Influence of Resettlement on Livelihood of Project Affected Persons in Isinya Namanga Kajiado County, Kenya

Abstract

Resettlement is the process of moving people to a different place to live because they are no longer allowed to stay in the area they used to live. The purpose of this study was to establish the Influence of resettlement on livelihood of project affected person .The research objectives were to examine how Resettlement restoration arrangement influence livelihood sustainability of project affected persons in Isinya-Namanga,to establish how potential risk influence livelihood of project affected person in Isinya-Namanga Kajiado County,Kenya to examine how resettlement compensation influence livelihood of project affected person in Isinya–Namanga and to determine how the vulnerable persons influences livelihood of project affected persons in Isinya-Namanga.The study used Expost facto design, self developed questionnaire, Interview, and documentary analysis as tools for data collection. Qualitative data was analyzed and presented in themes while quantitative data was analyzed descriptively using percentage, frequencies, mean, and standard deviation. Inferentially, multiple regression analysis was used as tool of analysis to test for significance among various hypotheses. Descriptive statistics was summarized using the most dominant independent variable item as follows, objective 1 (50%, mean4.05, standard deviation0.979), objective 2,(40.4.4%,mean 3.63,standard deviation 1.191),objective 3,(44.2%,mean,4.25.standard deviation 0.810),objective 4 (45.2%.,mean 3.89,standard deviation 0.847). Four hypotheses were formulated and subsequently tested to establish the influence of various independent variables on livelihood thereof, all the four hypotheses were significant at α=.05 as the values obtained were as follows; hypothesis H0 1: (P=0.00˂P=0.05), H0 2: (P=0.00˂P=0.05), H0 3: (P=0.002˂P=0.05), H0 4: (P=0.00˂P=0.05). The small p-values (p<0.05) implies that there is a significant relationship among the variables leading to rejection of the null hypothesis and hence the research findings concluded that there is a significant relationship between all the independent variables and livelihood s of project affected persons. It is thus recommended that government to set out strategies for the Implementation of PAP, including the process through which to acquire the necessary land and easements for the Implements.