Effects of Accountability on Public Policy Implementation in Marsabit County Government

Abstract

Socioeconomic development metrics such as economic growth rates, unemployment levels, corruption levels, and poverty rates in Kenya do not correlate with the country's comprehensive policy framework. It seems that policy design and execution aren't going hand in hand. This has been evidenced in the counties report given by the controller of budgets and continued impeachments of county governors due to poor governance cited by the various county assemblies. This study assessed the effects of accountability on implementation of public policy in Marsabit County, Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive research design which helped to describe governance and public policy implementation in Marsabit County. The study targeted 69158 respondents from various urban centres in Marsabit County with a sample size of 384 respondents selected using stratification and simple random sampling and data collect used questionnaire as the instrument. The data were coded and analyzed using SSP. Descriptive and inferential statistics data analysis results were used to reveal the influence of, accountability on policy implementation in public sector in Kenya. The results indicate that the overall model was satisfactory. This means that items on Accountability explain 28.6% of the variations in public policy implementation in the Marsabit county government. It was concluded that accountability practices were major determinants of public policy implementation and that they were the major governance factors that mostly affect effective implementation of policy in the county government. The study recommendations included; that county government should adopt good governance practices in order to improve on policy implementation in their counties.