| dc.description.abstract | Early childhood development around the world faces a lot of challenges in
management and implementation of financial grants at the school level. In Kenya, the
government provides financial aids to primary schools to foster the management and
implementation of ECD, however, many children do not benefit from these grants due
to myriads of challenges. The objective of this study was focused on economic,
administrative and social challenges facing the implementation of CSG projects in
Kakamega Central District. The purpose of the study was to find out the factors
influencing the implementation of CSG project in Kakamega Central District. A
descriptive survey design was used to carry out this study. The target population was
70 ECD Community support Grant program management committee members
(chairman), 70 head teachers and 140 teachers of the ECD in the schools that have
received CSG Grants in the District. A sample size of 30% of each of the target
population was purposively stratified and randomly sampled. Questionnaires and
interview schedules were used to collect data from respondents. The Data collected
was analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative techniques and later subjected to
SPSS package treatment and Microsoft excel. Frequencies, means and percentages
were used to organize, describe and summarize data. A Pearson’s product moment
formula for test re-retest was employed to compute the correlation coefficient.
Correlation coefficient of r= 0.05 or above was accepted. The validity of the
instrument was measured by preparing the instrument to cover each study of the
objectives and by seeking the opinion of experts in the department of Planning and
Management of the University of Nairobi It is hoped the study shall be of beneficial
to the Ministry of Education in redesigning its strategies in funding CSG projects.
School management committees should find it prudent in re-evaluating ways of
tackling socio-economic and administrative challenges facing implementation of CSG
programmes in schools that eventually benefit the learners greatly as their learning
environment become learner friendly. In this study it was revealed that the main socio
economic and administrative challenges facing the implementation of CSG project
were: untimely disbursement of inadequate funds; illiteracy levels among the
community members and autocratic leadership coupled with corruption respectively.
The study recommends that there need to continuously pre-sensitize the all the
stakeholders before the actual implementation of CSG project begins. Government
support was found to be lacking and therefore the study strongly agitates for complete
partition and involvement of the government. Further research can be done at
National level to harmonize effective of such projects in the country. It is believed
that the findings of the study may help policy makers to; disburse funds in time,
disburse enough funds and monitor the usage of the funds once released to the
schools. | en |
