An evaluation of citizen participation in management of constituencies development fund projects: A survey of Baringo north constituency
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2012-03
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Chebii, James Kipkebut
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Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) was established by an Act of parliament in 2003 to
fund community projects in all constituencies in the country. Since its inception, thousands of
projects have been funded throughout the country. However, there are a large number of
stalled, incomplete, underutilized or unsustainable CDF funded projects spread across the
country.
Development literature promote decentralization and participatory approaches in poverty
alleviation efforts in order to achieve equity in project distribution as well as their ownership
which may result in successful implementation and sustainability of the projects. The purpose
of this study is to establish the level of citizen/community participation in the identification
and implementation of CDF funded projects in Baringo North Constituency and establish
whether participation has any influence on the cost, completion and sustainability the
projects.
Naturalistic inquiry approaches will be used to gather and analyze data. Data will be
triangulated through in-depth interviews, non-participant observation and document reviews.
Five respondents (local community members) per purposively selected project will be
interviewed at project site in order to gain insight on how the project was identified,
implemented and maintained. The researcher will employ descriptive techniques that are
more graphical in nature with a few quantitative techniques to analyze data. Analytical
induction will be used in order to deduce relationship between the parameters under
investigation. This approach will enable the researcher to summarize in a clear and
understandable way the data collected, analyze and subsequently interpret and infer
conclusions.
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Master of business administration, 55p march, 2012, HN 49 .C6C48
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