Corporate governance principles and their effects on water policy implementation in selected water institutions in Nairobi County
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2023
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Obonyo, S. A.
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Strathmore University
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Water sector in Kenya has undergone major reforms with a vision of having a sustained and efficient delivery of services to consumers. The enactment of the Water Act in 2002 was the start of the great revolution, with a new structure and framework to govern operations around water and sanitation. The establishment of the Water Services Regulatory Board which has the mandate to make rules and enforce them so as to make the sector offer better services to consumers in an effective and sustainable way and protect their interests as well. This study assessed the corporate governance principles and their effects on water policy implementation in the selected three water institutions in Nairobi County, Kenya. The objectives included assessing how accountability contributes to the success of water policy implementation, establish the extent to which transparency contributes to the success of water policy implementation, determine how the principles of responsibility contributes to the success of water policy implementation and establish whether fairness contributes to the success of water policy implementation. Theories used included Agency, Stewardship and Stakeholders. This study used explanatory research design targeting the study participants. A sample size of 250 respondents was targeted. The sampling procedure used was the stratified random sampling method. Questionnaires comprising both open and closed-ended questions were the research instrument used to collect data and statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 27 was used for data analysis. Data was summarized under common themes and presented in form of percentages, pie charts, frequency tables and graphs. Results of the study indicates that accountability, responsibility, transparency and fairness have statistically positive effect on water policy implementation. The study concludes that, the governance principles which include accountability, transparency, responsibility, and fairness do have a significant role to play on the implementation of water policy and the various institutions. A positive effect is seen when the institutions have an accountability policy and the leadership is held accountable to the performance of the institution. On the other hand, lack of audit committees was found to have a negative impact on the implementation of water policy due to lack of a check system. The study recommends that relevant implementation policies should be put in place as well as the committees to increase the transparency, accountability and just treatment of everyone during implementations.
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Obonyo, S. A. (2023). Corporate governance principles and their effects on water policy implementation in selected water institutions in Nairobi County [Strathmore University]. http://hdl.handle.net/11071/13391