Abstract:
The main theme of this study was to carry out a research on “organizational constraints on poverty alleviation programmes in Enugu State from 1999-2009”. In view of this, the study was carried out to address the following questions, namely: what are the bureaucratic obstacles involved in the organizations of poverty alleviation programmes? What poverty alleviation programmes are carried out with contrasting socio-economic and organizational opportunities and constraints? And what are the roles of beneficences (cooperative societies) on the credit facilities provided by government for poverty alleviation programmes? In order to carry out the investigation, both primary and secondary sources of data were used. Seven hundred (700) copies of questionnaire were used to elicit information from organizations for poverty alleviation programmes and cooperative societies (involved in the programmes). Also strategically placed personnel in the organizations were interviewed. Data for the study were analyzed by the use of descriptive analytical tools of tables showing percentages, (%) mean (x), and frequency (Fx) distributions. From the data collected, it was discovered that: Poverty alleviation programmes and their institutions and organization are not adequately funded as at when due; the staff of these organizations are not adequately trained and retrained in line with the nature of their duty and that poverty alleviation organizations are seen as one of the traditional bureaucratic organizations in Nigeria amongst other findings.Consequently, the following recommendations are made: The public organizations for poverty alleviation programes should be seen and treated as outside the traditional public bureaucracy which are saddled with a lot of bureau – pathologies and direct funding to the organizations should be encouraged rather than indirect and counterpart funding through the state and local government which do not expedite action on the release of such fund and these programmes also should be made more open for monitoring of its performance by the media and the general public at every stage.
