| dc.description.abstract | Kenya has seen a significant rise in infrastructure developments in the recent past,
especially in the fields of real estate development and many house construction projects
have failed to achieve project success due to increase in risk and uncertainty. The
objective of this study was to establish the factors affecting effectiveness of risk
management in housing construction projects in Kenya, a case of Kibera Slum Upgrading
Housing Scheme. The research objectives were; to determine the extent to which level of
top management support affect effectiveness of risk management in housing construction
projects, to establish the extent to which competence of project team affect effectiveness
of risk management in housing construction projects, to examine the extent to which
project funding affect effectiveness of risk management in housing construction projects
and to establish the extent to which project risk management affect effectiveness of risk
management in housing construction projects. To achieve study objective, descriptive
survey design was adopted. This research design involved gathering data that described
events and then organized, tabulated, depicted, and described the data. The population of
the study for this study was five institutions that manage the Kibera Upgrading Housing
Scheme which include Ministry of land, provisional administration, community
organizations, religious group and KENSUP. Fisher formula was used to select the study
sample size of 116 from a target population of 164. The primary data for this study was
collected using both closed and open ended structured questionnaires. The collected data
was well examined and checked for completeness and comprehensibility. The data was
then summarized, coded and tabulated. Descriptive statistics such as means, standard
deviation and frequency distribution were used to analyze the data. Data presentation was
done by frequency tables for ease of understanding and interpretations. Inferential
statistics such as regression and correlation analysis were used to determine the
relationship between effectiveness of risk management and factors that affect risk
management effectiveness in housing sector. The study established that low level of top
management support where project management failed to develop project procedures
from initiation stage, install training programs, establish project management office and
support quality management affected the effectiveness of risk management in Kibera
Housing Scheme by a factor of 0.683 and p value of 0.03. Incompetent project team
members who did not understand project risk management process affected effective risk
management by a factor of 0.517 and p value of 0.04,lack of funding which did not link
to Gantt chart of the project affected the effectiveness of risk management by a factor of
0.468 and p value of 0.02 and lack of project risk planning where there was no proper
risk identification, assessment, prioritization, mitigation and control affected
effectiveness of risk management by a factor of 0.691 and p value of 0.01 in Kibera
Housing Scheme.The study recommends that top management should be committed to
inclusive and transparent risk management, project team should be trained in risk
management and administrative skills, project funding should be linked to the Gantt chart
and proper project risk planning should be done to enable structured and systematic risk
management in construction projects. | en_US |
