EFFECT OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION PLANNING ON SUCCESS OF RURAL WATER CHLORINATION PROJECTS, A CASE OF CHLORINE DISPENSERS PROJECT IN WESTERN; KENYA

Project management is a practice that has been there for long time. It can be traced to the ancient use in constructing of Egyptian pyramids stand date. However, it only from 1950s project as field started being professionalized with massive by United States Navy war operations. Management found important ensuring projects are completed within right time, budget, scope and have impact stakeholders. Rural water chlorination provide access safe most vulnerable society. Monitoring Evaluation an component managing projects. This study established effect Planning on success Water Chlorination Projects Western Kenya. The adopted descriptive research survey design. target population was managers Stratified sampling Technique determination sample. Questionnaire used instrument primary data collection. Pilot done who were not part major western; Kenya, hence this enabled testing reliability validity instrument. inferential statistics analyzed SPSS software version 24, further; regression equation model developed test relationships between variables. results findings indicated influenced Success recommended County Governments embrace practices, since improves Chlorination. further studies same considering variables but different methodologies. Key words: Planning, Practices, CITATION: Wakoli, A. S., Kadima, M. J., & Miroga, J. (2022). Effect monitoring evaluation planning rural projects, case chlorine dispensers Strategic Journal Business Change Management, 9 (2), 424 – 443.