| dc.description.abstract | Turkana county has attracted a lot of humanitarian projects to reach out to the needy situation in different areas of the community. However, most of the projects launched are characterized by cost overruns, delays, and unaccountability. The challenges could be attributed to among others, poor infrastructure, harsh weather, nomadic lifestyle, insecurity, and a turbulent environment. The hitches associated with supply and logistics management adversely affects the delivery of food, water and sanitation, medical products, and other services to the affected people. The study intends to determine the influence of procurement procedures on the performance of humanitarian projects in Turkana County. This study was anchored on the systems theory, a descriptive research design was employed in the study. The study respondents were 205 that comprised project managers, project coordinators, and procurement officers. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. The findings indicated that Procurement procedures were found to be satisfactory in explaining 68.2% of the performance of humanitarian projects in Turkana County. The study concluded that procurement procedures influence the performance of humanitarian projects. The study recommends that humanitarian organizations need to adhere to procurement policies when procuring humanitarian projects | en_US |
