| dc.description.abstract | Project managers are always looking forward to seeing public projects perform well. This
involves finishing the project on time, within budget, meeting end product specifications,
meeting customer needs and requirements and meeting management objectives. Despite the
quest for project success, many poverty eradication projects in Kenya have continuously
experienced time overrun, budget overrun, unmet end product specifications, unmet customer
needs and requirements and unmet management objectives (Auditor general’s report, 2008). The
high failure rate in these projects could be due to failure to involve key stakeholders in project
activities. Various studies elsewhere have been conducted in evaluating stakeholders’
involvement in project outcome but there is no study done about Kigumo Girls Academic Centre
of Excellence project despite it facing many challenges related to timelines and cost based
challenges. The purpose of this study was to evaluate stakeholders’ involvement in project
outcome through gathering and analyzing the information on the level of involvement of
stakeholders in the process of project cycle management (PCM). The study sought to assess
stakeholders involvement in project identification, project planning, project execution and
project review on project outcome. This study employed descriptive survey design. The target
population for this study was the various stakeholders in the ESP programme precisely Kigumo
girls Centre of Excellence project in Kigumo constituency. Data was collected from a sample of
418 respondents. The primary data was collected from the community members using a semistructured
questionnaire. In addition to questionnaire, the other primary data was obtained
through interview to and observations. The researcher analysed the quantitative data using
descriptive statistics by applying the statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS V.17.0).
Conceptual content analysis was used for data that was qualitative in nature or aspect of the data
collected from the open ended questions and the interview guide. In addition, a correlation
analysis was applied to determine the relative importance of each of the four variables with
respect to project outcome. This study found that stakeholders involvement in project
implementation contributed most to project outcome (r = 0.971) followed by project review (r=
0.681), then project planning (r =0.651) while projects identification (r = 0.571) had the least
influence on project outcome. The study recommends that enough funds and skills should be
allocated to projects. The study also recommends that the constituents should play a critical role
in decision making because they are the beneficiaries of the projects and know well projects are
beneficial to them. | en |
