| dc.description.abstract | The main purpose of the study was to examine the influence of stakeholders’ participation on performance of charitable children institutions in Kisumu East Sub-county, Kisumu county. Specific objectives of the study included; to establish to the extent to which stakeholders’ participation in decision making influence performance in charitable children institutions in Kisumu East Sub-county, Kisumu County; to assess how stakeholders participation influence financial allocation influence performance in charitable children institutions in Kisumu East Sub-county, Kisumu county; to examine to the extent to which stakeholders participation in planning influence performance in charitable children institutions in Kisumu East Sub-county, Kisumu county and to establish to the extent to which stakeholders’ participation in monitoring and evaluation influence performance in charitable children institutions in Kisumu East Sub-county Kisumu County. Descriptive survey research design was adopted and correlation research design. A target population of 760 residents was used in the study where a sample size of 100 respondents was picked who included; charitable children institution managers, boards of management, care givers and the project end users. A set of structured and unstructured questionnaires were used to collect data from respondents. Mixed sampling approach was applied including stratified sampling, purposive sampling, cluster sampling and simple random sampling. Data collected was analyzed by the help of a Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21.0 and data presented in frequencies and percentages and summarized in tables and figures.Pearson corretion significance was used to test the objectives. Data analysis, presentation and interpretation was was turpulated with the following findings; that decision making and project performance had a strong and positive correlation of r = 0.492, p <0.05. On financial allocation and project performance the findings revealed that correlation of r = 0.696, p <0.05 had a strong and positive correlation. The test results revealed that stakeholder participation in planning had a strong positive correlation with performance of charitable children institutions with a correlation of r = 0.691, p<0 .005 and finally monitoring and evaluation had a strong and positive correlation with performance of charitable children institutions where r = 0.594, p<0.000. The study was concluded with summary of research finding, discussion, conclusion and finally the recommendations. The study successfully identified areas for further research for other scholars. | en_US |
