| dc.description.abstract | Across the world, education has been, is and will be viewed as the world’s largest investment. In
the developed countries like USA and Canada education is given the largest share of the
governmental budget. Greatly emphasized on in these countries is the education that is aimed at
developing a child and preparing the child for the other chores in the society. In this view, the
MDGs emphasized on education for all across the world and the role ECE for both the developed
and developing countries.The Kenyan government has adopted the ECD Programme and funding
has been ongoing for almost 8 years now and some little achievements have been made though
the Programme is still faced by numerous challenges. The purpose of this study was to
investigate on the factors influencing the quality implementation of ECD programmes in Kisauni
sub-county. The research addressed the research problem by looking at four major objectives,
accompanied by some indicators that were be rated in the scale of measurement. The four
objectives in the research were:To examine the influence of socio-cultural factors in the
implementation of quality ECD programmes in Kisauni Sub-county of Mombasa County, to
examine the extent to which financial resources influence the implementation of ECD
programmes in Kisauni Sub-county of Mombasa County,to investigate the extent to which
administration influences the implementation ECD programmes in Kisauni Sub-county of
Mombasa County, and, to examine the extent to which parental factors influence the
implementation of ECD programmes in Kisauni Sub-county of Mombasa County.
Comprehensive literature review was done to gather information on the factors influencing
successful implementation of ECD projects from the previous researchers, followed with
structured questionnaire distribution and interview as tools to collect data. Questionnaires
enabled the researcher to collect data. Twenty one committee heads of ecd centers were
interviewed Random sampling technique and stratified was selected as the appropriate sampling
methods giving equal chances to the population. Data was coded and analyzed using the SPSS
20.0. Descriptive statistics was used to present results and outline the trends including data
description and tabulation. | en_US |
