Gender Sensitivity and Performance of County Government Selected Projects in Uasin Gishu County

Abstract

On the global scene, Women project leadership is of great interest to researchers in Africa and the entire world. Considerably, both in developed and developing economies, there have been less women given chance for leadership duties. There is a great need for such economies to involve women as leaders in various organizations especially in public organizations. Most scholars have done studies on the capabilities of women being leaders and results and the response has been positive though some scholars find the positivity insignificant that results into doubt of where the truth can emanate from. Hence the scenario gives rise to have study on the engendered practice and performance on County governments. The purpose of the study was to examine the influence of gender sensitivity on performance of County Government projects in Uasin Gishu County. This study applied descriptive survey research design. The study used a structured questionnaire on collection of primary data from the County Government Projects of Uasin Gishu County; Kenya. Pilot study was done on the County Government of Kakamega; Kenya, hence this enabled for testing of the reliability and validity of the research instrument. The study descriptive and inferential statistics was analyzed by use of SPSS software version 24, further; a regression equation model was developed to test the relationships between the variables. The results of the findings indicated Engendered Leadership Practices influenced Performance of the County Government of Uasin Gishu; Kenya. In terms of influence and significance; Gender Sensitivity Practice had significance influence on Performance. The study recommended for County Governments to embrace the use of Gender Sensitivity Practice since it improves the Performance. The study recommended for further studies on the same considering same variables but different methodologies.