FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SUCCESS OF COUNTY WATER PROJECTS A CASE OF KIAMBU COUNTY
Abstract
Success of county water projects comprises all organized activities and planning regarding water resources development, conservation, protection and control from water adverse effects. Success of county water projects includes aspects such as water uses (inherent values, domestic needs, food security, energy supply, transportation and recreation), conservation, assessment, protection, participation and governance. This implies that management of water resources consists in matching water supply and water demand, and reducing environmental damage caused by water, or to waters and the bodies of water. The general objective of the study is to establish factors influencing the success of county water projects a case of Kiambu County. Specific variables were; project water quality and project stakeholder participation on success of county water projects a case of Kiambu County. The study adopted descriptive research design which determined and reported the way things were. Stratification was used to divide the population into different strata i.e. Project Managers, Project Engineers and Project Architectures so as to draw randomly a predetermined number of units. The study used respondents working in the 9 water companies in Kiambu County. The collected data was coded into the Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 because of its ability to analyze data easily and accurately. This result indicated that the two independent variables notably; project water quality and project stakeholder participation were significant in contributing to success of county water projects. The coefficient of determination indicated that 94.9% of the variation on success of county water projects was influenced by independent variables project water quality and project stakeholder participation. This implies that there existed a strong positive relationship between independent variables and success of county water projects.
Key Words: Project Water Quality, Stakeholder Participation, Kiambu County
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Ackermann, F. and Eden, C. (2011). Stakeholders Matter: Techniques for Their Identification and Management. Department of Management Science Research Paper No 2011/20, Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow.
Armeli, S., Eisenberger, R., Fasolo, P., & Lynch, P. (2012). Perceived organizational support and police performance: The moderating influence of socio emotional needs. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83, 288-297.
Becker, B. (2010). The Strategic Impact of HR. Harvard Business School
Publishing, Balanced Scorecard, May – June 2001.
Biswas, A. K., Varis, O., & Tortajada, C (eds). (2013). Integrated Water Resources Management in South and Southeast Asia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Brenda, S., & Cesar, C. (2011). Measuring Results in Community Development: An exploration of participation and network capacity domains. The Calgary Foundation, United Way and Alexandria Community Health Center, Canada.
Carmines, E. G., & Zeller, R. A. (2009). Reliability and validity assessment (Vol. 17). Sage publications.
Chakravarthy, B.S., White, R.E. (2011), Strategy process: forming, implementing and changing strategies, in Pettigrew, A., Thomas, H., Whittington, R. (Eds), Handbook of Strategy and Management, Sage Publications, London,
Chartres, C. and Varma, S., (2010). Out of water. From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World’s Water Problems USA: FT Press.
Chikati, J. (2009). Project Cycle Management: An Integrated Approach and Logical. Pearson. New Delhi.
Cooper and Schindler (2011), Research design: qualitative and quantitative approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage.
Creswell, J. W. (2012). Educational research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative approaches to research. New Jersey: Merrill/Pearson
Education.
Djordjevic, B. (2009). Cybernetics in Water Resources Management. Book Crafters, Inc., Chelsea, Michigan, USA.
Donaldson, T. and Preston, L. E. (2011). The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Education.
DeSanctis, G., & Poole, M. S. (2009). Capturing the Complexity in Advanced Technology Use: Adaptive Structuration Theory.Organization Science ,5 (2), 121-147. INFORMS. doi:10.1287/orsc.5.2.121.
Eisenberger, R., (2012). Perceived supervisor support: Contributions to perceived organizational support and employee retention. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 565-573
Fisher, A., Laing, J., and Stoeckel, J. (2013). Guidelines for overcoming design problems in family planning operations research. Mediline. 16 (2): 100 – 105.
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and Jim Kundell., (2014). Water Profile of Kenya, in: Cutler J. Cleveland (eds.) Encyclopedia of Earth Washington, DC: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council Science and the Environment.
Freeman, R. E. (2014). Strategic management: A stakeholder approach. Boston: Pitman.
Freeman, R.E., and Phillips, R. A. (2012). Business Ethics Quarterly, 12(3), 331-349.
Fulmer, Jeffrey (2009). What in the world is infrastructure? PEI Infrastructure Investor (July/August): 30–32.
Fugar, F.D. and Agyakwah-Baah, A.B. (2010) Delays in building construction projects in Ghana. Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, VOL. 10(1/2), pp. 103–116
GOK (2012) National water policy.
Gibson, K. (2009). The moral basis of stakeholder theory. Journal of Business Ethics, 26(3), 245– 257.
Gray, H., and Alde, M., (2013). Are Rural–Urban Migration and Sustainable Development Compatible in Mountain Systems Mountain Research and Development Vol 27(2), pp 119–123.
Hirji, R., Johnson, P., Maro, P., & Matiza, T. (eds). (2012). Defining and Mainstreaming Environmental Sustainability in Water Resources Management in Southern Africa. SADC, IUCN, SARDC, World Bank: Maseru /Harare /Washington DC.
Hawking, S. (2010). "The Illustrated a Brief History of Time" (Updated and expanded ed.). New York: Bantam Books.
Hartman, M., (2010) the National Health Expenditure Accounts Team. Health spending growth at a historic low in 2008. Health Affairs, 29, 147–155.
Hoekstra, A., and Chapagain, A., (2009) Water footprints of nations: water use by people as a function of their consumption pattern. Water Resource Management, 21, pp. 35-48.
Houghteling, M. (2009). Systems theory and effective Leadership. Organizational Development Interventions II Bev Scott Consulting.
Ioulia, T., Demith, S., & Hubert, P. (2008). River Basins: From Hydrological Science to Water Management. The International Association of Hydrological Science (IAHS), Paris, France.
