THE INFLUENCE OF HUMAN RESOURCE ALLOCATION ON PERFORMANCE OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM OF CHILD PROTECTION PROJECTS AT WORLD VISION, KENYA

Abstract

There is low utilization of the progress reports from monitoring and evaluation system of the
child protection projects at World Vision Kenya. More specifically, less than 10% of the
monitoring and evaluation progress reports generated periodically is utilized by the stakeholders.
About 40% of the progress reports at World Vision Kenya are not prepared within the
established costs, creating cost overruns within the monitoring and evaluationfunction at World
Vision Kenya. The available human resource limitations have comprised the quality and
timeliness of the progress reports with regard to child protection projects at World Vision,
Kenya. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the influence of human resource allocation on
performance of monitoring and evaluation system of child protection projects at World Vision,
Kenya. A descriptive design was adopted targeting 9 child protection projects by World Vision
Kenya as the unit of analysis and 220 staff from World Vision Kenya at its head quarter in
Nairobi as the unit of observation. The sample size was 141 participants. Primary data was
collected through questionnaire that was pilot tested among 10 respondents from Save-theChildren. Content and construct validity were adopted while Cronbach Alpha was used to
establish reliability. The collected data was processed as aided by SPSS tool supported by
descriptive frequencies and percentages) and inferential statistics (regression analysis). It was
established that human resource allocation was practiced at World Vision Kenya and
significantly contributed towards performance of the M&E system of the child protection
projects. The study concludes that human resources are critical when it comes to performance of
M&E system in a project organization. The study recommends that the project managers of the
child project projects at WVK should ensure that the M&E teams have relevant diversity in
terms of gender and age to effectively dispense their duties.