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    Contribution of Income Generating Activities to Secondary Schools' Budgets in Kirinyaga County, Kenya
    (Kenyatta University, 2016-10) Mugo, Caroline Wambui
    public expenditure it s 16 :,i“;\l:T\L;::L:;ill:‘i;l?s;lfrm%‘:\lf':];t: ;]1i_lllcr 9[" great concern given ‘lhat it w'/cighs very been motivated by the '~ ) eed or [x]sllluhQns to g‘ener'ate lhel'l’ own 1n§ome‘ has » °d by the 8-4-4 system of education which is heavily vocationalized. Government system still leave fees-guidelines financial which gup | ll) principals pals h have to adhere dh to and ?he cost sharingari Kl'w soverment Kas gdvised gthp in :18 school. To find a way 'oul Of!.hls fisFaI _dIS[.WSS, reso(lrces S 65 Tl g IefSC_\ppls managers to mobilize avanllable msmuuopal e et caey lennitn > physical facilities and equipment to generate income to provide ¢ & resources to enable the schools to run efficiently. The purpose of lhIS study was to establish the contribution of IGAs to secondary school budgets in !\lrln)'aga East Sub-County. The main objective of the study is to assess how much income schools generate from Income Generating Activities and to determine how m}lch they supplement the government subsidies. The study was significant in that it will Iez_id to the improvement of strategies of financing education by identifying alternative sources of financing basic education in Kenya to cater for the financial gaps that need additional funding in schools. The study was based on the Theory of the firm also known as the model of profit maximization by Wilkinson, 1994. It employed a descriptive survey design. The target population consisted 26 heads of schools and the BOM chairpersons making a total of 52 respondents. Simple Random Technique was applied and in this case, the researcher sampled all the 26 schools in Kirinyaga East Sub-County. Data collection was done using questionnaires, interview schedules and observation checklists which were organized according to pertinent aspects of the study, analyzed and reported using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, charts, graphs and percentages. The study findings were that some schools engaged in IGAs including agricultural based IGAs that included dairy farming and crop production; service based 1GAs including hire of classrooms and halls and commercial based IGAs for instance the canteen. The main challenges of 1GAs included lack of sufficient funding, land limitation and poor record keeping. The study concluded that the contribution of IGAs can be a useful source of additional income as seen in the study whereby schools were able to purchase teaching and learning materials including computers and equipping