Abstract

The study determined the impact of Green River Project on socio-economic development of rural lives in Rivers State, Nigeria. Copies of the questionnaire were used in eliciting data from 90 randomly selected beneficiaries. The impact measuring model and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test were used for data analyses. Results indicated that of the 25 development indicators studied, the Project made a higher impact on 18 indicators on beneficiaries, while low impact was recorded on 7 indicators. Impact of socio-economic indicators achieved within the Project did not differ significantly with those achieved before participating in the Project. Sustained effort of the Project is recommended to improve on the magnitude of the values of higher impact achieved by the Project.

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