ABSTRACT

The study sought to create awareness of the needs and properties of leadership packages for Community Based Organizations in South East, Nigeria.  Specially, the study sought to determine the following: specific objective of the training package, contents of the training package, delivery system to be used in delivering the contents of training package, instructional materials to be used in delivering the contents and evaluation activities to be adopted for assessing the achievement. Six research questions and six hypotheses tested at 0.05level of significance guided the study.  The study adopted survey research design.  It was carried out in CBOs in South East, Nigeria.  The population of the study was made up of 2,934 Executives in the registered CBOs in five states, which include: Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo.  The sample size for the study was made up of 319 executives in the sampled states used for the study. Instrument used to collect data for the study was Community Based Organization Leadership Training Questionnaire (CBOLTQ).  The CBOLTQ was face validated by three experts from Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Abia State, two from Department of Adult and Continuing Education and one from Measurement and Evaluation of Science Education Department.  The draft training package was face validated by three experts while the internal consistency of the instrument was established using the Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient which yielded a coefficient of 0.81. Mean, standard deviation and Analyses of covariance ANOVA were used to analyze the data collected.  The findings included 9 objectives of training package, 44 contents of LTP for CBO executives, 9 methods of delivering the contents of LTP, 6 instructional materials used in delivering the contents and 5 methods of evaluation activities to be used to evaluate the contents after undergoing the LTP.  There were no significant differences among the mean scores of the executives in the three states on the following: 9 objectives of LTP, 24 out of 34 contents, 8 out of 9 methods, 6 instructional materials and 5 methods of evaluation activities after undergoing the LTP in South East, Nigeria.  Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that; Community development officers should ensure that elected leaders are trained on the above mentioned skills/package developed by the researcher, policy makers should ensure that policies on training CBO leaders are made available and CBO leaders should uphold the opportunities of training to update their skills