Abstract
Benefactor organizations have greatly funded livelihood projects and programs in Kilifi County. However, these projects grapple with sustainability. Some halt operations instantaneously the funding is withdrawn. The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of monitoring and evaluation (participation; tools; and timing and frequency) on the sustainability of donor-funded livelihood projects in Kilifi County, Kenya. The descriptive correlational research design was used with a sample of 170 from a population of 295 from three livelihood projects. Seven interviews and three focus group discussions were carried out. Standard deviations, standard error of means, arithmetic means, Pearson’s Product moment correlation, and linear regression were used. The perception of sustainability did not differ significantly with projects, gender, age, and marital status. However, perception differed based on the highest level of education and duration in the project. H0, r=0.458, p=0.000389<0.05 was rejected and concluded that monitoring and evaluation significantly influenced the sustainability of donor-funded livelihood projects. Participation in M&E and (p=0.000), frequency, and timing (p=0.024) had a significant while tools used in M&E (p=0.459) did have a significant influence on sustainability. This implies that corporate and individual knowledge of the project objectives, targets, and means of measuring project results were still critical in ensuring sustainability is attained. Simple templates of the logical framework should be used for the farmers to understand how inputs are converted into activities, outputs, outcomes, and goals. It is implied that the farmers had little knowledge of Likert items denoting tools in M&E. Therefore, simple and direct Likert items need to be chosen.
Highlights
Projects are often utilized as a conduit through which institutions attain their goals (PMI, 2004)
The model shows that an increase by one (1) unit of community participation in Monitoring and evaluation (M&E), tools used in M&E and frequency and timing in M&E would increase sustainability of Donor funded livelihood projects (DFLPs) by 0.25, 0.057 and 0.133 units respectively
In as much as the correlation of monitoring and evaluation and sustainability was moderately positive, participation in M&E, tools used in M&E and frequency and timing of M&E were examined further
Summary
Projects are often utilized as a conduit through which institutions attain their goals (PMI, 2004). They are seen as the ideal instruments of change in the society (Silvius & Schipper, 2014; Marcelino-Sadaba et al, 2015). Sustainability has enticed intense scholarly interest among academicians, researchers, development institutions and governments with between 5 and 10 articles published yearly in between 2009 and 2015 (Silvius & Schipper, 2014; Carvalho & Rabechini, 2017; Aarseth, 2017). There is an upturn of pressure and swelling sensitivity for organizations, donors and researchers to include sustainability issues in the projects (Marcelino-Sadaba et al, 2015). In this study the ability of projects to endure and regenerate benefits and continue implementation upon withdrawal of donor funding will be adapted
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