Strategic Planning And Implementation Of Constituency Development Funded Projects In Njoro Constituency, Nakuru County, Kenya

ABSTRACT

The Njoro constituency fund caters for six wards namely Mau Narok, Mauche,

Kihingo, Nesuit, Lare and Njoro Wards. The CDF project implementation has had

diverse challenges. For example, the auditor general noted that the failure to utilize

budgeted funds during the financial year negatively impacted on the project

implementations at the constituency level. This study aimed at examining the impact

of strategic planning on the project implementation in Njoro constituency. Amongst

the aspects that were examined included monitoring and evaluation, stakeholders’

participation, risk management and financial resources aspects. The specific

objectives included examination of influence of monitoring and evaluation,

stakeholders’ participation, risk management and financial resources on the

implementation of CDF project in Njoro Constituency, Nakuru County, Kenya. The

study was done using stakeholder theory, resource based view theory and dynamic

capabilities theory. The study was based on the descriptive research design. The target

population was all the project managers, committee members and community

representatives that were involved in the ongoing CDF projects in Njoro constituency

for the 2016/2017 financial year. The data collection was a questionnaire. The pilot

study was undertaken in Naivasha constituency with a view of not contaminating the

final study population. Both the descriptive and inferential statistics were undertaken.

The descriptive statistics that were used include means, standard deviations, and

frequency distributions. The inferential statistics for this study included multiple

linear regressions and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The multiple regression

model was deemed viable as the p value was 0.000 which satisfied the p