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• TITLE: Monitoring and Evaluation for Quality Service Delivery in Pre-Primary Schools in Murang’a County, Kenya

  AUTHORS: Kamau Joyce Muthoni, Ong’ang’a H. Ouko, Kimamo Githui

  KEYWORDS: Monitoring and Evaluation, Policy Implementation, Early Childhood Development, Quality Service Delivery, Pre-Primary Schools

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.9 No.5, May 25, 2021

  ABSTRACT: Monitoring and evaluation of the National Early Childhood Development (ECD) Policy framework in Kenya which has been in place since the year 2006 accompanied by a service guideline is important in promoting its implementation. The extent to which the policy is implemented would have a direct pairing with the quality of early childhood service delivery. The purpose of this study was to investigate the levels of monitoring and evaluation in implementation of the National Early Childhood Development Policy framework for quality service delivery in pre-primary schools in Kenya. Conflict Ambiguity Model of Policy implementation, Broffenbrenner’s Ecological systems theory and Lilian Katz perspective on quality theory were used. Mixed methods research approach and concurrent triangulation design guided the study. Data was collected using questionnaire, observation schedule and interview guides. Instruments reliability coefficient was 0.85. Qualitative data was analyzed thematically and quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings indicated that a strong relation between monitoring and evaluation at p