An assessment of factors that influence the management of quality care to orphans and vulnerable children
Abstract
The rise in the number of orphans and vulnerable children is emerging at a time when
the capacity of families to respond to the crisis is increasingly compromised by the
breakdown and or weakening of the social system that traditionally offered social
protection to these children. Therefore, orphans and vulnerable children (OVC)
become a major concern internationally, regionally and nationally.
To address this problem, community-based organizations (CBO) have been formed to
deal with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) at the grass root level. This study
was to find out whether leadership of this community based organizations possessed
the required management skills to offer quality care to the orphans and vulnerable
children.
The objectives of this study were: to find out the extent to which planning influenced
the management of quality care to orphans and vulnerable children by community
based organizations in Imenti North District, to establish whether the organization
within a community based organization affected the management of quality care to
orphans and vulnerable children, to find out whether leadership within a community
based organization contributed to the management of quality care to orphans and
vulnerable children, and to identify how coordination and control of community based
organizations influenced the management of quality care to orphans and vulnerable
children.
This study used a descriptive research design by use of survey method.
Questionnaires were used to collect data. This data was analyzed by employing
descriptive statistics such as percentages, frequencies and presented in tables and
descriptive analysis. The findings showed that the leadership of these community
based organizations possessed the required management skills to offer quality care to the orphans and vulnerable children. However, many of them were not offering
quality care because of other challenges like lack of funding and support from the
government and the scarcity of donors.
The study concluded that the community initiative was the way to go, but they
required more support especially from the government in areas like capacity building,
monitoring and evaluation, sustainability and management training. Therefore, these
grass root organizations need to be more empowered as they are undertaking a noble
initiative.
Sponsorhip
University of NairobiPublisher
Faculty of Arts
Subject
Orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs)Management of quality care
Community based organizations
Imenti North district
Kenya
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