Factors influencing access to poverty eradication funds by local communities in Kenya:A case of Yatta District, Machakos County
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2013Author
Kilungu, Fredrick M
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Poverty eradication fund plays a decisive role in appreciably improving the livelihoods of
different households’ and communities’ general socio-economic and political development at
which such funds are being administered as a strategy of reducing hunger and extreme poverty
affecting many rural and urban poor, mostly in many developing countries. This strategy
employed by many developing countries salient to reducing hunger and extreme poverty has
been influenced by several factors dictating its impacts in areas where it has been administered.
The purpose for this research study was therefore to investigate the factors influencing the access
of poverty eradication funds by local communities in Yatta District, Machakos County. The
objectives of the study were; to establish the extent to which information flow regarding poverty
eradication funds influences the local community’s access to poverty eradication funds, to assess
how the performance of investment undertakings by previous beneficiaries of poverty
eradication funds influences other potential groups to access such funds, to determine the
influence of education level of group members on access to poverty eradication funds in Yatta
District and to examine the influence of successful community based organizations in accessing
poverty eradication funds in Yatta District. This study used descriptive survey design with the
questionnaires as the main research instruments for collecting data. The target population was all
the legally registered local community organizations in Yatta District. Simple random sampling
was used to select the sample to be included in the collection and analysis. Data was analyzed by
both descriptive and inferential statistics. Frequency distribution Tables and analysis of variance
Tables were constructed. The findings of the study were that the extent to which information
flow regarding poverty eradication funds factually influence the local community’s access to
poverty eradication funds, there is a strong positive relationship between beneficiaries and
potential groups seeking poverty eradication funds, there is a significant relationship between
education level and access to poverty eradication funds and that there is strong positive
relationship between community based organizations and access to poverty eradication funds.
Based on the findings of the study, the researcher makes the following suggestions for further
research; factors affecting the management of poverty eradication funds, factors influencing the
investment of poverty eradication funds and the impact of poverty eradication funds on the
society development.
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Kilungu,Fredrick M.,2013.Factors Influencing Access To Poverty Eradication Funds By Local Communities In Kenya:A Case Of Yatta District, Machakos County.Publisher
University Of Nairobi
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