| dc.description.abstract | This study set out to examine the influence played by monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
factors on performance of road project performance in Nyandarua County. The study
examined how M&E factors, influence project performance deliverables, such completion
within the set time and cost as well as achieving the right quality. This study was guided by
the following objectives: To determine how M&E agency factor influences performance of
road projects in Nyandarua County: To examine the extent to which M&E budgetary
allocation factor influences performance of road projects: To assess how Management
Information Systems used in M&E influences performance of road projects in Nyandarua
County: To assess to what extent capacity building in M&E influences performance of
infrastructural projects in Nyandarua County. The research study adopted a descriptive
research design to assess whether M&E factors influences the performance of road
infrastructure projects. The study targeted the employees of the Nyandarua county who are
directly or indirectly involved in monitoring and evaluation of road projects. The study
target population involved the project managers, field officers, employees in finance and
procurement departments as well as employees in infrastructure and road department. Due
to the need to get specific information with specific people, purposive sampling was used
to acquire sample from the target population. The data was drawn from the personal
perspectives of respondents, documentation (reports and evaluations) and interviews.
Descriptive analysis of the data collected was mainly done in narrative form using
descriptive statistics and Tables as appropriate. The results were assessed on whether they
agree with other similar studies done previously. The study found that the employees in the
county were not trained on monitoring and evaluation of projects. This is because a few of
them did needs assessment before initiating projects, however, no planning was done for
monitoring and evaluation, there was no monitoring of project schedules and expenditure,
no dissemination of information or documentation of lessons learnt. Most of the
employees charged with management of road projects and more so monitoring and
evaluation were not aware of the budgetary allocation for monitoring and evaluation or
what proportion it was of the total project budget. Surprisingly, most of them could not tell
the current budgets for their projects, too. It also found out that there is very poor
management of monitoring and evaluation information. The inadequacy of the
management of information system was characterized by poor means of monitoring and
evaluation data storage, poor data processing, poor means of dissemination of monitoring
and evaluation information. The results showed that primary beneficiaries (the community)
of the projects generally did not participate in monitoring and evaluation of road projects
and was heavily influenced by politics. Participation by other agencies in monitoring and
evaluation was very low. Nyandarua County needs to improve information management
system, increase budgetary allocation, agency participation and capacity building in
monitoring and evaluation in order to improve road project performance | en_US |
