Analysis of Community Participation in Millennium Development Goals

Community participation is commonly understood as the collective involvement of people in accessing the programmes and projects that are designed to cater for their needs. The importance of community participation in millennium development goals wealth creation programmes and project is non negotiable. Communities in Anambra State lacks some basic infrastructures (e.g. road network; health care; electricity water affordable education etc) which are capable of improving their quality of life. The study examined the effects of community participation on rural development with reference to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) wealth creation programmes in Anambra State. The sample size of 318 respondents were determined through multistage sampling technique. Data gotten were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics with the help of SPSS version 20. Evidence from the result revealed that Anambra State MDGs has initiated and implemented various rural wealth creation programmes at different community of intervention.