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VOL. 11, ISSUE 4 (2024)
Influence of community participation on community based water projects for rural community development in Mwingi, Kenya
Authors
Benjamin Karume
Abstract
In rural community development, community
participation is a vital element that ensures and speeds the socio-economic
transformation of people and rural areas. Although, over the years, community
participation has received little attention from the governments in developing
countries, NGOs, United Nations and CBOs have actively advocated and supported
community participation, especially in development planning and developing
poverty alleviation strategies. This study examined influence of community
participation of CBOs on rural community development in Mwingi, Kenya. The
study adopted a mixed-method research design. The target population of this
study comprised of 54 registered water CBOs appearing on the CBO register of
District Development Officer (DDO), Mwingi, Kenya. It adopted stratified random
sampling and purposive sampling to include a sample of 327 respondents. The
data collection instrument adopted were questionnaire surveys and interviews to
acquire quantitative and qualitative data. Descriptive statistics in the form
of frequencies, percentages, mean, standard deviation and correlation were
adopted to analyze quantitative data. Inferential statistics employed simple
linear regression to test the strength of the relationship between the
variables based on observed data and to predict the value of the dependent
variable based on the independent variable. This study established that
community participation in community based water projects had a significant
influence on the success of these projects with R=0.549, R2=0.301,
β=4.704, t=6.686, F (1,325) = 41.714, p<0.05. These results
implied that community participation in community based water projects had a
positive significant influence on the implementation of rural community
development in Mwingi. The study concluded that the role of community
participation in community development water projects had positively influenced
the implementation of rural community development in Mwingi, Kitui County,
Kenya.
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Pages:55-62
How to cite this article:
Benjamin Karume "Influence of community participation on community based water projects for rural community development in Mwingi, Kenya". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, Vol 11, Issue 4, 2024, Pages 55-62
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