Influence of Strategic Planning On Implementation of Constituency Development Funded Projects in Njoro Constituency, Nakuru County, Kenya

Abstract

The Njoro constituency fund caters for six wards namely Mau Narok, Mauche, Kihingo, Nesuit, Lare and Njoro. The CDF project implementation has had diverse challenges. For example, the auditor general noted that the failure to utilize budgeted funds during the year negatively impacted on the project implementations at the constituency level. This study sought to examine the impact of monitoring and evaluation, stakeholders’ participation, risk management and financial resources aspects. The study specific objectives included examination of influence on monitoring and evaluation, stakeholders’ participation, risk management and financial resources on the implementation of CDF project in Njoro Constituency, Nakuru County, Kenya. It was based on descriptive research design with the target population being all the project managers, committee members and community representatives that were involved in the ongoing CDF projects for the 2016/2017 financial year. Data collection was done using a questionnaire. Descriptive statistics that included means, standard deviations, and frequencies as well as inferential statistics such as multiple linear regressions and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were employed in data analysis. A unit increase in monitoring and evaluation, stakeholder participation, risk management, and financial resources each on its own with other variables kept constant would result in 0.096, 0.128, 0.021, and 0.357 increases in the implementation of CDF projects respectively. The conclusion of the study is that monitoring and evaluation, stakeholders’ participation, risk management, and financial resources positively influence the implementation of CDF projects. It hence recommended changes to the CDF management implementing policy so as to improve the monitoring and evaluation framework including enhancing the supervisory role of the Member of Parliament in project implementation. The study also recommended that stakeholder and community participation in identifying viable projects be enhanced so that the projects being implemented have impact to the community. It further recommended that sufficient amount of funds be allocated to projects, and the budgetary plans of the allocated funds include an appropriate estimate for purposes of examination of the project implementation.