PROJECT APPRAISAL PRACTICES AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HEALTH SECTOR PROJECTS IN THE COUNTY GOVERNMENTS OF KENYA
Dominic Nyambane Nyamachere - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
Prof. Patrick Karanja Ngugi - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
Dr. Samson Nyang’au - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
Dr. Yusuf Muchelule - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
ABSTRACT
Effective project appraisal practices are essential considerations in enabling the project implementers to overcome the hindrances to successful project implementation. In Kenya, the county governments have attempted to embrace project appraisal practices with a view to enhancing the successful implementation of the health sector projects. However, studies delineating the perceived association between project appraisal practices and successful project implementation are relatively inadequate. Owing to this inadequacy, the study examined the relationship between project appraisal practices and the successful project implementation of the health sector projects as moderated by project complexity in the county governments in Kenya. The study adopted the correlational research design and targeted 3,752 health sector projects actively being implemented across the 47 county governments in Kenya. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select a sample of 354 health sector projects. Quantitative data was collected from the sampled project managers using the structured questionnaires. The descriptive results indicated that project appraisal practices were related to the successful implementation of the health sector projects in the county governments in Kenya. The study concludes that 48.7% of the variance in the successful implementation of the health sector projects was explained by project appraisal practices. The study also concluded that project complexity significantly moderated the relationship between project appraisal practices and the successful implementation of the health sector projects in the county governments in Kenya.