| dc.description.abstract | The aim of this study was to investigate factors influencing performance of community
development training centers, the case study of Kitui central sub county, Kitui County,
Kenya.Performance is key in economic growth of the nation and its citizens. When a
nation implements effective and sufficient training centers, the citizens get an opportunity
to empower themselves economically. This study used the following specific objectives
in investigating the main objective; influence of free primary and secondary education on
performance of community development training centers, influence of availability of
training resources on performance of community development training centers in Kitui
Central Sub-county, Kitui County, Kenya, influence of level of staffing and quality of
trainers as part of government capacity building and resource on performance of
community development training centers in Kitui Central Sub-county, Kitui County,
Kenya, influence of curriculum offered on the performance of community development
training centers in Kitui Central Sub-county, Kitui County, Kenya. The target population
was constituted by trainees in community development training centers and the team of
staff in community development training centers. A sample of 30% was sufficient in
making the inference about the whole population. A questionnaire research instrument
having open ended, closed and rating questions was used. After data had been collected it
was keyed into computer data processing software (SPSS version 20) for further analysis.
Results of the study were presented in simple descriptive Tables of frequencies and
percentages. A cross tabulation of independent variables was finally computed for a chi-
square test in order to infer the population. The study found out that free primary and
secondary education was a factor that influenced performance of community
development centres in Kitui Central Sub County. It was also discovered that majority of
community development training centers lacked some important resources. The resources
missing included; planes, knitting machines, plumping wares among others. The study
also found out that staffing in most of community development training centers was low
and this greatly affected the performance of these centers. Finally curriculum covered
was playing important part in performance of these centers. The study concluded that
above factors are key to performance and a great emphasis ought to be given to their
operationalization. | en_US |
