Effects of Donor Funding on the Performance of Non-governmental Organisations in Kenya

Abstract

Donor funding plays and essential role in the operation and sustainability of NGOs in developing countries, Kenya being one of them. NGOs sorely depends on donor funding for their operations and activities. Over the years, Kenya has recorded a considerable upsurge in NGO numbers operating across various regions of the country .Irrespective of the recent importance and NGOs growth in Kenya, research focusing on performance in these NGOs lag behind in particular how donor funding impacts performance of these organizations. Therefore, this study’s determined impact of donor funding on the performance of the NGOs in Kenya, which focused on the NGOs operating within Nairobi County. Particularly, the research established the impact of both bilateral donor funding and multilateral donor funding on the performance of NGO in Kenya, which employed descriptive research method which a targeted population of 1213 registered NGOs in Nairobi, the number that the national survey of NGOs.......