An Investigation on Causal Elements for Project Sustainability among Selected Nongovernmental Organizations in the Education Sector: A Case Ofnairobi County.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 1
Abstract
Sustainability of Non-governmental organizations is an area of concern to all development partners. The survival of these organizations in the current world with turbid Business environment is becoming almost impossible. Mostof them has come up with better methods to ensure that their project activities are sustainable. These organizations in NairobiCounty with projects in education sector are struggling to overcome the elephant of unsustainability in their projects. This forms the base for this study on an investigation on Causal elements for project sustainability among selected organizations in the education sector; a case of Nairobi County. The study was conducted under the aid of the followings pacific objectives of the study: To investigate how income diversification influences project sustainability among selected organizations in the education sector; To determine the influence of project conceptualization on project sustainability among the organization in the education sector; To examine the influence of strategic planning on project sustainability among these organizations in the education sector and to find out how monitoring and evaluation influence project sustainability among selected Non-governmental organizations in the education sector. The study used two theories, i.e. Resource dependency and European foundation quality theory. The research design that was used in the study is Descriptive survey design .The target population was made up of 200 top, middle, low, level managers and beneficiaries of the organizations. The sample size used was 174 respondents drawn from the target population using the Krejcie and Morgan’s table.Systematic random sampling technique was used. Questionnaireswas the major tool used to collect data. Data collected was both qualitative and quantitative.Quantitative data collectedwas analyzed by descriptive statistical method.Qualitative data from the questionnaire was analyzed through content analysis. Data analysis tools such as statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 22.0 and excel was used to aid in data analysis. The analysis involved calculation of Mean, standard deviation and percentage. Thedata analyzed was thenpresented in tabular form. Based on the influence of income diversification on project sustainability the finding shows that income diversification influence project sustainability to very high extent with percentage of 57.7% of respondents. On project conceptualization and sustainability, the findings indicates that project conceptualization has an influence on project sustainability to very high extent with percentage of 57.7%.on the influence of strategic planning on project sustainability, the finding shows that strategic planning has influence on project sustainability to Avery high extent with computed score of 56.4% of the respondents. On the influence of Monitoring and evaluation on project sustainability, the study show that Monitoring and evaluation influence project sustainability to very great extent with a mean of 1.74 and standard deviation 0.953 On strategic planning, strategic planning in NGOs is essential in ensuring that project activities are sustainable and finally on Monitoring and evaluation,system used ensures that there isa clear implementation of staffs and project resources. The study recommends that NGOs should search for conglomerate source of funding for their project activities to ensure sustainability, project beneficiaries should be involved right away from project conceptualization stage, and organizations should have an elaborate strategic plan and adopt strategic planning .And also NGOs to set up M&E systems .The study also recommends that further research should be done in similar issue but in different counties in Kenya which were not covered and also other sector as well.
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Fredrick Juma Syanya
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