Somba, Sophia Kalekye2025-07-262025-07-262025-04https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/30884A research project submitted to the school of law, arts and social sciences in partial fullfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Public Policy And Administration Of Kenyatta University. April 2025 SUPERVISOR Dr. Jane NjorogeTo deliver on their mandate of developing competent and skilled human capital, public TVETIs are required to implement practices that ensure that resources are efficiently and effectively utilised and in so doing enable them to contribute to Kenya’s national growth and development agenda. Towards this end, this study sought to investigate the effect of budget practices on the performance of public TVETIs in Kiambu County, Kenya. The study’s specific objectives was to ascertain the effect of budget planning, budget compliance and budget reviews on the performance of TVETIs in Kiambu County, Kenya. The theories guiding the investigation were the economic theory of budgeting, the new management public management theory, and the stakeholder theory. A descriptive design was applied to meet the study objectives, which entailed the collection of primary data using questionnaires from a population of 41 public TVETIs in Kiambu County, Kenya. Reliability and validity of the data collection instrument were done through the Cronbach Alpha tests and content validity assessments. The data was analyzed through descriptive, content and regression analysis and the results were presented in tables, figures and narratives. The study’s descriptive findings indicated that budget planning; budget compliance and budget reviews were moderately implemented in public TVETIs in Kiambu County. Further, the regression analysis ascertained that budgeting practices were positively and strongly correlated with performance (R=0.703). Specifically, budgeting practices accounted for 49.4% of variations in performance among public TVETIs in Kiambu County. Further, the findings revealed that budgeting practices were significant predictors of performance (F (107, 3) =33.857 p=0.000<0.05). The results indicated that budget planning had a positive and significant effect on the performance; budget compliance had a positive and significant effect on performance. Further, the study found that budget reviews positively and significantly influenced performance. The study recommends that budget planning practices of public TVETIs be reviewed at the policy level to ensure that the communication processes used in the institutions be improved so that the impact of budget planning can continue to shape performance positively and significantly. Furthermore, it is recommended that personnel allocated duties related to budgetary practices in public TVETIs seek to adhere to legislative and best practices guidelines. Future studies should be done to investigate the implementation of budgeting practices in both public and private TVETIs in other Counties in Kenya. The aim of the studies should be to determine whether there is consistency in implementation and whether they have a significant effect on performance