Project Success Factors and Performance of Constituency Development Funded Projects in Nakuru Town West Constituency, Kenya
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Date
2023
Authors
Hemed, Suya Omar
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Kenyatta university
Abstract
Projects are launched with the goal of fixing particular difficulties, fulfilling community
needs, or capitalizing on possibilities. Kenya's national government's constituency
development fund is one such example. The CDF tries to devolve national resources to
the community level in order to foster economic development, which would contribute to
overall national economic growth and poverty elimination. However, according to a
number of auditor general reports, numerous CDF committee-funded projects have
stalled throughout the country as a consequence of failing to implement critical success
aspects. The purpose of the study was to establish the influence of critical success factors
on performance of CDF projects in Nakuru Town West Constituency, Kenya.
Specifically, the study evaluated the influence of project planning, stakeholder
involvement, project team training, project funding, and monitoring and evaluation on
performance of CDF projects. The study was anchored on Stakeholder Theory, Resource-
Based View Theory, Systems Theory and Complexity Theory. A descriptive crosssectional
survey design was employed. The 21 active CDF initiatives in the constituency
were the study's target population. The research conducted a census study because the
target population was tiny. Project managers for each project were the focus of the study.
Targeting 5 project participants and community leaders for each project involved basic
random selection as well. Consequently, there were 126 elements in all, including 42
community representatives, 63 project participants, and 21 project managers. A selfadministered
questionnaire with both closed-ended and open-ended questions was used in
the study. In two ongoing CDF projects in Kenya's Nakuru Town East Constituency, a
questionnaire was administered. Data from the questionnaire was examined using both
descriptive and inferential statistics using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The
survey findings were given in tables. The study established that project planning (r=.117),
stakeholder involvement (r=.089), project team training (r=.523), project funding
(r=.180), and monitoring and evaluation (r=.545) positively correlated with performance
of CDF projects. The R2 value of 0.440 implies that 44% of the variations in performance
of CDF projects can be explained by the independent variables. The study concluded that
project planning, stakeholder involvement, project team training, project funding, and
monitoring and evaluation influenced performance of CDF projects. The study
recommends the need for enhanced project planning, mechanism for more youth and
women involvement, timely funding, widening of training scope and independent
monitoring and evaluation of CDF projects. The study may provide a basis for review
and institutionalization of policies that promote effective utilization of the critical success
factors and thus enhance performance of CDF projects. Finally, the findings may
contribute empirical data that may aid in the development of theory and practice on
effective performance of CDF projects in Kenya. The study suggest that more studies
may be conducted to examine other parameters impacting CDF project effectiveness to
improve generality of the results. Similarly, additional academics can do a comparative
examination of these determinants across counties and throughout the country to improve
the generalizability of the results.
Description
A Research Project Submitted to the School of Business,
Economics and Tourism in Partial Fulfillment for the
Award of Degree in Master of Business Administration
(Project Management Option) of Kenyatta University
Keywords
Constituency Development Funded Projects, Nakuru Town West Constituency, Kenya