Abstract
This study investigates the influence of income-generating activities on the effective management of charitable children institutions (CCIs) with a particular focus on CCIs in Nakuru Town East Sub County, Kenya. The study was guided by the resource-based theory. The study adopted a mixed-method approach and deployed the descriptive research design to capture data from a target population of 45 respondents comprising of 39 CCI staff (both management and subordinate) and 6 key informants. A complete census was conducted on all the respondents and purposive sampling was utilized to identify key informants. Data from the CCI staff was collected using questionnaires while data from key informants was collected using discussion guides. A pilot study was conducted at Tumaini Bethany and Holy Family children in Nakuru Town West Sub-County to assess the validity and reliability of the instruments. Data were analyzed using the descriptive statistics with the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software (SPSS) and the thematic content analysis technique. The findings from the study showed that income-generating activities had an influence on the effective management of CCIs. The study concluded that effective management of CCIs is shaped by the presence of income-generating activities in CCI, type of income-generating activities, and the amount of income generated by the activity in which the CCI is engaged. The study recommended that CCIs should develop income-generating activities in their institutional plans to mitigate shocks that occur when there is little funding from external partners.
Highlights
Push factors such as the death of parent/s, family separation and poverty expose orphaned and vulnerable children to the risk of exploitation and violence (Petrowski, Cappa & Gross, 2017)
Some questionnaire was not returned to the researcher while one of the key informants failed to avail himself for the interview
About 11.4% of the respondents had worked at a charitable children institutions (CCIs) for a period of one year and below, while the majority, 74.3%, had worked at a CCI for a period of between two to four years and 14.3% of the respondents indicated that they had worked at a CCI for five years and above
Summary
Push factors such as the death of parent/s, family separation and poverty expose orphaned and vulnerable children to the risk of exploitation and violence (Petrowski, Cappa & Gross, 2017). Charitable children institutions are options of last resort that offer orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) care and protection in circumstances when family-based care options fail Given their importance, management of CCIs like any other organization is integral given their importance in safeguarding children rights. A study by Pryce, Jones, Wildman, Thomas, Okrzesik, and Kaufka-Walts (2016) reported that over 5 million children in Ethiopia are not supported under family-based care options because families are unable to support them due to extreme poverty and/or HIV/AIDS. Majority of these children end up in CCIs managed by varying stakeholders. This study sought to investigate the income-generating activities of the CCIs and how the impact the effective management of the institutions
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