| dc.description.abstract | Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) is a development strategy implemented in 2003 through an Act of parliament to facilitate the transfer and mobilization of resources at the constituency level. Unlike the previous development policies, money is allocated to each of the two hundred and ten constituencies for community based development programmes. The study focused on the strategies applied by Mwala CDF management to implement constituency development programmes and the challenges involved in such strategies. The study was conducted through a case study and data was collected using an interview guide administered on five respondents involved in decision making. The data was analyzed using content analysis.
The study found out that, Mwala CDF management applies; effective coordination, community empowerment, communication process, consensus building and conflict resolution strategies to implement constituency development programmes. However, the application of these strategies faces challenges associated with ineffective leadership, implementation teams, ineffective communication and lack of commitment. The researcher recommends that government considers reviewing CDF Act to protect CDF from political interference, the study should be replicated in other constituencies and organizations implementing community based development programmes to facilitate benchmarking.
Leadership is the engine that drives strategy implementation. Organizations need to focus on human resource and deploy it appropriately. The study encountered limitations including suspicion due to political patronage and lack of research policy which hampered willingness and easy access to the interviewees. The researcher recommends the study to be replicated in other constituencies and organizations implementing community based development programmes for purposes of benchmarking. | en_US |
