Abstract: Public organizations serve social interest, to provide public services with an aim to meet the interests and needs of citizens and business entities. Every organization wants to survive and grow in a constantly changing and competitive environment. To do so, it must respond and adjust to the social, economic and political environmental changes that occur. In most public organizations, especially in the Kicukiro District, strategic plans are not carried out and implemented properly. Some public organizations do not attach any importance to strategic planning and therefore do not have strategic plans practices for their organizations. This could be borne out of lack of appreciation and knowledge of the relevance of strategic planning to organizational performance. The purpose of this research was to examine the role of strategic planning practices in the performance of public organizations in Rwanda. This study was used a descriptive research design, where qualitative and quantitative approach was used in order to describe the role of strategic planning practices in the performance of Kicukiro District. The target population for this study is 102 employees of Kicukiro District and sample size is 81 employees. The Simple random sampling was applied within each stratum. Researcher questionnaires technique as data collection instrument and has used Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) for data analysis. The performance has an overall correlation with strategic practices of 0.743 which is strong and positive. Analysis of Variance shows that f-calculated is greater that f – critical that is 6.301>0.01. This implies that the regression equation was well specified and therefore the co-efficient of the regression shows that there is a strong relationship between strategic planning practices and district performance. Pearson correlation coefficient, (r=0.754) shows that there is a positive and high correlation relationship between strategic planning practices and district performance where the P-value (0.000<0.05). The conducted study confirmed that application of strategic planning in public organizations in helps staffs of district to manage public organizations in a more responsible manner. Based on the results of the empirical study, researcher concluded that the research objectives are well achieved and three sub variables define the performance measurement. All public sector organizations must adopt the culture of strategically planning their operations and the Government and for that matter the governing authority should be part of the exercise and ensure timely approval and release of resources for the formulation and implementation of strategic plans.
Title: THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING PRACTICES ON PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS IN RWANDA (A CASE STUDY KICUKIRO DISTRICT)
Author: MWIZERWA VINCENT, DR. PATRICK MULYUNGI, GERARD RURANGWA
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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