Influence Of Women Management Skills On Performance Of Self Help Groups In Kiambu County, Kenya

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of women management skills on performance of self-help projects in Kiambu County. This study was guided by the following objectives; to establish the extent to which project identification skills influence the performance of SHG projects; to establish how stakeholders identification skills influence the performance of self-help groups; to establish the extent to which project implementation skills influence the performance of self-help and to establish how conflict resolution skill influence the performance of self-help group in Kiambu county. It is hoped that the findings of this study will help the management Social development office, Kiambu to understand the importance of developing women management skills on management of self-help project groups thus appreciating the application of such skills in the running of the day to day operations of projects within SHGs. It will also guide the development of policies and guidelines governing project identification, stakeholder participation, project implementation and conflict resolution skill practices while conducting activities of various self-help groups. This study will contribute to the existing knowledge in project management and to increasing performance standards amongst the self-help group leaders and members and the entire industry. The study on women management skills would provide a platform for more research in the area and would also be used as a source of references by scholars. The research adopted descriptive survey research design with a view of collecting information through administering questionnaires and interview guides to the sampled respondents. The targeted population of this study was 300 women across 6 sub counties in Kiambu namely Kiambu town , Thika town Juja town , Kikuyu town , Limuru town , Ruiru town out of which a sample of 192 respondents was be selected using Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table for determining sample size, at the confidence interval of 0.05 and confidence level of 95%. The study employed stratified random sampling and simple random sampling technique. Data collected was analyzed using SPSS and presented through percentages, standard deviation and frequencies to generate both descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the study have been presented using tables and explanation has been done in prose form.