Abstract: The major problems faced by the projects in Rwanda especially on sustainability of agriculture projects, are the involvement of communities and other stakeholders are present as they have little competence and capacities as well as illiterate in running the project, lack of skill in Monitoring and evaluation the agriculture projects. The general objective of this study is to examine the influence of stakeholders' participation on sustainability of agriculture projects in Rwanda. This research was adopted descriptive research design where descriptive statistics was applied to analyze data from questionnaires. The target population is 320 composed by stakeholders' and staffs of crop intensification project program. For the purpose of this study, a sample size of 175 respondents was determined from stakeholders’ and project staffs by using the formula of Sliven’s. In this study, data was collected through self administered questionnaires. Table8 presents the coefficients of model fitness on how stakeholder participation explains sustainability of agriculture projects. Stakeholder participation has an overall correlation with sustainability of agriculture projects of 0.773 which is strong and positive correlation. This means that approximately 77.3% of Stakeholder participation is explained by the sustainability of agriculture projects at 5% level of significance. These indicate the good fit of the regression equation used. The overall significance of the regression estimation model. It indicates that the model is significant in explaining the relationship between stakeholders' participation and sustainability of agriculture projects in Rwanda at 5% level of significance. Analysis of Variance shows that f-calculated is greater that f – critical that is 6.301>0.01. From the research findings the study concluded that participation in project planning, participation in project control and participation in project implementation had a positive and significant effect on the sustainability of agriculture projects. The study also concludes that stakeholder participation ought to the agriculture activities at the earliest stage of the crop intensification project program. Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations have been suggested. The researcher recommends that CIPP management board should strengthen stakeholder participation by removing the primary bottlenecks identified by the study- information asymmetry/lack of transparency, lack of clarity on stakeholder input and weak legal framework to support stakeholder participation.
Keywords: Stakeholder participation, agriculture activities, agriculture projects.
Title: INFLUENCE OF STAKEHOLDERS' PARTICIPATION ON SUSTAINABILITY OF AGRICULTURE PROJECTS IN RWANDA: A CASE STUDY THE CROP INTENSIFICATION PROJECT PROGRAM
Author: Immaculate UWAYEZU, Dr. Patrick MULYUNGI, Gerard RURANGWA
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
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