Social Audit and Performance of National Government Constituency Development Fund Projects in Mandera County, Kenya

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dc.contributor.advisorEdna Moien_US
dc.contributor.authorAdan, Adan Mohamud
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-31T06:02:41Z
dc.date.available2022-03-31T06:02:41Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionA Research Project Submited to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Master of Arts (Public Policy And Administration) of Kenyatta University, 2021en_US
dc.description.abstractThe projects funded using National Government Constituency Developed Fund in Kenya faces, time and cost overruns as well as quality issues. Since developing economies like Kenya face resource scarcity, it is important to ensure that the resources are efficiently used. One of the ways would be through ensuring social accountability in existing projects. This study therefore established the extent to which social audit has been conducted among government funded projects, and its effect on the performance taking a case of Mandera county. The specific objectives were to establish the effect of social accountability, participatory budgeting and community driven project monitoring on performance of National Government Constituency Developed Fund in Mandera County. The study was anchored on the Rights Based Perspective theory and Public Value Theory. A descriptive approach was taken by the study. A questionnaire was the main data collection tool and the target population were those responsible for National Government Constituency Developed Fund projects who were the committee members, National Government Constituency Developed Fund committee, wards representatives, heads of departments such as education, works, water, health, finance and audit in the sub county as well as the beneficiaries of the projects. In total, 88 people took part in the research. To achieve the objectives, the study made use of both qualitative and quantitative data from semi-questionnaires. The data analysis procedure was thematic, descriptive and inferential statistics. In this case, mean, standard deviation and regressions were used. In addition, t-statistics were used to determine the significance of the study variables. The study found out that social accountability had a positive and significant effect on performance of NGCDF projects in Mandera county; participatory budgeting had a positive and significant effect on performance of NGCDF projects in Mandera county and community-based monitoring of NGCDF projects was also positively and significantly associated with the performance of NGCDF projects in Mandera county. This implies that an improvement in any of the three indicators would lead to a significant improvement in delivery of NGCDF projects in Mandera county in terms of scope and budget. The study recommends the project steering committee and the NGCDF committee to promote social accountability in managing NGCDF projects in order to enhance efficiency and output. This can be done by availing of audit reports, termly development information, financial reports, development reports and information calling for public participation information to the public for ease of perusal and positive criticism. The study recommends the project steering committee and the NGCDF committee to promote participatory budgeting in NGCDF projects. This can be done by making arrangements to ensure that the stakeholders take part in coming up with projects of priority in their areas, availing information calling for participatory budgeting, participatory resource allocation for identified projects, participatory project identification and availability of public forums to exchange useful information regarding costs of projects. The study also recommends the project steering committee and the NGCDF committee to promote community-based monitoring of NGCDF projects. This can be done by development of a framework for community-based monitoring of NG-CDF projects, joint NG-CDF projects impact assessments, joint NG-CDF projects reviews, joint NG-CDF projects monitoring and the use of information from M & E.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipKenyatta Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/23433
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKenyatta Universityen_US
dc.subjectSocial Auditen_US
dc.subjectPerformanceen_US
dc.subjectNational Government Constituency Development Funden_US
dc.subjectProjectsen_US
dc.subjectMandera Countyen_US
dc.subjectKenyaen_US
dc.titleSocial Audit and Performance of National Government Constituency Development Fund Projects in Mandera County, Kenyaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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