AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INFLUENCE OF PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION ON PERFORMANCE OF SMALLHOLDER TEA FARMING PROJECT IN NYAMIRA COUNTY, KENYA
- PhD Candidate, Department of Management Sciences and Project Planning, University of Nairobi.
- Professor, Department of Management Sciences and Project Planning, University of Nairobi.
- Lecturer, Department of Management Sciences and Project Planning, University of Nairobi.
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The purpose of this study is to establish the inffuence of Participatory M&E on performance of smallholder tea farming projects. In this study participatory M&E refers to involving stakeholders in the entire project lifecycle. It also involves, stakeholder tea farming groups integration, group public participation, involvement in M&E activities, enhancing participatory community approaches and promoting social media cohesion which is a powerful tool on enhancing performance of smallholder tea farming projects.Participatory Rural Appraisal: visual methods, often to analyze before and after situations, through the use of community mapping, problem ranking, wealth ranking, seasonal anddailytimecharts,andother tools.BeneficiaryAssessment:conversational interviewing and focused group discussions on changes and impacts.The ANOVA results indicated that (F-statistics (1,369) =6.633 is significant at P value 0.010< 0.05 implying that the predictor co-efficient is at least not equal to zero and hence the regression model results in significantly better prediction of Performance of Smallholders Tea farming projects.
[S.M. Mesa, C.M. Rambo and A.S. Mulwa (2021); AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INFLUENCE OF PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION ON PERFORMANCE OF SMALLHOLDER TEA FARMING PROJECT IN NYAMIRA COUNTY, KENYA Int. J. of Adv. Res. 9 (Oct). 567-574] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, KENYA
Kenya
