DETERMINANTS OF SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY IN URBAN RENEWAL PROJECTS IN NAIROBI COUNTY, KENYA
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Project sustainability on urban renewal projects is an issue in Kenya. Nairobi is the second largest city in East Africa, accommodates more than one-third of Kenya’s total number of urban dwellers. The impacts of continued rapid growth in Nairobi Include: acute housing shortages, traffic congestion and pollution. The general objective of the study was to establish the determinants of social sustainability in urban renewal projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The study was guided by two specific objectives: To determine how stakeholders’ participation affect social sustainability in urban renewal projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya and to establish how project management skills influence social sustainability in urban renewal projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya. It was notable that there existed a strong positive relationship between the independent variables and dependent variable. This implied that there was still possibility of improving the model fit by adding another factor influencing the dependent variable to the model. Based on the study findings, the study concluded that sustainability in urban renewal projects was affected by stakeholder participation followed by project management skills. The study contributed the body of knowledge by examining the determinants of sustainability in urban renewal projects in Kenya is greatly affected by stakeholder participation and project management skills. The study contributes to the existing literature in the field of project management by elaborating exiting theories, models and empirical studies to improve sustainability in urban renewal projects in Kenya. The study was a milestone for further research in the field of sustainability in urban renewal projects in Africa and particularly in Kenya. The findings demonstrated the important factors to sustainability in urban renewal projects to include; stakeholder participation and project management skills. The current study should therefore be expanded further in future in order to determine the effect of project legal framework on sustainability in urban renewal projects. Existing literature indicates that as a future avenue of research, there is need to undertake similar research in other areas in Kenya for the generalization of the study findings.
Key Words: Stakeholders’ Participation, Project management Skills, Social Sustainability
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