SDI: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES FOR FEDERAL STATE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (Case of Nigeria)

摘要

Implementation of SDIs in inherently complex, tension arises from various sources including the need for consensus on standards for example between federal and local agencies(Georgiadou et al., 2007). Despite the numerous benefits of SDI, there are still several failure of the project(Georgiadou and Harvey, 2007) and most of these failures are in developing countries. Factors affecting such failures include lack of technology to handle enormous data, financial constrains and many other socio-economic constraints. More so, there are other underlying factors that have effect on implementation of SDI. One of such factors is the system and structure of governance in the country. A decentralized system brings service closer to the community and also devolves control to the local level. This has a vital implication on SDI implementation and service delivery within the system. It is obvious that system of governance can either facilitate of mitigate against a successful implementation of SDI mostly in developing countries. Nigeria as a developing country is faced with great challenges in implementing NSDI in its present unitary system of government. A look into the prospect and challenges of SDI in the context of decentralization system of governance in Nigeria can aids proper implementation plans of SDIs at all levels of governance, thereby boosting its chance of success. The findings however can be generalized to many developing countries presently operating under decentralization policy.