Critical Success Factors Influencing the Performance of Development Projects: An Empirical Study of Constituency Development Fund Projects in Kenya

The present work attempts to identify critical success factors (CSFs) influencing the performance of development projects based on their key performance indicators (KPIs). In order to achieve this, it has considered the case of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) projects constructed between 2003 and 2011 in Kenya and collected the viewpoints of 175 respondents comprising clients, consultants and contractors involved in the implementation of CDF projects with regard to their perceptions on 30 success variables. The findings reveal that the individual items constituting these six factors essentially represent six CSFs namely project-related, client-related, consultant-related, contractor-related, supply chain-related and external environment-related factor. The findings of this study are also relevant to the development projects undertaken in other developing countries.