Abstract: Community based development projects accelerate development initiatives at the grassroots level. Such projects address immediate needs of the community in such areas as education, health, environmental conservation and provision of safe water. Because of their close association with the communities, organizations implementing community based development projects should have a sustained involvement of the communities and key stakeholders not only during planning but also through the implementation and monitoring stages of these projects. The primary objective of this research was to investigate the influence of stakeholder management practices on quality of project monitoring for community based projects in Lamu. The study analyzed stakeholder influence, stakeholder strategies and stakeholder dynamics for explanation on quality of monitoring for community based development projects. The target population comprised of staff from organizations implementing community based projects in Lamu, officers representing government agencies relevant to community development as well as beneficiaries of the projects from which a sample of 95 respondents was drawn and questionnaires administered to them. Secondary data was collected from journals, books, conference proceedings, institutions’ databases, published and unpublished theses and anlysed using content analysis method. Findings from the study show strong correlation for stakeholder influence, stakeholder strategies, stakeholder cooperation and stakeholder dynamics with project monitoring. The findings revealed that that all the independent variables combined could influence up to 69.1% of change in the model of project monitoring quality of community development based projects in Lamu. Correlation at 0.05 level of significance further showed strong correlation with the dependent variable with stakeholder dynamics (r= - 0.508), stakeholder strategies (r = 0.488), stakeholder cooperation (r=0.207) and stakeholder influence (r = -.485). Regression analyses further revealed a significant linear relationship with β coefficients relating the independent variables with the dependent variables with stakeholder strategies (β1=612), stakeholder cooperation (β =0.275) showing a positive relationship while stakeholder influence (β =-0.795) and stakeholder dynamics (β=-0.357) showed a significant negative relationship with quality of project monitoring.
Keywords: stakeholder influence, stakeholder strategies, cooperation, stakeholder dynamics.
Title: STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY OF PROJECT MONITORING FOR COMMUNITY BASED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN KENYA
Author: Joshua Nzoka Makau, Dr. Muchelule Yusuf Wanjala
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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