ABSTRACT

The focus of this research “An Evaluation of the Impact of NAPEP on Entrepreneurship development in Nigeria” was to access the impact of entrepreneurship activities in Nigeria, a case study of Imo State.

The programme was designed by the government to cater for unemployed youth and jobless person all over the country. To arrive

at my conclusion, I administered a questionnaire with some primary and secondary data on different categories to know the percentage of the response to my analysis. There were 33 questions altogether which were split into different categories. Appendix I, Section A, the questionnaire was administered to both male and female which the response was low (25) in Section B, those that were

aware were just 18 and majority were aware through friends or relations, a few benefited in kind, a few in cash. In section C, assessing the impact, out of 25 people, 21 saw it effective while 4 saw it ineffective. In conclusion here it was discovered th at there is no enough money to meet their challenges which causes poverty / laziness. Under policy implementation majority agreed that the policy does not address multidimensional problems. 66.7% agreed that government and NGOs are needed, while 33.3% dis agreed and 5.6% agree that there are sufficient fund available. From my Chi-square table, the chi-square (x2 c calculated is (2.4994) and the chi-square (X2t) tabulatedis (15.5): if the X2c < X2t, we conclude that there is no positive relationship between NAPEP and Entrepreneurship development which is accepting the null hypothesis (Ho). In enhancing entrepreneurship development in Imo State, we finally recommended that government should monitor funds being allocated to different sectors of the economy for improved activities of NEPEP so that they further assist the beneficiaries for greater and effective participation inthe programme for the interest of the Nigerian economy.

2.6 Economic Perspective on Entrepreneurship

2.7 Nigeria Poverty Alleviation in Enhancing Entrepreneurship–

2.8 Overview: The Entrepreneurship Challenge in Nigeria——-

2.9 Brief History of NAPEP——————————————–

2.10 Constraints on NAPEP in Enhancing Entrepreneurship———

2.11 Summary—————————————————————

CHAPTER THREE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY——————————————-

 Introduction

3.1Research Design———————————————————-

3.2 Sample Size and Sample Technique

3.3 Data Collection————————————————————-

3.3.1 Primary Sources———————————————————–

3.3.2 Secondary Sources——————————————————

3.4 Method of Data Collection———————————————

3.5 Data analysis Technique———————————————–

3.6Justification of Method Used——————————————

3.7 Presentation of Data——————————————————

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Poverty and unemployment represent the biggest challenges to government in Nigeria. Unemployment rate continue to rise alarmingly, poverty has economic, social and political ramifications. Basically, Poverty has been conceptualized in the following ways;

1. Lack of access to basic needs/goods.

2. Lack of or impaired access to productive resources

3. Lack of job opportunities e.t.c.

The level of poverty since the implementation of SAP in the 1980s has tremendously increased [UNDP Nigeria, 1998; FOS, 1999; World Bank,1999] .The poverty profile has shown that poverty increased from 28.1% in 1980 to 43.6% in 1985 but declined to 42.7% in 1992 and rose again to 65.6% in 1996.since 1990,the country has been classified as a poor nation. In recent years, there has been a semblance of continuity of liberal tradition in Nigeria; attitudes towards the system of welfare that supports the poor are rooted in our different cultural settings. The normative tradition approach to liberalism in the Nigerian society function to promote social cohesion, solidarity and citizenship. The duty to share among Nigerians in our diversity is intuitive. This duty rests on the consideration of human worth. In this context, we reason that others have human souls as we do and so we always choose to be indifferent to the needs of others (FEAP, 2001). Apparently, Nigerians always choose to care for others. This duty comes from a sympathetic concern that others be able to make life. In mitigation,however, it has, over time, introduced several macro-economic measures and initiations to address unemployment questions and also promoting entrepreneurship in the country. There was a structural adjustment programme (SAP) in 1986, which preached the liberalized economic approach, Directorate of food, roads and rural infrastructure (DFFRI), which was devoted to rural infrastructural projects and more recently, the national poverty eradication program (NAPEP) but of more relevance to the youth were such initiatives as the national Directorate of employment (NDE) programs, which targeted skills development and job creation among the youths. Thus the difference between NAPEP and poverty reduction agencies is that it is not a sector project implementation agency but aco-ordination facility that ensures that core poverty eradication.