Abstract:
Water resources projects are essential to the population
of Kwale County as well as being the pillar that support most
projects in agriculture and fisheries sectors. In this study, the role
of leaders such as coordination, change agent, conflict resolution
and monitoring were analysed, and the findings showed how the
leader’s roles influenced performance of projects and ultimately
dictate the success of these projects. From the study, it was
important for leaders to optimize performance measurement on
projects so as to provide the basis for assessing how well projects
progressed toward the planned and achieve targeted objectives.
The study was conducted through a descriptive design .The target
population for the study constituted 21 water resources projects
that had a total population of 190 participants. The sample frame
was 62 as the sample size which was 30% of the total population.
The instrument for primary data collection was a structured
questionnaire with questions anchored on a five (5) point Likert
type ranking scale. The data processing and analysis was done
mainly by descriptive analysis and the use of statistical package
for social science (SPSS Version 20) to produce presentable
summaries of the data and findings. A multiple regression
analysis was used to explain the existence of a relationship
between the independent variable; (Coordination role, Change
agent role, Conflict resolution role and Monitoring role) and the
dependent variable; (Performance of water resources projects).
The findings indicated that the role of leaders as coordinators,
and monitoring had a higher influence on the performance of
water resources projects in Kwale County. Additionally, the
study concluded that monitoring role should be a continuous task
thought all project phases especially in areas relating to resource
utilization, budget and the timelines defined in the project briefs
and schedule.
