dc.description.abstract | Community participation mean an open process in which the rights of the community to be
informed, to provide comments to the government and to receive a response from the
government are met through expression of needs and goals. Effective community participation
ensures that government decisions and policies reflect the public interest. It enhances
transparency and accountability, project ownership and proper utilization of resources. Despite
the Government of Kenya’s (GK) efforts to come up with legislations that provide for people’s
participation, there have been challenges in terms of informing the populace on these provisions
and creating platforms and enabling environment for involvement. The purpose of this study
was, to establish factors that influence community participation in NG-CDF projects, with the
case of NG-CDF projects in Mwingi West sub county, Kitui County, Kenya. Among the
objectives that will be studied include; establishing how demographic characteristics influence
community participation in NG-CDF projects in Mwingi West Sub County, examining the extent
to which culture influence community participation in NG-CDF projects. The anticipated
significance of this study was to inform policy on NG-CDF projects, the structures of decision
making on the use of the devolved funds at all stages of implementation, to help improve
effectiveness and value for money. This study targets 35 projects with funding amount of Sh.
800,000 and above. The projects are spread throughout the four wards of Mwingi west sub
county, which are Migwani ward, Kiomo/Kyethani ward, Kyome/Thaana Ward and Nguutani
ward. From 35 projects the researcher will sample 32 projects. The sample size will be
determined by use of Krejcie and Morgan (1970) sampling table which made a sample size of 99
respondents from the sampled projects. Purposeful censuring method will be used to select the
NG-CDF manager, 2 NG-CDF committee members’ top officials, and 32 PMC chairperson
secretary and a project beneficiary from each sampled project. Further a stratified random
sampling method will be used to select the 99 respondents from the four wards in proportionate
to their population sizes. Data will be collected using questionnaires with the help of 4 research
assistants. The data will be analyzed using descriptive statistics where descriptive summaries like
frequencies and percentages will be used, and later presented using frequency distribution tables. | en_US |