Factors influencing successful implementation of hunger safety net programme in the vulnerable livelihoods in northern Kenya: a case of Wajir county

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to undertake and investigation of factors affecting the success of Hunger Safety Net Programme in the Vulnerable Livelihoods in Northern Kenya, in Wajir County. The purpose of this study is four objectives, first the study will seek to find the effects of social Protection Rights on successful implementation of Hunger Safety Net Programme in the Vulnerable Livelihoods, and secondly the study will seek to find out the effects of cash transfers services on successful implementation of Hunger Safety Net Programme in the Vulnerable Livelihoods. Thirdly this study will also seek to find out the effects of Monitoring and evaluation on successful implementation of Hunger Safety Net Programme in the Vulnerable Livelihoods. Finally, the study will seek to find out the effects of administration on successful implementation of Hunger Safety Net Programme in the Vulnerable Livelihoods in Northern Kenya, in Wajir County. This study employed the use of descriptive survey design which is appropriate to collect data from both quantitative and qualitative data as intended in this case. The study targeted five organizations namely; Oxfam Great Britain, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Oxford Policy Management (OPM), Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSD-Kenya) in collaboration with Equity Bank, National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) and Helpage International in Kenya that operate in Northern Eastern Kenya where a sample size of 40 respondents from the two institutions was extracted. This study collected primary data where a semi-structured questionnaire comprising both open-ended and close-ended questions was used to collect data. Data from questionnaires was summarized, edited, coded, tabulated and analyzed. Data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21, due to its ability to predict for identifying groups such as factor analysis, descriptive statistics, cross tabulation, frequencies, as well as bivariate statistics such as Means, ANOVA and Correlation tests. The study found out that hunger safety in Wajir County generally is the main challenges facing rural households. This need immediate and long term interventions and policies should be aligned with and diverse measures to alleviate the problem. The study recommends that pay points should be sufficiently accessible to recipients, in particular those that have difficulties in travelling and the payment mechanism should seek to be linked to savings accounts for recipients so that they can retain funds in their accounts, if they desire, and have greater freedom to withdraw funds.