EVALUATIONOF GOVERNMENT AND DONOR AGENCIES ʼ INTERVENTION PROJECTS IN ADO-EKITI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, EKITI STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Thisstudy evaluated government and donor agencies’ intervention projects in Ado Local Government, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. The study also examined the factors that called for intervention project in Ado Local Government Area; identified the better intervention projects into which government and donor agencies should invest their resources andinvestigated the better focus that the government should have. The study provided answers to some research questions through a well-structured questionnaire designed to collect data from 120 respondents who have been practiciong as stake holders and beneficiaries of executed intervention projects by government and donor agencies in Ado-Ekiti Local Government. Descriptive statistical techniques like frequencies, mean, percentages and pie chart, bar charts were used to describe the observations and responses from the respondents. Inferential statistical techniques such as correlations, test of significance, and regression analysis were used to test for validity, relationship, the before and after effect of intervention project by government donor agencies in the area. The statistical package for social sciences (SPSS), Microsoft and Excel 2013 were used for data presentation and analysis. Results showed that 94% variation in quality of life of Ado-Ekiti Local Government Area was explained by human and environmental development of the area. Poverty had the highest severity of 0.612 relative important index on the economy of the Local Government; though, approximately 80% of government projects and 67% of donor’s intervention projects was carried out on provision of infrastructural facilities. However, effectiveness, satisfaction and meeting goals of the projects, investment on alleviation of poverty has to be increased within the Local Government Area.