The Influence of Public Awareness on the Implementation of County Government Development Projects in Turkana North Sub-County Kenya

Lokwar A. Francis; Evans Otieno; Miriti Gervasio

doi:10.37284/eajes.7.3.2090

Lokwar A. Francis Turkana University College
Evans Otieno, PhD Turkana University College
Miriti Gervasio, PhD Turkana University College

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37284/eajes.7.3.2090

Keywords: Public Awareness, County Government Funded Projects, County Governments, Project Implementation

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Abstract

The main focus of this paper was to examine the influence of public awareness on the Implementation of County Government Development Projects in Turkana North Sub County, Kenya. The paper was anchored on the civic voluntarism theory. The study adopted A descriptive research design, which targeted 30,923 people. A sample of 384 public members was arrived at using the Miller & Brewer formula, and stratified randomly was employed. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire. Supervisions, intensive literature review, and pre-testing validated the research instruments. The reliability of the instruments was further verified by a pilot study using 10% of the study’s sample. The outcome of the pilot study revealed an internal consistency of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.8476. this coefficient was considered ideal since it was above the threshold of 0.7. Data were analyzed descriptively using SPSS and presented in percentages, frequencies, and tables. The data analysis findings established a significant positive relationship between public awareness and the implementation of funded development projects in Turkana North sub-county, Kenya (R=0.749). Overall, public awareness influenced the implementation of funded development projects by 88.7% (R2 = 88.7%). Therefore, the study recommends that it is vital for the firms assigned to implementing development projects to consider thoroughly fostering public awareness in any project implementation. This enhances project satisfaction, project completion on time, and completion at scheduled cost. These study findings may benefit policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in forming the basis for new knowledge by identifying the knowledge gap

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