Factors influencing completion of selected Kenya police service housing projects in central Kenya
Abstract
In almost every part of the world, Kenya included, projects are initiated for a specific purpose,
which should be achieved within a stipulated time frame and agreed budget. This should be the
position if the client, the project initiator, has to get value for their money. However occasionally
this might not happen and the project life cycle process get disrupted at the initiation, planning or
design, execution or implementation, or even at the closure stage. Kenya Police Service Housing
project in Central Kenya is an example of uncompleted project. This research project
investigated factors which influenced the completion of selected five police housing projects in
Othaya and Karatina in Nyeri county, Kangema in Murang’a county and Thika and Kikuyu
police stations in Kiambu county. The research adopted a case study design and looked at the
factors that generally impacted on project life cycle process at the execution or implementation
phase, where both quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted. Data was collected by
interviewing purposefully sampled stakeholders involved in the implementation or execution of
the five housing projects. The stakeholders sample size was 70 arrived at by purposively
sampling the Main Contractor, the three sub-contractors for Electrical, Plumbing and Drainage,
and Low and High level water tanks respectively for each of the five selected housing projects
and for the five projects combined, the client representative, the Accountant, the Procurement
officer, the Project Manager, the project Architect, Quantity Surveyor, Electrical Engineer,
Mechanical Engineer, Structural Engineer and the Clerk of works, thus 14 respondents for each
project. The data was analyzed using descriptive and quantitative statistics, according to the
research questions and objectives of the study. Collected data was subjected to content analysis
by focusing on how all individuals responded to questions in each objective and then organizing
them by objectives and questions in each objective to look across all respondents and their
answers in order to identify consistencies and differences which were generalized. The study
found out that, all Police Service Housing project in Central region were not completed. Major
cause of delay in completion was delay in release of funds from the Government. All contractors
had capacity to carry out project implementation since majority were experienced and selected
competitively. Adequate monitoring and evaluation also took place to access progress. The study
also found out that there was unfavorable project prioritization policy on completion of the
housing projects which affected project completion negatively.
Publisher
University of Nairobi
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- Faculty of Education (FEd) [6020]