Abstract: Community Service Order projects was crafted to equip offenders with requisite skills in order to empower them economically since most of the offenders were petty and would justify their crime due to lack of income or means to generate an income. The purpose of this study was investigate determinants of sustainability of Community Service Order projects in Kakamega County, Kenya. The study was guided by the following specific objectives; to determine the effect of stakeholder participation and project funding on sustainability of community service order projects in Kakamega County. The study relied on questionnaire method for purposes of data collection. The target population consisted of 240 individuals who included Community service order officers, chiefs, assistant chiefs and ground supervisors who have direct contact with community service order projects in Kakamega. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 148 respondents of which 117 returned the questionnaires. Analysis of data was done using descriptive and inferential statistics using with the aid of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The stakeholder participation had a strong and significant positive relationship with sustainability of Community Service Order projects. Project funding had a weak but significant positive relationship with sustainability of Community Service Order projects. The overall regression model showed that that stakeholder participation and project funding was 58.3%. The remaining variance could be explained by other variables, which were not examined in this study. There is a need for training of the human capacity with regard to basic skills in project management, encourage stakeholder participation, involve all stakeholders in project identification and provide not only adequate but also timely funding in order to realize sustainability of Community Service Order projects not only in Kakamega County but also in Kenya and beyond.
Keywords: Community service order project, Project funding, Stakeholder participation.
Title: Effect of Stakeholder Participation and Project Funding on sustainability of Community Service Order Projects in Kenya: A Case Study of Kakamega County
Author: Masingila Gregory, Dr. Mukanzi Clive, Karen Asinza
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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