Improving Quality of Life through Community-based Participatory Development in Nigeria: Explanatory Factors for Success and Failure

Experiences in the application of the community-based model as a strategy for improving the quality of life of poor communities have reported improvement in terms of project performance. However, it has been observed that most studies placed emphasis on the overall performance determined at the aggregate level. For this reason, the findings, do not allow for an adequate expression of the variation in the success or failure stories of the projects and the explanatory factors for them. This article investigates the explanatory factors that account for variation in success and failure of a Community-based development initiative in Kebbi-state, Nigeria, using a case study approach.