Impact of Vocational Skills Programme on Livelihood of Internally Displace Persons Camp in Bama, Borno State, Nigeria: Implications for Human Resource Development Planning

Abstract

This study was conducted to assess the Impact of vocational skills programme on livelihoods of IDPs in Bama Camp, Borno state, Nigeria. Descriptive Survey reseach design was used for this study. The population for this study consist of 43,743 registered IDPs in Senior Science Secondary School Camp in Bama, Borno State. A sample of 337 was selected using simple Random sampling technique. A self-developed questionnaire was used for collecting data in this study. The reliability coefficient of 0.78 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha method. Two research, questions and two null hypotheses were formulated. Descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentage score was used to analyse the research questions and inferential statistics of t-test and One-way analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypotheses 1 and 2 at 0,05 level of significance. Result of the findings reveal that, there is impact of vocational skills programme on the livelihoods of the IDPs in Bama Camp, also the IDPs in Bama Camp utilize the vocational skills programme for livelihoods. The study further revealed that, there is statistically significant gender difference in the perception of the respondents among the different age groups examine and there are statistically significant differences in the level of vocational skills programme utilization for livelihood of IDPs in Bama Camp, Borno state. Based on this findings, it is recommended that, among others the, government and relevant NGOs should continue to offer training on livelihoods through vocational skills and educate the IDPs and others in the communities on the impact of vocational skills programme in reducing the high rate of poverty and to become self-reliance. In addition, implication for human resource development policy and practice was discussed.