Influence of Donor Conditions on Implementation of Total War Against Hiv/aids Projects’ in Nairobi County, Kenya

Abstract

Many donor funded TOWA projects aimed at eradicating HIV/AIDS in Kenya fail to meet their predetermined objectives. The purpose of the study was to examine the donor conditionalities and their influence on the implementation of TOWA projects in Lang‘ata Constituency, Nairobi County. The objectives of the study were to determine donor conditions on stakeholders‘ involvement and how it influences the implementation of TOWA projects; donor conditions on organizational capacities influence the implementation of TOWA project; donor conditions on technical capacities influence the implementation of TOWA projects; and donors‘ conditions on monitoring and evaluation systems influence the implementation of TOWA projects in Lang‘ata Constituency. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The target population of the study was 305TOWA project beneficiaries, 8 Manager of the project and 24 health workers in the TOWA projects. The study adopted a stratified random sampling technique TOWA project beneficiaries and purposive sampling technique for the manager of the project and health workers. Yamane‘s formula for determining sample size yielded a sample of 174 TOWA project beneficiaries. The 8 Manager of the project and 24 health workers in the TOWA projects were purposively sampled. Data was collected by use of questionnaires, interview schedule and focused group discussion. Quantitative data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and presented by use of graphs and tables. Qualitative data was analyzed by use of themes and sub themes followed by quotations for presentation. The study established that stakeholders‘ involvement had a significant influence on good implementation of TOWA projects. Good implementation is achieved when stakeholders‘ involvement through community commitment, assessment, trust, dialogue and feedbacks is ensured at every phase of the project cycle. The study also established that organizational capacities had a significant influence on good implementation of TOWA projects. In addition, organizational capacities such as labour, material, knowledge and skills and time result to good implementation of the TOWA projects. The study further established that technical capacities and project awareness were of great importance to improved good implementation of the TOWA projects, however, this largely depended on the ability to utilize the technology by improving knowledge and skills. The study found out that all the TOWA projects in Lang‘ata constituency have the monitoring and evaluation system in place as demanded by the donors. The projects faced various challenges like non-existence of policy, no systems in place to follow and lack of monitoring and evaluation of concept in the implementation of monitoring and evaluation. The study recommends that the implementing agencies should allow and encourage the beneficiaries to provide their financial, labour, material, knowledge and skills and time resource for project good implementation to be achieved. In addition, there should be strict adherence to members sharing of costs and the local knowledge and skills should be exhausted as this will ensure project good implementation in line with the donor conditions