Governance Strategies and Performance of West Pokot County Government, Kenya

Abstract

The objectives of the study were: to determine the effect of participatory management as an aspect of governance on performance of West Pokot County Government; and to determine the effect of governance strategies on the performance of West Pokot County Government. The theories underpinning this study are: stewardship theory, dynamic capability theory in addition to stakeholder theory. Governance has been the pillar of many organizations especially business entities in ensuring good performance. Gaps realized from contextual, conceptual and empirical have led to various questions. Could it be that West Pokot County government is suffering from ineffective governance strategies to the effect that it has affected her performance? Could there be insufficient participatory management, lack of proper transparency, or could there be lack of adherence to the rule of law? It’s against this foundation that the researcher proposed to carry study on governance strategies and their effect on performance of West Pokot County Government. The review embraced a clear exploration plan which is descriptive survey research design. A target populace of 84 (eighty four) and census was used. Questionnaire was administered to the respondents in the County in a bid to collect primary data. Data was then subjected to inferential statistical analysis (correlation coefficient). From the descriptive analysis, the findings indicated that that participation of the stakeholders have averagely improved the performance of the county. Mean and standard deviation was used to determine the effect of participatory management on performance of county government. The study also indicated that there is significant relation between governance strategies and performance of West Pokot County Government, Kenya. The F- ratio represents the proportion of improvement in predicting that results from fitting the regression model, relative to the imprecision that subsists in the model. The F- ratio realized was 58.920 which was coincidental and was significant (P< .05). The study recommends the use governance strategies to improve performance of county governments.