Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration and Sustainability of Community Water Resource Projects

Sustainability of water resource projects is increasingly becoming an area of concern for researchers given the climate change, amplified scarcity of water resources and the continued failure of many water resource projects. Community management was viewed as an accepted model that leads to sustainability water resource projects but it also had issues due to social, technical, multi-stakeholder and financial constraints. In the past decade various remedies aimed at promoting sustainability of projects have been tried. One of the prescriptions has been Multi-stakeholder collaboration in community water resource projects. This study sought to establish the influence of Multi-stakeholder collaboration in sustainability of community water resource projects in Nyeri County, Kenya. The study adopted a mixed method research anchored on a concurrent triangulation in which structured questionnaires, Key Informant Interviews and Focus Group Discussions were the main tools for data collection. Arithmetic mean and standard deviation were generated from the descriptive data. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient(r) was computed. The study contacted 290 respondents out of which 207 positively responded to a survey questionnaire. This represented a successful return rate of 71.38 percent. The study established a significant independent influence of Multi-stakeholder collaboration on sustainability of community water resource projects. To guarantee project sustainability the study recommends that community water resource projects should be delivered in Multi-stakeholder collaboration to enable access to resources that are out of reach of the community.