| dc.description.abstract | The study sought to address the Factors Influencing Implementation of NonGovernmental
Partnership of Save the Children and Ministry of Health project in Wajir
East Sub-County, Kenya. The project implementation process is complex, usually
requiring simultaneous attention to a wide variety of human, budgetary, and technical
variables. The complex and demanding experience of project implementation has
triggered most of the Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to adopt and engage
partners to assist in project implementation. Nevertheless, a challenge on effective
project implementation still exists and more so in a more eminent levels. This therefore
prompted this study in order to investigate the partner‟s financial resources and
experience in implementation of such Non Governmental Organizations programmes,
partners own capacity to coordinate and organize, partners capacity in accountability
and transparency and whether there are internal governance structures of local Civil
Society Organizations partners to ensure that they meet relevant standards, a
precondition of their being able to legitimately implement projects in Wajir East SubCounty.
A descriptive research design was used in the study and census sampling
method was used to get the population. The study targeted a population of 298 persons,
which included 260 staff from Ministry of Health and 38 staff members from Save the
Children project. The study used all staff from Save the Children and Ministry of
Health as respondents. Questionnaires were used as data collection instruments. A pilot
test was carried out to ensure reliability of the instruments. The collected data was
analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. A qualitative and
quantitative methods were used for data analysis and findings were presented using
Tables. The study found that 79% of the respondents believed that Ministry of Health
have adequate financial resources and experience to act as a partner on Save the
Children project implementation. 68% of the respondents believed that Save the
Children offers capacity building for the Ministry of Health. This meant that training
and capacity building be done by the Save the Children on behalf of the MoH. The
analysis indicated from 84% of the respondents that Ministry of Health has tried to
enhance and embrace the accountability and transparency policy. The study found from
90% of the respondents that Ministry of Health has got internal governance structures
that guide its operation. The study concluded that there is governance structure that
guides the Ministry of Health. The study concludes that financial power and experience
as an implementing partner are key to the success of the contract as a partner that the
Organizations need to be accountable to many different sets of stakeholders which,
separately and collectively, play an integral part in their operations and that the impacts
of governance structure in any organization are very high. There is however proper
guidance of the governance structure to ensure that the governance does not interfere
with the proper management of the NGO or its operations. It is recommended that
partners in project implementation be vetted on their financial capability; that NGOs
should build the coordination and management of the capacity of their entire
organization; that Ministry of Health has get all trained staff on coordination and
management; that partners themselves should be tasked with the responsibility of
ensuring accountability and transparency, and subject their accounts and books of
accounts to both internal and external auditors to sustain accountability and that for the
Ministry of Health to work properly as an implementing partner for the Save the
Children there need be proper governing structure to guide the operations. The study
was of great benefit to the donors, the non-governmental organizations, the project
implementation partners and the beneficiaries. | en_US |
