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Paper short abstract:

The study was to determine the extent the community and vulnerable groups’ empowerment contributed to the CSDP service delivery effect on improved access to social and natural resources infrastructure services in Anambra State, Nigeria. It was anchored on Service Quality Theory - Gap Analysis

Paper long abstract:

The study was to determine the extent the community and vulnerable groups’ empowerment contributed to Community and Social Development Project service delivery effect on improved access to social and natural resources infrastructure services in Anambra State, Nigeria. It was anchored mainly on Service Quality Theory - Gap Analysis. A mixed method of quantitative and qualitative survey methods were used to collect data. For quantitative data collection, structured questionnaire were administered on 396 out of 400 simple randomly sampled respondents while for qualitative data collection, 10 purposively sampled key technical facilitators of CSDP were reached with structured in-depth interview guide and 3 focused group discussions sessions with beneficiary communities and vulnerable groups was held. Independent variable was Community and vulnerable groups’ empowerment, the intervening variable was CSDP Service delivery and the dependent variable was Improved Access to Social and Natural Resources Infrastructure Services. Data was analyzed using frequency and percentages and ordinal logistic regression. The findings revealed that for H0: p < 0.001, that there was a positive and significant contributions of community and vulnerable groups’ empowerment to CSDP service delivery effect on improved access to social and natural resources infrastructure services in Anambra State, Nigeria. Key recommendation is that the contributions of Community and Vulnerable Groups’ empowerment, to improved access to social and natural infrastructure services should be consolidated and sustained.