Local governments around the world use a variety of strategies and approaches to promote good governance at the grassroots level. The government at the grassroots is known as local government. Local government exists as a result of the democratic process and the full involvement of people at the grassroots level in decision making. Its establishment serves two purposes. First, it serves as an administrative body for providing goods and services to the citizens of the locality; Second, as a democratic framework for full community representation in decision-making at the local government level. Local government is critical to the social growth of rural communities, whether rural or urban. The government is nearest to the rural areas because it provides administration and service delivery to people at the local levels. It also helps in the administrative and democratic growth of the grassroots. According to Sikander (2015), societal, political, and economic change is significant and genuine when it begins at the grassroots, or the lowest level of society. According to Mbieli (2018), no country can be considered industrialized if its villages lag behind and its cities are ultra-modern. Local governments are responsible for balancing the equations between cities and villages by planning programs in order to achieve public policies.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The main issue that most local governments face is a shortage of sufficient financial and human capital to execute multiple growth programs. It should be noted that since the early 1990s, there has been a significant decline in the overall amount of funds allocated to local governments in Nigeria, as well as a shortage of sufficient manpower. Local government allocations are being hijacked by state governors, used for electioneering campaigns, and exchanged among political Godfathers and representatives of state legislatures, which is one of the causes of a lack of sufficient finance and human resources. In modern times, local governments are responsible for providing basic goods and services to their residents in a simpler, cheaper, and more effective way. Local government is the level of government in Nigeria that creates the impetus for long-term national growth. Local government-initiated rural development is expected to include various projects such as the construction and maintenance of kilometers of rural roads; borehole and deep wells sunk or rehabilitated and operated by the local government; rural electrification; and rural population empowerment programs. This may be reflected in terms of the increased standard of life enjoyed by citizens as a result of the primary health care service given, the purchase and delivery of fertilizer to farmers at a subsidized cost, the effective and productive administration of primary education, and the regularity and quality of public enlightenment programs provided and enjoyed by the rural population. The effectiveness and efficiency with which these services are provided qualifies local government as a viable instrument of rural development. These issues must be solved in order to alleviate the seriousness of the problem for Nigerians living in rural areas. However, beyond these factors, the dismal failure of previous regimes in Nigeria to address the issue of hunger and poor rural living conditions can be traced back to the government's reluctance to explore the democratic approach to governance in local government. Much focus and consideration has not been paid to the fact that, in addition to government efforts, the rural population will meaningfully contribute to the growth of their welfare (Alila, 1998). Furthermore, the majority of rural programs are funded by outside sources (i.e. legislative allocations), with a focus on construction investments that are not targeted at the general public. All of these corruptive practices have contributed significantly to the issue of insufficient finance and manpower, which has made successful service delivery in rural areas difficult. As a result, this study seeks to resolve the issue of insufficient financial and human capital, which has posed a significant challenge to grassroots growth.
AIMS OF THE STUDY
In line with the statement of research problems the aim of the study is human and financial resource administration in Local government
1) To examine the role of local government administration in rural development
2) To evaluate relationship between human resources and local government administration in Nigeria
3) To determine the relationship between financial resources and local government administration
4) To evaluate the benefits of human and financial resources of local government administration
5) To recommend ways of improving local government administration through an effective human and financial resources administration
EDITORS SOURCE : Human Resource Management Project Topics
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