THE ROLE OF 0F GOEMAlUNITY AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION MWAGHAVUL UNITY AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN PLATEAU STATE OF NIGERIA

The research, "The Role of GUDO and MDA in rural development in Plateau state of Nigeria", attempts a cursory assessment of the roles of these organisations in rural development, with specific reference to GUDO and MDA in Plateau state of Nigeria. The emphasis is on exploring the positive traditions of the people towards utilizing them for developmental purpose. It recognises the negative roles played by Western values on the major positive culture of the rural societies. Thus incapacitating genuine rural development from below. This research project therefore gives an insight into the roles of these positive cultures and traditional organisations in rural development considering the dysmal performance of government structures and institutions in that respect of recent. It has therefore been discovered that most state programmes demoralise and alienate the beneficiaries of the programmes thereby having no relevance to the increasing impoverishment of the people. It investigates the practical relevance of ~in_rural development by examining two case studies (GUDO and MDA). In accomplishing this, questionnaires were administered on a randomly and clustered samples of the two communities, their responses from 540 administered questionnaires were subsequently analysed based on the research proposition and problematic to determine the extent to which the organisations have done well in rural developments or not.