International Intervention for Sustainable Coexistence and Community Development: A Review of UNICEF-Wash Programme in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Abstract

If foreign aids and assistance was designed to sustain coexistence, control disease and malnutrition, arrest famine and epidemics, then its goal has not been adequately met with respect to African nations. At present, the demands for international interventions aimed at facilitating humanitarian assistance across Africa with a special reference to Nigeria are at increase, especially for the provision of good hygiene, control of infections, epidemics and malnutrition. For an evidence-based in this regard, this study examined the presence, activities and the progress of UNICEF-WASH assisted international programs in Ekiti State, Nigeria. In sequence of the research, questionnaires were administered and data were collected, collated, analyzed and discussed. The results were not satisfactory, the programs are not adequately on ground, and their activities are weak with limited evidence of progress made. The recommendation is that government should attract more foreign donors for humanitarian assistance and strictly supervise it directly like every other government business.