Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2021, 9, 173-187 https://www.scirp.org/journal/jss ISSN Online: 2327-5960 ISSN Print: 2327-5952 DOI: 10.4236/jss.2021.93012 Mar. 17, 2021 173 Open Journal of Social Sciences Influences of Community Participation on School Infrastructure Policy Implementation and Performance of Construction Projects Stephen J. Kamau 1 , Charles M. Rambo 2 , John M. Mbugua 2 1 School of Business and Economics, Kirinyaga University, Kirinyaga, Kenya 2 School of Open and Distance Learning, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya Abstract Community participation has been used in the developing world as a fallback when government efforts to establish schools and education within communi- ties fail or are inadequate. The study was conducted in Somaliland—a state in the horn of Africa that is in the process or rebuilding schools and reestablish- ing education after the wanton destruction of the education infrastructure during the Somali civil war. With a school infrastructure regulatory policy having been established to set standards for school infrastructure, the study examined how community participation influenced the effect of school infra- structure policy implementation on the performance of construction projects in public primary schools. The study was set in Somaliland and targeted all public primary school headteachers in all the administrative regions and Dis- trict Education Officers (DEO) in all the Districts. A cross-sectional survey guided by pragmatism, the study collected data from 20 DEOs and 247 head- teachers. Headteachers filled questionnaires while DEOs were interviewed. Primary schools that reported low levels of community participation also rea- lized a positive influence of school infrastructure policy implementation on the performance of construction projects, while schools that reported mod- erate and high levels of community participation did not. Community partic- ipation doesn’t only bring positive influences to projects but negative influ- ences as well. Community participation has a significant low and negative par- tial moderation effect on the relationship between school infrastructure policy implementation and performance of construction projects. A linear model ex- ists among the three variables. Keywords Community Participation, School Infrastructure Policy, Performance, How to cite this paper: Kamau, S. J., Rambo, C. M., & Mbugua, J. M. (2021). Influences of Community Participation on School Infrastructure Policy Implementa- tion and Performance of Construction Pro- jects. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 9, 173-187. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2021.93012 Received: October 9, 2020 Accepted: March 14, 2021 Published: March 17, 2021 Copyright © 2021 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access