AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INFLUENCE OF PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION ON PERFORMANCE OF SMALLHOLDER TEA FARMING PROJECT IN NYAMIRA COUNTY, KENYA

The purpose of this study is to establish the inffuence of Participatory M&E on performance of smallholder tea farming projects. In this study participatory M&E refers to involving stakeholders in the entire project lifecycle. It also involves, stakeholder tea farming groups integration, group public participation, involvement in M&E activities, enhancing participatory community approaches and promoting social media cohesion which is a powerful tool on enhancing performance of smallholder tea farming projects.Participatory Rural Appraisal: visual methods, often to analyze before and after situations, through the use of community mapping, problem ranking, wealth ranking, seasonal anddailytimecharts,andother tools.BeneficiaryAssessment:conversational interviewing and focused group discussions on changes and impacts.The ANOVA results indicated that (F-statistics (1,369) =6.633 is significant at P value 0.010< 0.05 implying that the predictor co-efficient is at least not equal to zero and hence the regression model results in significantly better prediction of Performance of Smallholders Tea farming projects.