Enhancing Women’s Participation in Community Development Through Community Education for Sustainable Development in South-East Nigeria

The study focused on enhancing women’s participation in community development through community education for sustainable development. Three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey design was used for the study. The population for the study was 828 respondents from south-East states of Nigeria. Researchers’ made questionnaire was the major instrument for the study. The research questions were analyzed using mean scores and standard deviation while the null hypotheses were tested using t-test statistics. Based on the analyses, the following major findings was established: (i) encouraging more rural dwellers to participate in agricultural production to enhance their income, providing employment opportunities by creating jobs for rural dwellers among others were how community education enhances socio-economic potentials of women, (ii) enhancing literacy education for rural women, improving capacity building among women among others were the community education that enhanced literacy capacity of women, (iii) inadequate provision of funds by the government for the enhancement of community education and inadequate support from donor agencies for community education among others were the constraints militating against community education in enhancing women’s participation in community development. Based on the findings of the study, recommendations were made. © 2023 WITPress. All rights reserved.