| dc.description.abstract | This study aimed to explore the factors that affect the sustainability of projects funded by affirmative action in Luwero District, Uganda. The specific objectives of the study were: - To evaluate how capacity building affects the sustainability of projects funded by affirmative action,to investigate how funding arrangements affect the sustainability of projects funded by affirmative action, to determine how stakeholder involvement affects the sustainability of projects funded by affirmative action. The study used a descriptive survey design and the target population was 190 projects that received funding from the affirmative action fund. The sample size for the study was 123 respondents selected using Krecjie and Morgan (1970) table and proportionate as suggested by Yamane (1967). The study collected data using questionnaires and analyzed data using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This involved organizing the data, summarizing it, identifying patterns, and applying statistical techniques to generate information that answered the research questions of the study and presented the results in a clear and convincing way on tables and according to the study objectives. Quantitative data was analysed using statistical software called Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) to obtain the statistical mean to determine the overall trend of the data set, and standard deviation to measure the spread of the data around the mean. Linear regression was used to determine the relationship between dependent and independent variables and to measure whether these relationships were strong or weak. The findings of the study show that capacity building influences the sustainability of affirmative action funded projects by giving beneficiaries the opportunity to understand the strategic direction of their project, providing intensive training for capacity building on the project to enable them to be better equipped to implement and sustain the projects, giving them a good understanding of resource mobilisation which enables them to be more effective and efficient, taking them through human resource development programmes and exposing them to exchange programmers and visits to other successful projects for capacity building as well as corroboration with other stakeholders. Funding arrangements affect the sustainability of affirmative action funded projects by ensuring that the process and procedure for obtaining funding for affirmative action funded projects is simple and straightforward, promoting the follow-up process for funding successful projects which if not done can negatively affect the projects, reducing the number of intermediaries that facilitate the funding process of affirmative action projects which can sometimes be lengthy and could delay the project service delivery and efficiency of the project; that inadequate and/or non-availability of constant funding affects the sustainability of affirmative action funded projects and the funding capacity for group funding, which greatly affects the retention of technical and competent staff, thus affecting the sustainability of projects on average. The aspects of stakeholder involvement and sustainability of affirmative action funded projects are that stakeholder analysis helps in identifying project participants, they are involved in decision making and participation in projects including cost sharing, stakeholder management is critical to the success and sustainability of projects, customer relationship management is a key factor in stakeholder involvement in projects and the fact that public relations helps in attracting and identifying the right stakeholders for the projects. Based on the findings, the researcher made the following recommendations: there is a need to create awareness among project members on general issues concerning the projects; the project vision and mission should be at the forefront and an integral part of the awareness process; project members should be involved in determining the strategic direction of the project; and there is a need to provide adequate financial resources and management capacity to the management. | en_US |
