Sabasaba urban water supply project was undertaken in order to increase the number of people in low-income areas within Murang'a County with access to improved water supply; to enable them to have clean water at their doorstep. In carrying out the project, World Bank employed Output-Based Aid scheme to make sure the project achieves its goals. Output-Based Aid funds predetermined project outputs unlike the conventional way of funding inputs. It serves to ensure prudent utilization of funds by

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... ifting performance risk to the organization mandated to deliver services; it also does so by linking outputs to the ultimate payments; hence transparency during project implementation. The study sought to examine the influence of project initiation, project planning, project implementation, and project monitoring on the project performance of Output-Based Aid funded Sabasaba urban water supply project. The study adopted value chain and resource-based theories. A predictive correlation design was used. The target population was 56 employees drawn from Murang'a South Water and Sewerage Company which is the implementing agency for Sabasaba water supply project. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. The study results were analysed using SPSS. The study found that the project initiation had a statistically significant influence on the project performance. The findings revealed that a unit change in the project initiation would lead to 0.404 changes in the project performance holding the other independent variables constant.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0943/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>