Influence of Stakeholders Participation on the Performance of Health Projects: a Case of Kitui County, Kenya.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of stakeholder participation on the performance of health projects in Kitui central sub-county, Kitui County. This research has four guiding objectives namely; to determine how stakeholder participation in project decision making influence the performance of health projects in Kitui central Sub county, to establish the extent to which project resource mobilization influence the performance of health projects in Kitui central Sub county, to examine the level to which stakeholder participation influence the performance of health projects in Kitui central Sub county, and to assess the level at which stakeholder participation on project closure influence the performance of health projects in Kitui central Sub county. The study was guided by two theories and these were decision making theory and stakeholder theory. The research used descriptive research design alongside qualitative and quantitative methods of research approach which included questionnaires. A sample size of 205 respondents was drawn from target population of 440 of the stakeholders who included project management committees representing the community, the county government executives in particular administrative officers and the sub county health engineers. To select sampled respondents, stratified simple random techniques was used. The reliability of the questionnaire was evaluated through Cronbach’s Alpha which measures the internal consistency. The primary data was collected using structured questionnaires and analysis was done by use of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) and descriptive statistics then summarize the data.