Assessing Factors for Effective Participation of Stakeholders in Ngo’s Youth-Lead Project Monitoring and Evaluation in Dodoma City Council.

This study was about Assessing Factors for Effective Participation of Stakeholders in NGO’s Youth –lead Project Monitoring an Evaluation in Dodoma City Council. A descriptive design was used by the researcher where primary and secondary data were collected from 8 NGOs with sample size of 245 and processed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20. It was found that despite of few youth reported of being participated in planning and implementation of the youth lead project M&E, they were rarely participated. Involvement of various stakeholders in program M&E, improves its quality and help address local needs. It was also found that, donors are involved in some stages; community was involved in very few stages; government was involved in some stages; while youths were involved in some stages of M&E system of the youth-lead projects. Lack of awareness among stakeholders, Budget constraints Intangible impacts of the youth lead project and Organization initial planning procedures had statistical significance influence to effective participation of stakeholders in youth lead project M&E. It was recommended that; there should be additional financial resources towards participatory M&E activities, staff and stakeholders capacity building in M&E skills and knowledge and involves stakeholders from the initial to final planning procedures. Keywords: Monitoring; Evaluation; Participation; Projects; NGOs; Stakeholder