Challenges of Public Private Partnership- Strategy Implementation in Management of Weighbridges by Kenya National Highways Authority

Abstract

Strategic management is the organization of a company’s resources in order to meet its objectives. By extension, strategy implementation is thus putting this organization into action. The strategy implementation is very important for the success of public private partnerships (PPP). A public private partnership is the coming together of public sector companies with private sector agencies through a contractual agreement to achieve a commonly shared goal at the same time achieving their individual objectives. The implementation of these public private partnership strategies is complicated since partners must achieve a shared objective as they are achieving their own business objective. The objective of this study was therefore to determine the challenges that were faced during public private partnership strategy implementation of the weighbridge management by Kenya National Highways Authority. The researcher adopted a case study research design. The study targeted senior managers within Kenya National Highways Authority and their private partners. The research instrument was an interview guide administered in a face-to-face meeting with the study’s key respondents. Primary data was analyzed by content analysis technique. The study revealed that the challenges of strategy implementation of PPP strategy in weighbridge management were resistance to change by transporters, lack of support from implementing partners, violence meted by the transporters and in-adequate equipment and technology. The study therefore suggests that further research should be carried out to determine the key success factors that made this strategy implementation a success and further research be carried out on the challenges of the formulation of PPP strategy for other projects in Kenya.