Integrating corporate social responsibility as an infrastructural projects financing option in Lagos State, Nigeria

Abstract

This article examines the infrastructural projects that were delivered through corporate social responsibility (CSR) by private  organisations in Lagos State, Nigeria, with a view to providing information on the projects’ distribution that could help the development of a CSR policy guide for private organisations’ participation in infrastructure development. A mixed method approach with structured  questionnaire and semi-structured interviews was adopted to obtain data. The questionnaire was administered to 27 representatives of  private organisations identified through the Respondents-Driven Sampling (RDS) technique. Nine of these representatives were selected  using convenience/accidental sampling technique for the interviews. The data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. The results show that private organisations’ participation in the delivery of infrastructural projects as CSR improved in  the study area from 2010. It was noted that 85.7% of the total identified deliverable projects delivered by the private organisations were  executed between 2010 and 2019. These projects include, among others, blocks of classroom; provision of pipe-borne water;