Empowerment and Capacity Building: Issues and Options for South East, Nigeria

Abstract

One of the efforts of every good government is to strive in the upliftment of the standard of living of its citizenry. This paper examines empowerment and capacity building, evolving issues and options for South East, Nigeria. The thrust of this study is to raise the awareness and provide measures towards improving the level of self-reliance and determination in people to fully exploit their potentials and develop their local resources in order to deal with the problems affecting them. The twin issues of empowerment and capacity building are elaborately discussed from various dimensions in relation to how they affect, and are harnessed in, the South East, Nigeria.This study also observed that, in spite of the numerous challenges confronting South East governments like inadequate infrastructure, corruption, instability, etc., a landmark achievement has been recorded so far. It is recommended that an extra attention must be paid to human capacity development if South East Governments must beat the nightmares of poverty, joblessness and underdevelopment.