Strategy Implementation at United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) Kenya
Abstract
Strategy implementation is the process that turns implementation strategies and plans into
actions to accomplish objectives. It is always more difficult to do something (strategy
implementation) than to say you are going to do it (strategy formulation). For successful
strategy implementation, an organization should understand the impact of strategy on external
environment, internal resources and competences, and the expectations and influence of
stakeholders.
The objective of the study was to determine the strategy implementation and establish the
challenges encountered in implementation of strategy in UNICEF Kenya. The research
design was a case study of the UNICEF Kenya. The data collection tool was an interview
guide where content analysis was used to analyze the qualitative primary data which had been
collected by conducting interviews from the respondents.
The study found out that the strategies which are being implemented by UNICEF (K) were
formulated in their headquarters and the local office has to localize the strategies to the local
set ups, top-down approach was being used to formulate the strategies, upper level
management are normally the ones implementing the strategies in the organization although
in some cases random sampling is employed on employees to spearhead the implementation
of strategies.
The challenges which the organization faced were bureaucracy in the organization,
leadership, rewards and resources and organizational structure. The challenges were brought
by lack of adequate leadership, transfers of staff mid-implementation of the project and also
the management constantly hiring consultants, lack of ownership of projects by staff
members and slowness which in some cases leads to the loss of opportunities to achieve
target results.
From this, the organization should be able to come up with appropriate measures to overcome
the challenges early enough before they affect much, the realization of its objectives.
Publisher
University of Nairobi
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