Factors influencing accessibility of social services in informal settlements. A case of children living with disabilities in Kasarani Subcounty, Kenya.

Type Thesis or Dissertation - Master of Arts
Title Factors influencing accessibility of social services in informal settlements. A case of children living with disabilities in Kasarani Subcounty, Kenya.
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2016
URL http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/11295/97825/Njeri_Factors Influencing Accessibility​Of Social Services In Informal Settlements.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Abstract
This study was initiated on the need to establish the factors influencing accessibility of social
services in informal settlements a case of children living with disabilities in Kasarani sub
county, Kenya. The Kasarani sub county in Kenya acted as the place for conducting the
study. The caregivers of children with disabilities, stakeholders working with children with
disabilities, Funding agencies targeting children with disabilities and Community based
organizations working with Children with disabilities in the informal settlements areas acted
as the target population. The target sample of 200 was selected out of a population of 2000
individuals. Data collection was performed through questionnaire while data coding and
analysis was performed through SPSS and presented. Descriptive and regression analysis was
used to analyze the data.Tables, Figures and Regression model was used to summarize the
data The study established that participation of stakeholders influences much on accessibility
of social services for children with disability in Kasarani Sub County. The study further
found out that funding influence to a great extent accessibility of social services for children
with disability. Also it found that a unit increase in capacity of caregivers leads to an increase
in accessibility of Social Services in the informal settlement. Based on the findings this study
recommended that more homecare should be established in the informal settlements in the
country so as to help those children with disability and also the government, as a policy
intervention, should review the funding of homecare program by fully extending the support
to all local community organizations in informal settlements.

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