Factors Affecting the Sustainability of Community-Based Projects in Tanzania: A Case of Sikonge District in Tabora.

Komba, Christina (2023) Factors Affecting the Sustainability of Community-Based Projects in Tanzania: A Case of Sikonge District in Tabora. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study assesses the factors affecting sustainability of community-based projects in Sikonge District. The study adopted the participatory theory of development, theory of change and resource-based view theory. and other stakeholders were used. A sample of 190 project managers and field officers were employed as population of the study. A descriptive research design with a mixed research approach was used. Questionnaires were used to collect quantitative data while interview was used to collect qualitative data from stakeholders. The quantitative data was analyzed through descriptive statistics and multiple regression while the qualitative data was analyzed through thematic analysis. According to the findings, stakeholder participation has a positive and significant impact on project sustainability with a regression coefficient of 0.710 and a p-value of 0.000. Also, according to the findings, monitoring and evaluation had a positive and significant effect on project sustainability producing a regression coefficient of 0.396 and a p-value of 0.000. However, findings indicated that capacity building has a positive but insignificant effect on project sustainability (B=0.028, p-value=0.312) while funding was found to have a negative insignificant effect on project sustainability (B=-0.018, p-value=0.674). The study recommends that community-based projects should enhance the level of stakeholders’ participation by involving more stakeholder groups in the project. Also, monitoring and evaluation should be enhanced. Also, capacity building should be enhanced since it has a positive effect on the sustainability of the projects. Moreover, community-based projects should have more internally generated funds which are sufficient for implementing the projects when donor funds are not there. Keywords: Sustainability, Community, Projects, Community-Based Project.

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