Management Strategies and Sustainability of Children Homes in Nairobi County: a Case of Kasarani Sub – County, Kenya

Abstract

Project planning and management have always included the incorporation of a wide range of interventions into specific projects and programs. Charitable organizations in Kenya play critical roles in children's home programs, which complement the work of the government and international missions to provide residents with rehabilitative services. The primary purpose of this research is to analyze the effect that charity organization initiatives have on the long-term viability of children's homes in Nairobi County, Kenya. Stakeholder theory, institutional theory, and resource-based perspective theory will all serve as theoretical anchors for the investigation. The research strategy for this study will be descriptive in nature. It is appropriate for data collecting purposes, therefore a descriptive design will let the researcher characterize the features of the relevant variables of interest. Five management staff from each home and three community members living near the homes will form a population of 80 respondents. The study will employ census sampling method. This approach involves collecting data from the entire target population. Data will be gathered using questionnaires. Data from the staff and community members will be collected using a questionnaire guide which will be made up of structured and unstructured questions. Piloting will be conducted in Kiambu County and specifically in Thika town. Two children’s homes from Thika town will be targeted for the pilot study. Content and face validity will be employed for the study. A Cronbach’s alpha (α) will be adopted to test reliability. The Cronbach’s alpha ranges from 0-1. A α closer to 0 indicates less internal consistency while a α closer to 1 indicates a greater internal consistency. The researcher will go to the houses to ask residents for help with research. The surveys will be dropped out for employees to pick up when they have time. The information will be examined using both descriptive and inferential statistics. In order to identify the link between the research variables, descriptive statistics will be employed to generate summaries of the variables.