Influence of resource mobilization on sustainability of youth group projects in Mvita sub-county, Mombasa County, Kenya

Abstract

In the majority of poor nations, including Kenya, ensuring a project's sustainability is extremely difficult. Evidently, the difference between successful and unsuccessful youth group projects can be traced to sustainability. In order to support their project operations through donations and grants, youth group initiatives have traditionally relied on donor money. However, sometimes this funding is insufficient to cover project operations, project implementation, and later project sustainability. In order to ascertain how resource mobilization influences the longterm viability of youth group initiatives in Mombasa County, this study aimed at analysing the impact of resource mobilization on the sustainability of youth group projects in Mvita SubCounty. The study’s variables included financial resource acquisition, human resource mapping, physical resource acquisition as well as community involvement in youth group projects in the Mvita Sub County. The descriptive survey design method guided this study. This is a technique for gathering information from a sample of respondents by conducting interviews or distributing questionnaires. The study took place in Mombasa County's Mvita Sub-County. The study's target population was 55 respondents from youth group projects in Mvita Sub-County wards, made up of one committee member and two project officials for each of the selected youth group projects. The study sample size of 48 respondents was established. A stratified sampling technique was used for this investigation. Schedules for conducting interviews and questionnaires were employed as data gathering research instruments in the study. The pilot study involved ten Kwale County youth organizations with characteristics similar to those the researcher is researching. With the help of project managers from youth groups, the researcher distributed the surveys to the respondents. The researcher called the responders to confirm the interview time and location. The researcher took notes while conducting the interviews because they were conducted face-to-face. The most recent SPSS version was used to code the data so that it was ready for descriptive and regression analysis. In the study's descriptive analysis, standard deviations, means, frequencies, and percentages were all employed. After analysis, data was provided as tables, graphs, and charts. The acquisition of financial resources, the mapping of human resources, the purchase of physical resources, and community involvement were used to measure the sustainability of youth group projects. When compared to other factors determining the sustainability of youth group initiatives, it was discovered that financial resource acquisition needs had a moderate overall influence on the sustainability of youth group projects. Physical resource acquisition had a minimal influence after human resource mapping and the moderately close follow-up of youth group initiatives. Women's groups should undertake human resource mapping in order to lower the amount of money spent on outside sources. The machinery, office supplies, and tools needed for women's groups to manage their projects should be available. Lastly, women's groups ought to involve the community in all stages of the execution of their programs.