An Assessment Of Poverty Alleviation Programmes Of The Rural Community In Yola South Local Government Area Of Adamawa State

Abstract

This paper assesses the poverty alleviation programmes among rural community in Yola-South local government area of Adamawa state. Poverty alleviation have achieved limited overall success in reducing core income and multidimensional poverty due to weak implementation, poor targeting, and low community awareness. The paper intends to solve the problems of inadequate funding, poor targeting of beneficiaries, political interference, and a lack of infrastructural support in the rural communities. The paper adopts a descriptive survey research design. The population consists of 2,500 community participations with the sample size of 345 community participations compute by using Taro Yamane formula. This paper was carried out from the period 2024 to 2025. A simple random sampling technique was use. The findings reveal that government-sponsored poverty alleviation programmes have largely failed to significantly improve rural livelihoods or reduce poverty indices. The paper concludes that poverty alleviation programs have achieved limited success in structurally transforming rural living conditions. Poverty alleviation and rural development programs are connected to improvements in lowincome livelihoods and agricultural output, but overall poverty levels remain high due to flawed implementation. The paper recommend that adopting demand-driven community participation, transparent beneficiary selection processes, enhanced grassroots monitoring, and robust direct agricultural support to ensure sustainable poverty reduction.