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The purpose of the study was to analyze cost sharing policy on provision of physical facilities in public day secondary schools: a case of Trans Nzoia and West Pokot Counties Kenya. The study was guided by the following objectives: to identify the effect of community on physical facilities development, role of government in physical facility development, role of partners and the removal of Parents Teachers Association support in physical facility development in Trans Nzoia and West Pokot Counties. The study was based on classical liberal theory. Descriptive survey was used by the researcher and research was employed in research design. Simple and stratified techniques of sampling were employed during the study. Target population for the study took into account all government-aided day secondary schools within Trans Nzoia and West Pokot Counties, out of which 86 schools were sampled. Observation schedules and questionnaires were the tools used to collect data which is quantitative in nature and the presented in frequencies of tables and analysis done by use of SPSS. The major findings indicated that majority of the schools were majorly supported by the communities, physical facilities and materials were lacking, majority schools charged the recommended ministry fees, majority of the schools relied on parents contributions to develop physical infrastructure, that government did not support physical infrastructural development, there is little support of the non state actors in physical development and there is a lacuna on physical infrastructure development. In the recommendations, the government needs to budget for and dispatch the finances directly to such schools on time; the government needs to initiate a strategy of building additional; sports facility, classrooms, toilets as well as science labs, transport infrastructure for schools, government should set aside resources to clear the debts owed by schools to avoid the skyrocketing interest accrued to this debts now that the Parents Association fund stands disqualified and the researcher also recommends that schools and stakeholders should rally donors and well wishers to support school facility development. Further research should be conducted on relationship between boards of management capacity in resource utilization in secondary schools and out the alternative and sustainable vehicle to school infrastructure funding. |
