Influence of Management Teams’ Skills on Completion of Constituency Development Fund (Cdf) Projects in Public Secondary Schools in Kiharu Constituecy, Murang’a County, Kenya

Abstract

The study evaluated the influence of management teams’ skills on completion of CDF infrastructural development projects in Kiharu-based public secondary schools. The study had three objectives that sought to establish how school management team’s skills, technical expertise skills and monitoring and evaluation skills influenced completion of school infrastructural development projects in Kiharu-based secondary schools. The study is significant in finding the factors that hinder completion of projects and would be important in identifying the issues that affect the successful implementation of CDF funded projects with Kiharu Constituency. A descriptive research survey design was utilized to conduct the study. The study purposefully selected all the 25 principals, 50 members of the BOM and a CDF chairperson hence the sample size used was 76. The researcher relied on self-administered questionnaire and interview schedule. Means, standard deviations and Pearson’s correlation coefficient were used to analyses the data. The study established that school management teams managing the public secondary schools in Kiharu Constituency lack strong project managerial competence, many of school infrastructure development projects fail to complete due to lack of technical expertise by the institution management teams and that they lack Monitoring and Evaluation skills which impeded timely completion of school infrastructure development projects. The study concludes that between school management team’s project management skills, management team’s technical expert skills and M&E skills have considerable impact on project completion of the Kiharu-based infrastructural projects implemented within secondary schools. Based on this, the study recommends that the CDF office should ensure that the school management teams are trained on managerial skills since it was seen to have influence onthe completion of institution infrastructure development projects, secondary school principals should be trained on project management skills, financial accounting and auditing to boost their technical competence and that Ministry of Education should train institution principals and the BOM on technical expertise skills.