DETERMINANTS OF COMPLETION OF NON GOVERNMENTAL HEALTH PROJECTS IN NAIROBI COUNTY
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This study sought to determine the determinants of completion of Non-governmental health projects. The specific objectives were to establish the extent to which the level of funding determines completion of non-governmental health projects in Nairobi county, to assess the extent to which stakeholder‘s participation determines completion of non-governmental health projects in Nairobi County and to explore the extent to which effective planning determines the completion of non- government health projects in Nairobi County.
The study adopted the survey research design and the target population was all the 17 NGOs under DFID in Kenya. Data was collected by use of a questionnaire and the analysed with the aid of SPPS, whilst the model chosen was linear regression. The study found out that organization should consider the factors that affect the process like efficiency of procurement process of the project facilities, ensuring total stakeholders’ participation, all the resource that are relevant to the project facilitation process should be readily available and by doing that the project team will be in a position to launch the project after the successful completion of the project. This applies to all development sectors and further, the study suggested that more study be done to exploit the influence of key determinants on the completion of the project on the public sector prone to the problem of launching of projects and later experiencing unnecessary delays in commencing these kind of the projects and how the project financing should be done to ensure that the economy is not affected immensely, due to incomplete projects with huge cost implications in terms of increasing the tax burden to the public, which has been experienced by various countries not only in Africa but globally as well. The study recommended that the planning team should consider resource planning to avoid abandoning projects midway. Project need to build in flexibility in implementation and have a warning system when things are not going as per plan so that corrective action is taken. Resource mobilization and fundraising ought to be diversified so that there is a committed and varied pool of funds to enable execution of health projects. Implementing organizations should also get institutional support from Government and donors so that they build local capacity to implement the projects and also build financial, social and organizational sustainability. Local NGOs should strengthen the management by ensuring that qualified and experienced personnel who have an experience of working in the NGO world are given management positions.
Key Words: Project Funding, Stakeholder‘s Participation, Planning, Non- Government Health Projects
CITATION: Kirika, H. N., Juma, D. (2019). Determinants of completion of non-governmental health projects in Nairobi County. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 6 (4), 1248– 1261
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