Relationship between Usaid Funding and Level of Education Access in Nairobi Kenya
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Date
2022
Authors
Sylvia, M’masi
Moi, Edna
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Full Length Research
Abstract
Education access is quite important to each
and every individual in a country. In
Kenya the illiteracy levels are slowly
declining due to more and more citizens
gaining access to education. In the past
education access had only been a preserve
of the wealthy, in the society. Currently
also the poor and less privileged in the
society have access to education. The
research was necessitated by the fact that
despite the government and other stake
holders combining efforts to ensure more
and more Kenyans had access to education
especially in Nairobi which is the capital
of Kenya, the level of education access
was increasing at a very slow rate. From
data obtained from NGO’s such as USAID
the slow increase in the level of education
access in Nairobi was blamed on
inadequate funding. When funding was
increased, the level of education access
was on the increase but once the funding
was reduced education access was on the
decline. With USAID reducing its funding
in the Kenyan education sector over the
past few years, many parents found it
difficult to educate their children
especially in the Nairobi slum dwellings
where earnings are low. The research was
guided by the operating income approach
and the human capital theory. These two
theories were used since they relate closely
to the levels of capital and resource
utilization and the expected results. Since
most of the data was readily available from
USAID itself, the government and most of
the learning institutions which received
funding from USAID, a casual research
approach suited the study. Despite the
casual approach, primary data was
collected from USAID staff and some of
the stakeholders, where a total of 120
respondents were interviewed. They were
distributed amongst USAID staff and
policy implementation stakeholders where
the partners accounted for the bulk of
respondents. A pre-structured
questionnaire was mailed to the
respondents which allowed them to fill it
at their own free time. Simple regression
analysis and correlation analysis were used
to analyze most of the data collected. The
main finding of the study was that
whenever USAID faces tough economic
times, they are forced to cut funding into
most of their projects such as educational
projects being undertaken in Nairobi. To
deal with such occurrences there was need
for USAID to have clearly set goals and
time periods within which the goals must
be achieved whether funding is reduced or not
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Keywords
Operating income, human capital, policy implementation, resource utilization
Citation
M’masi, S., & Moi, E. (2022). Relationship between USAID funding and level of education access in Nairobi Kenya. International Academic Journal of Arts and Humanities, 1(2), 472-481.