Effect of Project Risks on Performance of Kenya Power’s Last Mile Connectivity Project in Murang’a County, Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorSandeep, Dhanjal
dc.contributor.authorNgugi, Lucy
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-23T09:52:03Z
dc.date.available2020-11-23T09:52:03Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionA research article published in IOSR Journal of Business and Managementen_US
dc.description.abstractBackground: Government projects in different countries often underperform in terms of cost, time and quality of their deliverables. In the case of Kenya Power’s Last Mile Connectivity project, the situation is not different. While the aim of the project was to increase accessibility to electricity among rural Kenyans by 2020, quite a high population in the rural areas still are still not connected to the national grid. The fundamental question therefore, which calls for research, is what project risks have been affecting the performance of the Last Mile Connectivity project in the different parts of the country? However, empirical studies that have been conducted on project management practises and project implementation lacks sufficient insights pertaining to the project risks involved in the LMC project and their effect on the project performance particularly in Murang’a County. Thus, there is inadequate empirical insight to inform any intervention to enhance the performance of the project. To address these empirical inadequacies, this research assessed project risks and performance of Last Mile Connectivity project in Murang’a County. Methodology: The study used descriptive research design. Positivism research philosophy was applied. The target population for the study involved all the 62 key personnel responsible for implementation of Last Mile Connectivity Project in Kiharu Constituency, Murang’a County from whom data was collected using semistructured questionnaire. The data was analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics analysis. Results: Majority of the respondents agreed that political risks, environmental risks, socio-cultural risks and inflationary risks existed in the implementation of the LMC project in Kiharu constituency. Political risks and socio-cultural risks were found to have a significant negative effect on project performance while environmental risks and inflationary risks had insignificant effect on the project performance.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDhanjal Sandeep, et. al. “Effect of Project Risks on Performance of Kenya Power’s Last Mile Connectivity Project in Murang’a County, Kenya.”IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM), 22(10), 2020, pp. 46-52en_US
dc.identifier.issne-ISSN: 2278-487X, p-ISSN: 2319-7668
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.ijpsi.org/iosr-jbm/papers/Vol22-issue10/Series-8/E2210084652.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/20972
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIOSR Journal of Business and Managementen_US
dc.subjectProject Performanceen_US
dc.subjectSocio-Cultural Risksen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental Risksen_US
dc.subjectInflationary Risksen_US
dc.subjectPolitical Risksen_US
dc.titleEffect of Project Risks on Performance of Kenya Power’s Last Mile Connectivity Project in Murang’a County, Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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