Njuguna, Peter Gitau2021-03-022021-03-022019-11http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/21708A Research Project Submitted to the School of Business in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Award of Degree in Master of Business Administration (Project Management) of Kenyatta University. November, 2019Projects are prone to risks the numerous types of risks that may affect a project are financial, strategic, hazardous and operational risks. Unexpected events and uncertainty often result to damaging consequences for projects. If these risks are not effectively dealt with, they may pose a challenge in the completion of the project. Therefore, risk analysis and management of risks is a major feature of project management in which project managers need to effectively deal with the risks and uncertainty in order to fully achieve the vision of the project. Project performance is determined by factors such as cost, customer satisfaction, time, health, client changes and business performance the concept of project delays as a result of risk is now a global phenomenon. The study’ general objective was to determine the influence of risk management practices on performance of projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The study was guided by the following specific objectives; to determine the influence of risk retention on project performance in Nairobi City County, Kenya, to investigate how risk prevention affects performance of the projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya, to examine the effect of risk control on performance of projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya and to evaluate how risk transfer affects the performance of projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The study will be guided by the Enterprise Risk Management theory, Network theory and the Expectancy Theory. The study adopted a descriptive design in order to determine how risk management practices with respect to the following independent variables risk prevention, risk retention, risk transfer and risk control and how they affect the performance of projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The study used primary data. The study employed semistructured questionnaires to gather relevant information from a total of 135 project managers, supervisors, risk managers, construction firms and finance officers. The data collected was then analyzed using SPSS and findings of the study were presented in graphs, pie charts and tables. The study established that risk management practices have a significant and positive effect on project performance. The study concluded that risk transfer had a significant and to a great extent affected the performance of the projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya. It was also concluded that risk transfer is significantly embraced, applied and practiced among firms implementing projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The study concluded that risk prevention significantly affected project performance. It was concluded that risk prevention is embraced among organizations executing projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya as a risk management practice and it has enhanced project completion within scope, budget and time schedule. The study further concluded that there a significant and positive relationship between risk control and project performance. Risk control was significantly practiced among the organizations involved projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya and had a significant influence on project performance. It was concluded that risk retention had a positive and significant effect on the performance of the projects. To great extent, risk retention as a risk management practice had a positive effect on project performance. The study recommends that the management of the projects need to ensure the risk management practices are integrated in project implementation. Most of the practices were in place but were not effectively employed to ensure peak performance. The organizations were found to be skeptical on planning for risks and taking risk management steps and therefore for peak performance there is need to have a risk management plan in place and stick by it.enRisk Management PracticesPerformance of ProjectsNairobi City CountyKenyaThesis