Abdikadir Mohamed2026-02-042026-02-042025-06https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/32261A Research Project Submitted to the School of the Law, Arts and Social Sciences in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Master of Arts in Public Policy and Administration of Kenyatta University supervisor Wilson MunaInadequacy of livestock market has been alluded to as the most causative factor to the incompetence in the livestock marketing, there is need for vibrant livestock policies to guide the marketing infrastructure for sustainable development. Despite the existence of livestock policy in form of sessional paper number 3 of the year 2020 and the Samburu’s Livestock Sale Yards Act, (2018), the implementation, maintenance as well as the sustainability of the market infrastructure is still wanting as exhibited by most sales yards being in a depilated condition. The study was geared towards evaluating the Livestock Policy Implementation and the Sustainability of Livestock Marketing Infrastructure in Samburu Count. The research objectives were to: assess how stakeholder’s involvement affects sustainability, establish the effects of revenue sharing, evaluate the effects of networking among stakeholders, and examine the effects of capacity of managing committee on sustainability of livestock sale yards. The study was anchored on the Tragedy of commons, Stakeholders and Collaborative Policy Networks theories. The target population was 7266 persons comprising of sale yards’ management committee, County government officials and sales yard stakeholders. Both stratified and purposive sampling techniques were utilized in selecting a total of 445 respondents that included 54 sale yard management committee, 12 county government officers and 445 stakeholder representatives. The study employed descriptive design and used semi-structured questionnaires and an interview guide to collect data. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS and by both inferential and descriptive indicators. The results of the research were presented through pie charts, frequency tables, percentages as well as graphs. Regression model was utilized to ascertain the existed correlation between the independent variables and the dependent variable as well as demonstrating future correlation between the variables. The study established that most of the livestock sales yard representing were in dilapidated state, indicating that there was a big problem in their management as well as its sustainability. The study also established that a very small number officials of the livestock sales yards’ management committee kept the updated lists of stakeholders, while majority did not keep stakeholder’s lists. Similarly, the study established that only a few of livestock sales yards’ markets held annual general meetings (AGMs), whereas the majority did not. The study too established that a small number of the sale yards received support, while the majority did not get support from either institution. The findings indicated that the major support received was for the construction of markets, followed by capacity building, management committee and the least support was from influencing revenue shares. The study found out that the bulk of the stakeholders had not participated in any sales yards’ activities and well as of the respondents were not satisfied with the performance of management committee of the Livestock sales yards in Samburu County. The study concluded that there was minimal County government support on critical issues regarding the management of livestock sales yards mainly in the areas of capacity building, financial management, record keeping, and facilitation in holding annual general meetings (AGMs) as well as auditing of the revenue shared and developments at the respective 18 sales yards in. These gaps critically affected the sustainability of the Livestock sales yard. The study recommends that cess revenue collection should be done in an organized manner with similar receipt in all the Livestock Sales Yard. The study also recommends that there should be measures in place to guide the networking of all stakeholders in the livestock trade. The study recommends imposition of minimum of O- level educational thresholds on the leadership requirements. Finally, the study recommends that a similar study be conducted in non-arid or semi-arid counties to establish how the policies are being implementedenThesis