| dc.description.abstract | The prevalence of HIV and AIDS in Kenya remains a matter of great concern
to the Kenyan people especially the policy makers. The Government of Kenya has
initiated a number of measures to curb the epidemic since it was declared a national
disaster in the year 1999. In an effort to implement prevention, care and treatment,
mitigation of social economic impact of HIV and AIDS, the National AIDS Control
Council was established in 2000 to spear head the fight against HIV and AIDS and to
coordinate a multi sectoral response bringing together Government and non
Government actors like the Community Based Organisation hereby referred to as
CBOs. The study aimed at establishing factors influencing Intra Group conflicts
among HIV and AIDS CBOs in Nyeri Town Constituency, Nyeri County. To this end,
the study scrutinized the influence of how competition of monetary resources,
communication, incompatibility of goals and power struggle result to intra group
conflict. Descriptive research design was adopted with systematic random sampling
method applied when analysing the target population. Structured and unstructured
design Questionnaires were developed and used for data collection. The data that was
gathered was analysed using SPSS package. The target population of the study was
sixty CBOs domiciled in Nyeri Town Constituency. The study established that HIV
needs far outweigh available resources, there is selective release of information to
CBO members by the CBO leaders, CBOs priorities are in conflict with non CBO
members, CBO members do undermine their leaders decisions, CBOs share
documents freely, there is adherence to work plans and proposals and there is
adequate consultations when key decisions are made. This study has recommended on
need to capacity build CBOs on leadership and management and this recommendation
should be taken up by NACC as the primary Government body mandated to capacity
build CBOs. The study recommends the need for further research to be done on
whose priorities CBOs respond to when implementing HIV and AIDS activities since
community members priorities and group members priorities do not agree as the study
found out. There is need for a study on leadership and factors influencing high
leadership turnover among CBOs | en_US |
