Promoting sustainable development through grants in Delta State: an assessment of the role of United Nations International Children Education Fund (UNICEF)
Promoting sustainable development through grants in Delta State: an assessment of the role of United Nations International Children Education Fund (UNICEF)

Summary/Abstract: In recent time, the concept of sustainable development cannot be overemphasized. Since the early 1980s, the term ‘sustainable development has been used widely and indiscriminately. The term began to gain popularity, when it became increasingly fashionable to use it as a way of responding to global environmental concerns, biophysical issues, fairness,equity and distribution. This paper is to examine the role of grants on sustainable development in Delta State. The paper adopted the historical method of data analysis involving the review of secondary data. The findings revealed amongst other things that while grants as a supplement to other means of finance to ensuring sustainable development in Delta State,the reality on grounds is such that there is failure on the part of the government of Delta State to fashion out appropriate policy framework that would ensure that there is significant interactions between international grants such as that coming from UNICEF and social, economic and institutional processes in Delta State in such a way to continually sustained and meet up with increasing future demands in terms of population growth and continuous use of natural, human and material resources. It has been observed that changes in the integrated approach to social, economic and environmental issues have not really facilitated the developmental goals in Delta State.

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