear directly on the profitable commission of members, as well as relating factors that could promote and enhance collaborative sweats in poverty reduction. Unless these issues are known and appreciated, the emphasis on collaborative as a poverty easing platform may continue to be unrealistic.

objects OF THE STUDY

Generally, the ideal is to find out how collaborative societies in Kaduna South Original Government Area( LGA) are used as a tool for poverty relief.

The specific objects include

1. Examine the particular characteristics of members of cooperatives in Kaduna South LGA

2. To find out the type of poverty current in the Kaduna South LGA.

3. To examine the places played by collaborative societies to attack the poverty in the original government area.

4. To assay the impact of collaborative conditioning in poverty reduction in the area.

5. To identify factors affecting performance of collaborative in poverty relief conditioning in the area.

6. To make recommendation grounded on the findings

Exploration Questions

i. What are the biographies of members of cooperatives in Kaduna South LGA?

ii. What type of poverty is current in Kaduna South LGA?

iii. What are the places collaborative societies in Kaduna South LGA play in reducing poverty?

iv. To what extent does collaborative come a means to poverty relief?

v. If collaborative organisation can palliate poverty what type of poverty?

vi. What types of collaborative society can help?

Significance Of The Study

Poverty has come a trouble to the Nigeria society ingeneral.However, there would be a measurable value to the following

If the findings of this study is everything to go by.

1. To the poor, to know the working of the collaborative in the Kaduna South LGA. This will go a long way in aiding them to reduce poverty, by established collaborative societies.

2. To the staffs of the collaborative society, this work can serve as a glass which collaborative staff can see their objects targets, achievement and importantly people perception.

3. To the Federal Government they can use this work as a mark to measure effectiveness of collaborative societies. The Government can through this work know applicable way to be taken in perfecting the working of collaborative societies.

4. To Nigeria in general, the work can be of immense donation. This can be used to know the types and situations of poverty being in Nigeria and the step taken by the government in bridling the imminence.

Compass And Limitation Of The Study

The focus of this study is to find out how collaborative societies in Kaduna South LGA can palliate poverty. This is limited to named registered collaborative societies in Kaduna South Original Government Area.

It could have covered the total of Kaduna State, but due to the following, factors it’s rigorously limited to Kaduna South Original Government. The factors are

Time Due to constraint of time, the period in which exploration is to be carried out is short, the experimenter thus have to elect many collaborative societies in Kaduna South Original Government Area.

Cost and Insufficient Data As a result of increase in transport chow, the experimenter couldn’t be suitable to visit the whole collaborative societies in Kaduna South LGA.

On the other hand, the repliers couldn’t release all the necessary documents and information about their societies.

Low position of Education Most replier aren’t adequately educated, they set up it delicate to read and fill the questionnaire and this limited the information for the experimenter.

In malignancy of the below limitations, the results of the disquisition could be said to be valid and dependable at the time of the study.