Stakeholders participation and the environmental sustainability of city Park in Nairobi County, Kenya

The study sought to establish the nexus between stakeholders’ participation and the environmental sustainability of city park in Nairobi county, Kenya. Stakeholders theory (1980s) and Co-management theory were selected to anchor the study. This study employed the descriptive research design. The target population was the stakeholders involved in sustaining City Park environment, as well as the users of the park. According to Nairobi County 81 stakeholders are involved in the park affairs. Purposive and judgments expert sampling technique was applied to select relevant institutions at County level. The same method was applied to select the CSOs, and private sector. Simple random sampling was used to select the users of City Park. The recommendations of Mugenda and Mugenda (2003) of 10% to get a random sample size of the users during the weekend was applied. Main data collection instruments were interview guides. 60 questionnaires were also used on the park users. The observation helped to obtain information from direct observation on the field. Numerical data analysis was done using SPSS version 20. Descriptive statistics such as mean, mode and percentages were calculated. For inferences, correlation coefficient was calculated. Conventional content analysis was used to analyze narrative data. The study findings indicated that there was a weak positive correlation between stakeholders’ participation and environmental sustainability in Nairobi county Kenya.