Local Government Capacity In Managing The Education And Health Related Millennium Development Goals Programmes In Kaduna And Zamfara States, Nigeria

📄 Project Abstract

This study examines the capacity of the Local Governments in managing the education and health related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) programmes in selected Local Governments in Kaduna and Zamfara States. The federal government has sunk in enormous 7 resources and effort to strengthen states and local government's capacities in managing the MDGs programme yet there is a wide gap between the performance of the local government and the attainment of the MDGs targets in education and health. Four hypotheses are formulated thus; the MDGs intervention effort in education has no significant impact on the capacity of the local government to manage primary education; the enhanced capacity of the local government has not significantly impacted on the achievement of the MDGs targets in education; the MDGs intervention effort in health has no significant impact on the capacity of the local government to manage primary health care and finally, the enhanced capacity of the local government has...