PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND PERFORMANCE OF DONOR FUNDED HEALTH PROJECTS IN KENYA
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Donor funded projects are of great interest to the government, civil society organizations and the beneficiaries. Health projects are among the highly funded projects by governments and donors. The general objective of the study was to examine the effect of risk management on performance of donor funded health projects in Kenya. The study was based on Enterprise Risk Management theory and correlational research design. The target population of the study was 44 project managers, 115 project officers, 81 project monitoring & evaluation officers, and 68 project finance managers. Census method was used to enumerate the entire population. Data was then collected using questionnaires. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis, leveraging SPSS. The data was then presented in statistical tables. All ethical considerations were strictly observed. Findings showed that project risk management has significant effect on performance of donor funded projects in Kenya (β1=0.618, p value= 0.000). The health project managers should reconsider instituting risk management processes that must be followed before project execution, to see how it affects the performance of their projects. Project managers and leaders must be encouraged to embrace project risk management before projects are started to enable them to identify possible risk events likely to occur in order to institute corrective response strategies to reduce the severity of the risk, should they occur during the course of the project.
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