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Abstract
The study examined stakeholders’ participation in the funding and curriculum development in the attainment of sustainable development goals of Universal Basic Education in Rivers State. Two objectives, research questions and hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive design. The study population comprised 29,937 junior secondary schools (UBE) stakeholders in Rivers State of which 3,011 stakeholders were eventually sampled for the work. A stratified sampling method was adopted. A 10-item questionnaire titled “Stakeholders Participation the funding and curriculum development in the attainment of sustainable development goals questionnaire.” (SPFCDASGQ) was used to extract data. The research instrument was properly validated by researchers’ supervisors and two experts in measurement and evaluation from Department of Psychology, Guidance and Counseling, Faculty of Education, Uniport. Cronbach Alpha statistic was utilized to determine reliability of questionnaire while Mean, standard deviation and the z-test were used to answer relevant questions and hypotheses respectively at 0.05 significance level. The research findings showed that stakeholders participated to a low extent in the area of funding and curriculum development. The study concluded that stakeholders’ participation in attaining sustainable development goals of UBE in Rivers State is low. It eventually was recommended that stakeholders must be more committed to funding of UBE scheme for attaining sustainable development goals.