Investigating Nigerian non-governmental organizations’ capabilities to replicate successful youth poverty alleviation innovation programmes.
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2018
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The original contribution of this study to knowledge is the re-contextualisation of the
SCALERS model to investigate the organisational capabilities of Nigerian nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) to replicate successful programmes designed to
empower poor youths as NGOs are among the key stakeholders in the fight against
youth poverty in Nigeria. Youth poverty is on the rise in Nigeria despite the successful
poverty alleviation programmes of NGOs being utilised in some locations within
Nigeria. This has necessitated the current investigative study to unravel the near lack of
replication by these NGOs in other needy locations in Nigeria to reduce the growing
scourge of youth poverty in the country. The research questions comprise two main
categories focusing questions on the effectiveness of the organisational capabilities of
these NGOs and determining the progress made in replicating successful programmes
designed to empower poor youths in Nigeria and investigating the correlation between
these.
The study addressed a gap in extant literature and focused on youth poverty alleviation
activities of NGOs and their organisational capabilities in Nigeria by investigating these
organisational capabilities issues in relation to replicating successful programmes
designed to empower poor youths to address the growing problem of youth poverty in
Nigeria using the SCALERS model as theoretical foundation for the study.
The study utilised a quantitative-based non-experimental exploratory correlational study
design to investigate the organisational capabilities of youth-serving NGOs to replicate
successful programmes designed to empower poor youths. A simple random sampling
technique was adopted to gain access to the NGOs, and a self-administered
questionnaire was utilised to gather the research data from managers of the NGOs.
Descriptive and inferential statistics were carried out and their findings were significant.
The major findings of the study were that the investigated NGOs had been able to meet
their staffing, communication, alliance-building, replication and stimulating market
forces needs effectively and that there was a significant correlation between the
organisational capabilities of the investigated NGOs and replicating successful
programmes designed to empower poor youths. It is expected that the research findings
will enable youth-serving NGOs and their stakeholders to tackle youth poverty
effectively
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Doctor of Philosophy in Management. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2018.