| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of the study was to find out community's perception on the effectiveness of Constituency Development Fund in Dujis Constituency. The specific objectives of the study were to explore the int1uence of community participation/involvement and perception, int1uence of prioritization of projects on community's perception, influence of management committee on community's perception and also the relationship between the distribution of projects and the community's perception. These variables were assessed in relation to the effectiveness of the implementation of the fund. Research questions were framed to assist the researcher in collection of data, while the significance of the study was established.
Literature review was done to help the researcher have an in-depth knowledge of the subject matter. Research design was a descriptive survey. The target population was all the inhabitants of Dujis Constituency and the sample size was 390 respondents spread across all the 13 wards of the vast constituency. Data collection instrument was the questionnaire and was randomly distributed to both the constituents and members of the CDF committee. The data provided information that formed the basis for discussions and interpretation of the results.
The data collected was analyzed and presented in tables, frequencies and graphs etc.The findings showed serious lack of clarity on the roles of the Member of Parliament on the management of CDF and the selection of the committee members. The findings further revealed that there is poor awareness by the community members on the projects been implemented at their localities.
From the findings it's concluded that the selection of the committee members was skewed towards male. Similarly the findings concluded that majority of respondents were male. Based on the findings of the research, it is concluded that majority of the ordinary constituents who took part in the study were adults and their jury of expert could be relied on while there was equally clear indicators that most of the respondents were knowledgeable with matters of local developments.
The findings also concluded that the political considerations overweighed economic consideration in both the identification or prioritization and subsequent implementation of the CDF projects. On the ranking of the CDF project in the constituency, both the committee members and the ordinary constituents were in agreement that projects related to education got a lion share of the fund while water sector got the least during the period of the study.
The finding further revealed that majority of the management committee members did not attended any training and the few who attended acknowledged that areas covered during the training were vogue showing clearly that the CDF was managed by ;people who had no management skills. Going by the findings of the study, it is concluded that the projects undertaken by CDF in Dujis constituency were shrouded in secrecy and hence highly upgraded conduit for corruption. | en_US |
