Women Stakeholders Participation and Performance of Community Water Development Projects Implemented by Athi Water Works Development Agency

Abstract

Water ministry has been undergoing various reforms aimed at promoting performance and sustainability of its projects. Nonetheless, there is a general acceptance that stakeholder participation influence project performance however the influence of women stakeholder participation on performance community water development projects is not clear. This study therefore sought to establish the influence of women stakeholder participation on performance of community water development projects implemented by Athi water works agency. Cross sectional survey design was adopted for this study with questionnaires for data collection. Project manager, top management board members, operational staffs in the projects, and engineers were randomly and purposively selected from the 3 completed and 10 ongoing projects randomly selected within Athi water works area of jurisdiction. Research questionnaire was subjected to face validity and Cronbach Alpha test used to test the instrument reliability. Graphs, frequencies, and tables were used to summarize data while regression used test the study hypotheses. The findings revealed that 79.1% (R2=0.791) of project performance was influenced by the available women stakeholder participation in initiation, planning, and execution. Simialry, all the coefficients for the dependent variables; women participation in project initiation, women participation in project planning, women participation in project execution in the model are statistically significant (p-values ˂ 0.05) and thus influence the performance of community water development projects implemented by Athi water works development agency.