| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to establish influence of the selected factors in the implementation
of infrastructural development projects in public secondary schools in Meru central subcounty in Kenya.
The specific objectives were:- to determine the influence of availability of
funds in the implementation of infrastructural development projects in public secondary schools
in Meru central sub-county in Kenya, to establish the influence of monitoring and evaluation
practices in the implementation of infrastructural development projects in public secondary
schools in Meru central sub-county in Kenya, to establish the influence of stakeholders’
involvement in the implementation of infrastructural development projects in public secondary
schoolsin Meru central sub-county in Kenya and finally to determine the influence of the board
of management managerial skills in the implementation of the infrastructural development
projects in public secondary schools in Meru central sub-county in Kenya . Meru central subcounty
has 44 registered public secondary schools and census was used in this research.
Principals, B.O.M chairs, teachers’ representative in the school board of management and the
school bursars in the 44 schools comprised the study respondents. The study employed primary
and secondary data. The instrument used to collect primary data was questionnaires. The
instruments of the study were validated before actual data collection by consulting the supervisor
and expert in research field to ensure that the item measured what it intended to measure. The
scores obtained from the pilot respondents were correlated to determine the instruments
reliability through test re-test method. On the other hand, secondary data was sourced from
literature review and from the ministry of education publications. The researcher used both
qualitative and quantitative data analysis technique. Data analysis involved the interpretation of
information obtained from the respondents and was analysed using SPSS. Findings were
compiled into a report and a conclusion drawn. Data was presented in tables, and analysed using
descriptive statistics. The study found that there was a good availability of funds for projects
implementation in the schools, that monitoring and evaluation in implementation of
infrastructural school development projects is carried out and mainly by BOM, that there was a
good participation of stakeholders in implementation of school projects in schools and that BOM
in schools possess some managerial skills. The study concluded that stakeholders’ involvement
had the greatest effect on implementation of infrastructural development projects in Kenya
followed by school BOM managerial skills, then availability of funds while monitoring and
evaluation had the least effect on the implementation of school infrastructural development
projects in Kenya. The study recommended that there is need for more stakeholder involvement
in the process of implementation of infrastructure projects in public secondary schools, that the
government through the Ministry of Education (MOE) should organize training programs on
project management skills, project finance and project monitoring and evaluation for all the
stakeholders involved in school infrastructure projects, that the government should encourage the
school management to aim at diversifying their sources of funds by engaging in income
generating activities, education stakeholders should ensure that they work as a team with the
school community by embracing a participatory approach so that they are aware of the daily
running of the school as well as understanding the objectives of the school projects and that the
BOM should equip itself with managerial skills through personal violation and that the schools
should advance in usage of external expertise in monitoring and evaluating implementation of
school projects. | en_US |
