Impact of N-power (N-teach) Program on the Livelihood of Beneficiaries in Gombe State (2018 - 2021) (original) (raw)

Gombe journal of General Studies (GJGS), 2022

Abstract

Abstract This study focused on the impact of N-Power Teach programme on the livelihood of beneficiaries in Gombe state. The Federal Government of Nigeria over the years has come up with youth’s related policies and programmes, however, it is on record that these policies and programmes did not yielded the desired results. In an effort to reduce poverty among the youths, the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2016 also designed the N-Power Programme. The study was set to identify the impact of N-Power Teach programme on the livelihood of beneficiaries in Gombe state using access to basic needs of food, clothe and shelter, income distribution and healthcare status as indicators. Literatures on the concepts and previous empirical studies carried out by other scholars in the field were critically examined. The theoretical framework adopted by the study was Optimal Theory of Pareto (1971). The research design was basically a survey research and data were generated from primary sources with questionnaire as the instrument for generating the data. The population of the study was 1667 drawn from the 2016 beneficiaries of the N-power Teach (N-Teach) in Kaltungo, Balanga, Akko, Dukku, Gombe and Yelmatu Deba Local governments of Gombe State while Taro Yamane Formula was used to arrive at the sample size. Balloting method was used to select two local governments in each senatorial district of the state while cluster sampling was used in categorizing the respondents into different local governments while simple random sampling technique was employed in administering the questionnaire. Data gathered based on the hypotheses formulated were presented in frequency tables and analyzed using Chi-square Test. The study’s findings revealed that there was an increase in the monthly income, access to basic needs of food, clothe and shelter as well as health status of N-power beneficiaries during N-power programme and some beneficiaries have used the programme to acquire entrepreneur skill. Therefore, it is recommended that, government should provide interest free loans to interested volunteers to start up their small or medium scale enterprises and the federal government should ramp up pressures on state governments to absorb some of the volunteers in a more permanent capacity in their civil service. Keywords: N-Power, Livelihood, Poverty, beneficiary

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