Student Short Biography
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Dr. James Mushori holds a Bsc. Community Development (Egerton University), Master’s degree in Project Planning Management (University of Nairobi) and a Ph.D in Project Planning and Management (Monitoring and Evaluation Option) University of Nairobi. Through HIVOS Southern Hub, he has monitored and evaluated a Global Fund funded project to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) in eight Southern Africa Countries including South Africa, Swaziland (E-Swatini), Botswana, Zambia, Malawai, Zimbambwe, Lesotho and Namibia. His areas of research interest and expertise are participatory research, quantitative and qualitative research, baseline surveys, project monitoring and evaluation, gender and development, performance management and organizational capacity development, development research and infrastructure.
Currently, Dr. Mushori is a consultant at APEC Consortium Ltd, a firm that specializes in providing engineering consultancy services including in feasibility studies, detailed designs, monitoring and evaluation, project management and construction supervision of infrastructure projects, roads, airpots, railways, water and sanitation including building construction.
Email address: jameskenya23@yahoo.com
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Thesis / Project Title
Contractors’ Capacity Evaluation in Tender Award, Process Monitoring and Performance of Road Construction Infrastructural Projects in Nairobi County, Kenya.
Thesis / Project Abstract
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The study purpose was to establish how contractors’ capacity evaluation in tender award and process monitoring influences performance of road construction infrastructural projects in Nairobi County, Kenya. The predictor variables for the first four objectives were: financial ability, technical ability, management ability, contractors’ safety record, whereas the outcome variable was performance of road construction infrastructural projects in Nairobi, Kenya. The fifth objective was to establish the influence of combined contractors’ capacity evaluation in tender award on the outcome variable. Objective six sought to establish the moderating influence of process monitoring on the combined predictors and the outcome variable. The study used descriptive survey research and correlation research designs. A target population of 460 comprising public service vehicle drivers plying eastern bypass, and outer-ring roads in Nairobi, as well as the engineers from the construction firms was represented by a sample size of 210. Returned questionnaire were 154 representing 72.8% return rate. Stratified, proportionate and simple random techniques were employed. Questionnaires and interview schedules were administered to contractors and drivers respectively. By testing the null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha, second and third hypotheses failed to be rejected. In conclusion, process monitoring is a significant moderator in road construction. Contractors’ safety record is needed to deliver roads that will enhance the performance beyond completion. The study adds value to knowledge exposition in respect to project management especially during evaluation process for selecting effective contractors intended to contribute to performance of road construction infrastructural projects.
Research Supervisors
Prof. Charles Mallans Rambo, Ph.D
Dr. Charles Misiko Wafula, Ph.D
