Abstract
The diminishing resource-capacities of governments for intervention-cum-development
purposes vis-à-vis the threats of exacerbating degeneration of existing slums, driven by
uncontrollable influx of immigrants, motivated this research. It analyses the factors of
willingness to contribute diversely to improve urban service provision in selected slum
communities of Lagos Megacity. Cluster sampling technique was used to identify groups
of households in three communities namely Orile-Agege, Bariga and Itire-Ijesha with
homogeneous socioeconomic conditions. Altogether, 1,118 households were sampled for
the social survey. Descriptive statistics were employed to characterize household-heads’
personal attributes and social assets while it employed the logit regression to model the
factors influencing willingness to make supplementary contributions. Nine factors, namely
age, gender, employment, tenure, monthly income, and four others, were hypothesized as
showing no significant influence on each of the three-fold dimensions of willingness to
contribute to improving urban services. The findings show that while three factors – age,
occupation and monthly income show statistical significance in the model on financial
contribution; the two other models, namely willingness to volunteer personal labour and
the willingness to volunteer professional experience, exhibited more inclusive number of
significant variables. Conclusively, the critical relevance of monthly-income in the
willingness model underscores the importance of strategizing to enhance slum-dwellers’
income-earning capacity to improve on the quantum of the internally-sourced intervention
resources. Notwithstanding, further researches employing more variables and larger
populations will provide more clues on the interactions among the hypothesized variables
in order to guarantee a better policy-application of the obtained results.

DOI: https://ejesm.org/archives/429