Korir, E. J. & Were, S. (2014). Factors affecting the performance of construction firms’ in government ministries in Kenya: A case of Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. International Journal of Innovative Social Sciences & Humanities Research Vol. 2 (2) pp.56-74.
Kothari, C. R. (2008). Research methodology. Methods and techniques. New Delhi. New Age International (P) Limited Publishers.
Kumar, D. (2013). Infrastructure in India. ICFAI Journal of Infrastructure. Availablehttp://129.3.20.41/eps/urb/papers/0506/0506002.pdf. Accessed on March 4, 2012.
Mahamid, I. & Bruland, A. 2010.Analysis of cost diverge in road construction projects. Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, 9-12 June 2010, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
McElroy, B., & Mills, C. (2008). Managing Stakeholders. Hampshire: Gower publishing limited.
Miles, M. and Huberman, M., (2014), "Qualitative data analysis”, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
Mogaka, H.; Gichere. S.; Richard D.; and Rafik Hirji (2011). Climate Variability and Water Resources Degradation in Kenya: Improving Water Resources Development and Management (Washington, DC: The World Bank, World Bank Working Paper, No. 69).
Mugenda, O.M and Mugenda, A.G (2003) Research Methods, Quantitative & Qualitative Approaches, Acts Press, Nairobi.
Mugenda, O.M., & Mugenda, A.G. (2008). Research Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, Nairobi: Acts Press.
Ngechu, M. (2014). Understanding the research process and methods. An introduction. Nairobi.
Ofwat., (2011) Security of supply, leakage and the efficient use of water: 2013/6 report, UK.
Onjala. J. O. (2012), Good Intentions, Structural Pitfalls: Early Lessons from Urban Water Commercialization Attempts in Kenya, CDR Working Paper 02.2, Denmark
Onjala. J. O. (2012), Managing Water Scarcity in Kenya: Industrial Response to Tariffs and Regulatory Enforcement, Ph.D. Dissertation, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Orodho, A.J. (2010). Essentials of Eduacational and Social Sciences Research Methods: Nairobi: Masola Publishers.
Orodho, A.J. (2008). Essentials of Eduacational and Social Sciences Research Methods: Nairobi: Masola Publishers.
Ramakrishnan, K 2009, ‘Turnover of board of directors in UAE—a positive or negative sign?’, Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1527141.
Reichel, M. and Ramey, M. A. (Eds.), (2011), "Conceptual frameworks for bibliographic education: Theory to practice. “Libraries Unlimited Inc., Littleton Colorado.
Republic of Kenya. (2008c). Water Resources Management Rules. Government Printer, Nairobi, Kenya.
Republic of Kenya. (2011). Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. Economic Survey 2011. Nairobi Government printer.
Rickards, T. & Moger, S. (2013) “Creative leadership processes in project team development: An alternative to Tuckman’s stage model”, British Journal of Management, Vol 11, pp273-283.
Robinson, M.Q. (2009). Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods. ThousandOaks, California:
Schmidt, W.P., Crain cross, S. (2008) Household Water Quality in Poor Populations: Is
Smakhtin, V., Revenga, C., and Döll, P., (2014) Taking into account environmental water requirements in global-scale water resources assessments. Comprehensive Assessment Research Report 2. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Comprehensive Assessment Secretariate.
Schmidt, W.P., Craincross, S. (2008) Household Water Quality in Poor Populations: Is There Enough Evidence for Scaling up Now? Environmental Science & Technology.
Sobsey, M.D. (2012) Managing Water in the Home: Accelerated Health Gains from
Improved Water Supply, (WHO/SDE/WSH/02.07); The World Health Organization:
Geneva Sullivan, A. and Sheffrin, M. S. (2003). Economics: Principles in action. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Tilbury, D., & Wortman, D. (2014). Engaging people in sustainability. Commission on Education and Communication (CEC). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Tshmanga, R. M. (2010). Traditional Systems of Water and Water Resources Management along the Upper Congo River. Fountain Publishers, Kampala, Uganda.
UNDP. (2010). Beyond Scarcity: Power Poverty and Global Crisis. The United Nations Human Development Report. New York: The United Nations Department of Public Information
UNESCO. (2011). World Water Assessment Programme. Water for People; Water for Life: The United Nations World Water Development Report. Oxford, New York.
UNICEF (2008). Progress in Drinking Water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation.
UNICEF (2014). Progress in Drinking Water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation.
Uhl-Bien, M. & Pillai, R. (2007). The romance of leadership and the social construction of followership. In B. Shamir, R. Pillai, M. Bligh & M. Uhl-Bien (Eds.), Follower-centered perspective on leadership (pp. 187-209).
Watt, A. (2013), Project Management Report.
Watson, T., Osborne-Brown, S., Longhurst, M. (2002). Issues Negotiation – investing in
stakeholders. Corporate Communications, 7 (1), 54–61.
Wheatley, M. J. (2009). Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain time. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
World Bank. (2010). Participation in practice: The Experience of the World Bank and Other Stakeholders. The World Bank, Washington DC.
World Bank (2010). Water Supply & Sanitation Report.
World Health Organization (2011) Project Performance: project performance issues. Report v.washington.USA.
Yee-Chin, L. C. (2014). Performance Measurement and Adoption of Balanced Scorecards. A Survey of Municipal Governments in the USA and Canada. The International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol 17, No 3, pp 204 – 221.
Zwikael, O., Unger-Aviram, E., (2010). HRM in project groups: the effect of project duration on team development effectiveness. International Journal of Project Management 28, 413–421.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.61426/sjbcm.v3i4.376
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
PAST ISSUES:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.