Grace Ndoti Mutuku is an intelligent and conscientious professional who effectively combines an outstanding academic background with a wealth of transferable skills. Adept at applying analytical problem-solving and planning capabilities to develop innovative and creative solutions to problems and to manage projects from conception through to successful completion. Possesses exceptional interpersonal, communication and staff management skills, demonstrated during a history of building and maintaining positive working relationships. A success-driven individual with the ability to perform in highly pressurized and challenging working environments, offering a significant contribution whether operating independently or leading an efficient and productive team. Grace Mutuku is currently a project officer at Dominion Daughters, a women group that empowers women by making them land and home owners. Grace Mutuku holds a degree in Community Development from Daystar University. She has previously worked at Grandsons of Abraham as a social worker and her main responsibility was to take children from the street take them through rehabilitation and reunite them with their families this is where she developed a passion to help children hence the reason for the study.
Influence of Performance Strategic Practices on the Performance of Children Protection Projects in Kenya; a case of Kwale County.
Research Supervisors
Dr. Johnbosco Kisimbii
Children abuse cases are on the rise across the globe despite the various campaigns, laws, and efforts aimed at eliminating the vice. It is against such worrying trends of children abuse cases that this study was envisioned. The following objectives shall guide the study: To examine the extent to which economic support, quality care, education providence, and to find out the level to which harms prevention influences the performance of children protection programs in vulnerable regions, a case of Kwale County. This study used a descriptive survey design. This is because this study was purely descriptive. A target population of 78 respondents was used. The researcher concludes that economic support is a key determinant factor in the success of children protection projects. Quality care influences the performance of Children Protection Projects. Most key among the quality care factor that influences the performance Children Protection Projects include the: amount of care provided; duration of care of providence; source of children care; timing of given care initiatives; packaging of care activities or initiatives; knowledge of children rights. The researcher further concludes that education providence to the community, the children guardians and other stakeholders is crucial in the implementation of Children Protection Projects and their performance. Harms prevention is another factor that influences the performance of children protection projects significantly. The various indicators of harms prevention include risk factors for victimization; risk factors for penetration; family risk factors; environmental risk factors; co-occurring risk factors; physical harm; future harm; neglect harm; and psychological harm.
