Abstract: The purpose of the study is to investigate the factors affecting performance of vulnerable children projects with specific objectives, to establish how project planning, project financial resources, Project human resources and project monitoring & evaluation affect performance of vulnerable children projects in Lurambi constituency Kakamega County. The study applied stratified random sampling and descriptive survey design targeting a population of all the 12 orphans and vulnerable projects in Kakamega county comparing 120 employees. A total of 52 structured questionnaires were distributed to the eleven OVC projects. Questionnaire were used to collect primary data. Descriptive data analysis entailed counts, percentages, cross tabulations and measures of central tendencies. Results presented by pie-charts, bar graphs and tables. The study found out that Good Project planning determines the success of a project, Skilled human resource influences the success of a project, that regular and adequate budget allocation increases project success and finally that regular monitoring and feedback improves chances of project success as indicated by the mean scores of 3.29, 3.49, 4.00 and 3.32 respectively. Based on significance values, the study found out that project human resource significantly explains the project success as indicated by the significance value of 0.01. All together the four independent variables explain 70% of dependent variable. The study recommends that projects to succeed, good Project planning, skilled human resource and finally that regular monitoring & feedback are important.

Keywords: Project human resources, Project financial resources, project monitoring & evaluation, project planning, Project success, vulnerable children projects.

Title: Factors Affecting Project Performance of Vulnerable Children Programs in Lurambi Constituency of Kakamega County

Author: Alu Edith, Oteki Evans Biraori.

ISSN 2394-9694

International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences

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Abstract: The study was on education and organisational performance of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The objective of the study was to establish the nexus between education and organisational performance of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The study adopted the descriptive survey design using quantitative analysis in which data were collected through questionnaire from 60 respondents who were naval personnel. Six formations of the Nigerian Navy formed the population of this study. Data collected were analysed using statistical package for social science version 23.0, spearman Rank order coefficient tools were used for testing the hypothesis. The finding of the study was that education lead to operational efficiency of the Nigerian Navy. The study recommends among others that the Nigerian Armed Forces should institute a policy on knowledge sharing, strengthen military education and its training institutions. It is also recommended that further research on the subject or related matter should focus on using more of theories that are skewed towards the criterion variable, and attempt to find out the situation in the Nigerian Army and Nigerian Airforce.

Keywords: Education, Organizational Performance, Nigerian Armed Forces.

Title: Military Education and Organisational Performance of the Nigerian Armed Forces

Author: Ekpa, Ime Henry, Dr. M.D. Tamunomiebi

ISSN 2394-9694

International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences

Novelty Journals