Journal of Management Research and Analysis 2024;11(1):59–62 Content available at: https://www.ipinnovative.com/open-access-journals Journal of Management Research and Analysis Journal homepage: https://www.jmra.in/ Case Report Project completion and exist strategy plans: A case study of world bank supported community and social development programme AF (CSDP-AF) in Nigeria M.S. Sadiq 1 , I.P. Singh 2 , N. Karunakaran 3 * 1 Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Federal University Dutse, Dutse, Nigeria 2 Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India 3 Dept. of Economics, People Institute of Management Studies (PIMS), Munnad, Kasaragod, Karela, India ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received 18-01-2024 Accepted 13-02-2024 Available online 04-03-2024 Keywords: Livelihood Project Planning Exist Sustainability Nigeria ABSTRACT Most programs’ ultimate goal is to achieve significant long-term benefits, or results that can be maintained and/or improved after the livelihood support organization has left. In theory, this means indefinite sustainability, but in practice, it can be helpful to project out enough years after exit (project completion) to be able to make some predictions about long-term change long enough to illustrate whether the project appears to be sustainable. Considering resource constraints and multiple livelihood assistance needs, many livelihood support organizations are increasingly realizing that they cannot fund and sustain any one initiative continuously. We should be able to quit responsibly once we’ve met our objectives, sure that our livelihood support results will not be jeopardized. To accomplish this, we must prepare for long-term sustainability as we design and implement programs. This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. For reprints contact: reprint@ipinnovative.com 1. Introduction Community Driven Development (CDD) is a mechanism to improve service delivery and local governance by empowering communities, local governments, service delivery, accountability, transparency, communication and capacity building at all levels. Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) is a scaled-up of Community- based Poverty Reduction Project (CPRP) and Local Empowerment and Environmental Management (LEEMP) pilot project. Therefore, CSDP is an intervention that has built on the CPRP and LEEMP structures. CSDP is supported by World Bank to promote community-driven development. CSDP-AF adopts Community Driven Development (CDD) approach with a Project Development Objective (PDO) to increase access to sustainable social and natural * Corresponding author. E-mail address: narankarun@gmail.com (N. Karunakaran). resource infrastructure services throughout Nigeria by poor people, and in particular internally displaced and vulnerable people in the northeast of Nigeria. It assists communities with micro projects in education, health, rural electrification, transport, water, socio-economic, natural resource and gender and vulnerable groups in implementing their felt needs. 1 1.1. Project completion Any project has two points viz. initial and exit points. Between these points are the phase involved and working towards sustainability of the project beyond its stipulated time period is very critical. 1.2. Creating project ownership Creating ownership of a project refers to a series of activities related to presenting and discussing with the aim https://doi.org/10.18231/j.jmra.2024.011 2394-2762/© 2024 Author(s), Published by Innovative Publication. 59