Student Short Biography
(Max 250 words)
I studied the undergraduate degree at the University of Nairobi where I graduated in the year 2015. I studied under distance learning programmes where I was studying Bachelor in Education Arts with a combination of Business studies and Geography and got second class upper division .I joined the University of Nairobi for the masters of Meru Branch in 2018 and studied for two years attending evening classes and weekends pursuing masters in project planning and management.
Michaelmbaabu1@gmail.com
Thesis / Project Title
Influence of sustainable a community water project in Imenti South Meru County.
Thesis / Project Abstract
(Max 250 words)
Sustainability is an aspired outcome for any project.Its a long term process based on achievement of objectives.It then accelerates the successful performance and fasters change in the area of implementation factors under the study included community participation,funding levels,resource availability and monitoring and evaluation analysis .They formed the research questions for the study and formed the theme for the literature review. The study adopted the theories with related knowledge regarding the study topic which included MC Clelahd need achievement theory,freirean theory of dialogue and society and the theory of constraints.
Qualitative and quantitative data were used from where the study population included the water beneficiaries.
Water staffs,Government officials and the ministry of water officials.Decline survey design was adopted on the population target.
Sampling proportionate random sampling technique was used to collect samples from the targeted population.The target population was 135 from which a sample size of 70 drawn to represent .Both open and closed ended questionnaire were administered and filled by the respondents.Secondary sources of data like journals,magazines,books,research papers and articles as well as internet.Collected data was analysed by method os statistical package for social scientists(SPSS)and the result findings presented in tables and figures from the findings its clear that community participation affected the ownership of the community water project from which the community people did not even feel the satisfaction in using it.
Finding levels were also a concern because all projects depend on certain allocated budget to operate in. Therefore with little allocation the project could not sustain some of its operations hence influencing the sustainability.
As seen resources were a vital segment in ensuring the project proposed but from the findings there as inadequacy in availability of resources therefore this contributed greatly to some project processes declining the performance.
Also the level of monitoring and evaluation analysis was not very well collected because most of the beneficiaries were not involved in the progress of the project as well as timeliness to which the analysis was done was not adequate.The recommendations based on study findings is that community participation should be highly incooporated since these are the owners of the projects as they offer labour as well as contribute in finding and resources.Finding levels should be well allocated in adequacy and early disbursement at early stages for assessment on the progress it was recommended that monitoring should be frequently carried out to avoid any upcoming issues that may affect performance of the project.The conclusion was that there was correction between the independent and dependent variables on sustainability of community based project,resource availability,monitoring and evaluation community participation and finding levels.
Research Supervisor
Prof.Chistopher Gakuu P.H.D
