- Author(s): Dr. Orimogunje, O. P. and Dr. Aromolaran, O. F.
- Volume 11, No 1, 2023
Obviously, community participation is germane to promoting social infrastructural development. The essence is that for any form of development to be enhanced there is need for the whole hearted individual and citizens’ participation in such development process. This paper examined the impact of citizen’s participation in promoting social infrastructural development in Nigeria. The paper creates the necessary awareness about the ways of achieving virile community participation in the identification, planning and implementation of projects such as; housing, water supply, road and electricity, markets and health facilities. The paper examined concept of community
participation, concept of social infrastructural development, relevant development theory, stages of community participation vis-à-vis nexus between community participation and sustainable social infrastructural development. The paper concludes that project planners, development agents, government officials, community leaders and other stakeholders in development process should be conscious of the fact that community participation is paramount in the implementation of development programme hence, the need to work hand in hand with the community people to achieve the laudable objectives of development programmes.