Monitoring and evaluation practices and implementation of climate change projects in Kenya

Abstract

The projected climate change weather events such as increasing temperature and precipitation are anticipated to increase disruptions, damage and failure across land based, air and marine transportation systems. Road infrastructure is among the most affected by climate change because increased temperatures affect aging of roads resulting in brittle and cracked surfaces. Monitoring and Evaluation practices are important to inform infrastructure climate change projects implementation. This study focused on monitoring and evaluation practices on implementation of implementation of road infrastructure climate change projects in Kenya to support implementation of Climate Change projects in fulfillment of the Climate Change Act in Kenya. The study was informed by theory of change and systems theory. The study was guided by three objectives namely; to assess the influence of planning for M&E practices on implementation of road infrastructure climate change projects in Kenya, To investigate influence of M&E budgeting practices on implementation of road infrastructure climate change projects in Kenya and finally to determine influence of dissemination of M&E reports on implementation of road infrastructure climate change projects in Kenya. The study used descriptive survey design with mixed approaches. The study target population is 400 and a sample size of 196 determined using Morgan and Krechjie determination table of 1970. Unit of analysis is climate change projects which comprised senior planning officers, superintended engineers, stakeholders and environment and safeguards officers who were involved in the implementation of the study. Data was collected by use of a questionnaire and interview guide questions for qualitative study. Data was cleaned, coded and analyzed by use of SPSS version 25 for descriptive data and Nvivo plus 12 for qualitative data. Inferential statistics was run using regression method and all the null hypotheses were tested and rejected thus accepting the alternate hypotheses. There was weak correlation on the three objectives however there was influence on each to the dependent variable. The study recommends that other researchers to investigate on monitoring and evaluation process in order to compare with the practices of mounting and evaluation.