Abstract: Livestock keeping is a major source of wealth and accounts for more than two-thirds of average family income in arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya. Due to the climate change, North Eastern Kenya has been experiencing severe drought and several projects had been initiated to help communities to manage risk such as provision of micro-insurance for low income people but the efforts has not been productive. Thus, the objective of this study was to investigate the moderating effect of index based livestock insurance on political situations affecting performance of livestock projects in North Eastern Kenya. The study used cross sectional design and targeted population from households in Garissa and Wajir. Structured questionnaire was administered to the sampled population which was randomly selected using multi-stage random sampling technique. Quantitative data collected was analyzed by statistical models such as Analysis of variance (ANOVA), Multivariate regression analysis was applied to measure moderating effect of index based livestock insurance on socio-cultural factors. The study found out that there was positive linear relationship between political situations and performance of livestock projects in North Eastern Kenya using Pearson correlation coefficient. However, introduction of moderating variable into independent variable political situations there was insignificant relationship with performance of livestock projects in North Eastern Kenya North Eastern Kenya. The study recommends to the project managers to work as team with the area leaders and community to beef up security and reduce conflict. Security and conflict management would improve the performance of livestock projects in North Eastern.
Keywords: index based livestock insurance, performance of livestock projects, political situations.
Title: Moderating Effect of Index Based Livestock Insurance on Political Situations Affecting Performance of Livestock Projects in North Eastern Kenya
Author: Mohamed Keinan Hassan, Jane Gathenya, Mike Iravo
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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