Factors influencing performance of monitoring and evaluation of nomadic health projects a case of save the children in Wajir county, Kenya

Abstract

For the nomadic health projects implemented by Save the Children monitoring and evaluation was not adequately addressed and this has affected the quality of information collected and the completion rate of the projects. Thus, this study sought to investigate factors influencing performance of monitoring and evaluation of nomadic health projects. The specific objectives were to determining stakeholder participation; assessing availability of funds and identifying capacity-building on the performance of M&E of nomadic health projects. The stakeholder and the program theory provided anchorage to the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design at Save the Children projects in Wajir County, Kenya, and this involved 250 respondents, which presented a sample size of 152 respondents. The study used questionnaires to collect data. Data analysis involved qualitative and quantitative techniques in analyses and presentation. Quantitative data analysis used the Statistical Package for Social Sciences to compute descriptive statistics such as percentages and frequencies, means and standard deviations besides regression analysis as an inferential statistic. Data was presented using tables. The study established that 71.1% of the respondents agreed that there was stakeholder participation as far as the monitoring and evaluation in the project organization was concerned, 78.2% agreed on availability of funds and 64.2% agreed on existence of capacity building the studied project organization with respect to monitoring and evaluation. The study concluded that stakeholder participation, availability of funds and capacity building all have significant influence on performance of the monitoring and evaluation. The study recommended that the finance managers of Save the Children should create a budget and ensure that adequate funds are always available for supporting the monitoring and evaluation activities. The project managers of Save the Children should increase capacity building by training different stakeholders on the need to utilize monitoring and evaluation. The project managers of nomadic health projects by Save the Children in Wajir County should establish strategies that would increase stakeholder participation. The study recommended further research to be conducted to link monitoring and evaluation and other aspects like project performance or implementation of nomadic health projects