Factors Influencing Sustainability Of Donor Funded Primary Schools Programme In Kibra, Nairobi County, Kenya.

Abstract

The right to education is a must to every human being as it is a key determinant of health, population dynamics and economic development. Regardless of where we come from, ethnicity, age, economic status, and sex, we all have equal rights to access quality basic education. The Basic Education Act of 2013 has categorized the education institutions as public institutions and private institutions. The primary schools may access the Free Primary Education (FPE) funds enabling provision of learning materials, purchase and maintenance of school infrastructure, payment of teachers salary and other expenses is a challenge to the schools which eventually affects the quality of education been offered in the schools but this funds may not be sufficient for the projects that need to be implemented in a school. Donors partner with the schools so as to address the gap through implementation of schools programmes. Little or no involvement of the stakeholders in the implementation process, lack of sustainability of the programmes may lead to the abandonment of the programmes the donor funding withdrawal. The purpose of the study was to establish the factors influencing the sustainability of donor funded primary schools programme in Kibra, Nairobi County. The objectives established how leadership structures influence the sustainability of donor funded primary schools programme in Kibra, to examine the extent to which stakeholders are involved in sustainability of donor funded primary schools programme in Kibra and to establish how monitoring and evaluation influences the sustainability of donor funded primary schools programme in Kibra. The study employed descriptive survey design. The study used questionnaires to collect data from sampled respondents. Stratified random sampling method was used to generate a representative sample size. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Statistical Package for Social Sciences aided in generation of results. Frequency tables and percentages were incorporated to present data. The study established that donor funded primary schools programmes were sustainable after donor withdrawal. Factors found to influencing sustainability of donor funded primary schools programmes were mainly leadership structures and strategic plans, stakeholders’ involvement and M&E of programmes. The findings of the study showed the leadership of the schools were committed to achieve the objectives of ongoing projects, the stakeholders’ involvement in the project stages, monitoring and evaluation was carried regularly by the teachers and representatives of the board of management. The study recommended that the target beneficiaries and other stakeholder should be involved in the implementation process right at the initial stages, enabling them to own the programmes as they would effectively run the programmes after withdrawal of the donor funding as their participation would greatly contribute to sustainability of the programmes