The impact of donor-funded projects on vulnerable Children

Abstract

This study examined the impact of impact of donor funded project on vulnerable children specifically examined the significance of donor funding on vulnerable children, examined whether there is cointegrations between number of vulnerable children and donors funding and lastly examined causality between number of vulnerable children and donors funding. The study guided by theory of structuration as developed by Anthony Giddens (1995) emphasizes the concepts of “structure” and “agency” and how this work to recreate and reshape each other, knowledge-based theory of the firm is that organizations exist in the way that they do because of their ability to manage knowledge more efficiently than is possible under other types of organizational structures, social loafing theory. This study opted for research Causal research design, and approach used was mixed research, Secondary data spinning from 2005 to 2021 collected from Compassion international, Tanzania database while primary data collected through questionnaires in purposive and random sampling were employed with 360 respondents. Data were analyzed through granger causality model through STATA analysis software. The results from shows that the probability value was 0.000 which is less than 0.05 level of significant, therefore reject the null hypothesis and conclude that lagged (3) Number of vulnerable children granger cause donor fund but also case two hypothesis, the results from table 4.8 shows that the probability value is 0.000 which is less than 0.05 level of significant, therefore author reject the null hypothesis and conclude that lagged (3) donor fund does not granger cause number of vulnerable children, hence to recommend Ministry of community development, gender, women and special group, have a dedicated budget to help vulnerable children instead of thinking the education ministry's budget is sufficient to help vulnerable children, and if possible, the government through the relevant ministries to strengthening special departments to engage with vulnerable children.