Community based organizations’ activities and poverty reduction in Sembabule District: Uganda
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2013-06
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Kampala International University.College of Humanities and social science
Abstract
The general objective of this study was to determine the correlation between the level of
community based organizations' activities and poverty reduction in selected parishes among the
local community in Sembabule District basing on the following specific objectives; to identify the
profile of the respondents in terms of gender, age, marital status, educational levels and number
of years in Sembabule District, to examine the nature of community based organizations'
activities in selected parishes of Sembabule District, to access poverty reduction among the
local community in selected parishes of Sembabule District, and to determine the relationship
between the level of community based organizations' activities and poverty reduction in selected
parishes of Sembabule District.
The study was, quantitative and took a descriptive correlational research design. It was
quantitative because the variables are measured in numerical form. Purposive sampling was
used to select respondents. A sample size of 135 was selected comprising of 55 males and 80
females. Questionnaires were used to collect information from respondents. The frequency and
percentages were used to determine the profile of the respondents. The means and ranks were
applied for the levels of community based organizations' activities and poverty reduction.
Findings revealed that the level of poverty reduction to some respondents had no skills in
entrepreneurship & small business management, as well as low access to medical care, and
basic every day food hence being poor. On the other hand the level of community based
organisation had low participation on cleaning school compounds, laying bricks, digging roads
as an activity in the community, and recreation centres that is slashing play grounds. From the
findings and the conclusions of the study, the researcher recommends that there should be
some needs to uplift the competencies of members of CBOs of selected parishes in Sembabule
district since most of them were found to be certificate holders.
There is a need to sensitize the members of the community to participate in Community Based
Organization activities in selected parishes of Sembabule district, since it was found to be
generally low.
Members of the CBOs should be trained with skills in entrepreneurship & small business
management hence reducing poverty.
There is a need to sensitize people on how to fight poverty in selected parishes of Sembabule
District, and also to train them on how to improve their standards of living.
There is a need to encourage males also to participate in community based organization
activities not letting only women to participate.
The management of the CBOs to improve on their bureaucratic system because a good
bureaucracy system will raise the standard of members which will make them do their work
effectively.
Despite of all these challenges, members should also involve in vocational activities like brick
laying, slashing, and cleaning toilets so that they can improve on their living standards
Description
Thesis presented to the College of Higher Degrees and Research Kampala International University Kampala, Uganda in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree Masters of Arts in Development Studies
Keywords
Community, Organizations, Activities, Poverty, Reduction, Sembabule District