The Impact of Strategic Planning and Effective Policy on Rural Industrialization of Anambra State of Nigeria

Abstract

This work sought to X-ray the impact of strategic planning and effective policy in rural industrialization. The need for rural industrialization is to improve economic activities in order to create wealth within rural communities. It means more employment and increasing standard of living of rural populace thereby narrowing the gap in economic and social life between the rural and urban dwellers which leads to reversal of rural urban migration. The objectives of the study were to determine the impact of strategic planning and effective policy on rural industrialization of  Anambra State and to ascertain ways of   harnessing rural resources to promote economic activities. The work concluded that strategic planning and effective policy create a detailed  plan; they also facilitates  rural industrialization; they make rural industries to be adaptable to technological changes; they guide implementation of rural industrialization programme; they maintain the nature of education and training that are required; they state the direction rural industrialization should go; and the work also recommended that strategic planning and effective policy should be inculcated in rural industrialization project.

Keywords: strategic planning, policy, rural, industrialization, Anambra State.