| dc.description.abstract | The National Transport and Safety Authority (Operation of Motorcycles) Regulations, 2015, is a Kenyan comprehensive plan designed to address safety in themotorcycle sector.Despite this, there still exist high rate of motorcycle related fatalities. Whereas insufficiency of specific regulatory policies have been blamed for motorcycle injuries, very little information exist to support universal assessment of compliance with the provisions of these regulations, inhibiting the ability to restructure and repackage them. The purpose of this study was therefore to assess the bodaboda motorcyclists‟ compliance to a specific regulations. Specifically, the study sought to: Assess the level of adherence to the 15 regulations provided for in the policy by the Bodaboda Motorcyclists; Examine factors that determine compliance to the provisions of the policy and; Evaluate the SACCO model provided for in the policy. Conducted in Mbita subCounty, with poor roads and several islands necessitating motorcycling as a means of motorized land transport,the study was anchored on descriptive design and guided by Goal Framing Theory suggesting that goals frame the way people process information and act upon it. The study population was 2000 bodaboda riders, amongst them 10 special riders who were leaders of various bodaboda associations in the area and six traffic police officers. Using Krejcie & Morgan table, 322 boda boda riders, six traffic officers and 10 heads of boda boda groups formed the sample size. The sub-County was stratified into existing five County Assembly Wards from which systematic sampling was employed to select the 322 riders from the wards based on bodaboda population per ward. Quantitative data on compliance to the policy was collected using structured questionnaires presented and analyzed on a binary scale. Qualitative data on factors determining compliance and the role of SACCO model of the policy was collected using key informant interviews and Focused Group Discussions targeting the 10 bodaboda group/associations‟ leaders and the six traffic officers. Qualitative data was analyzed through coding which generated themes relevant to the objectives. The findings revealed mixed results of compliance to each of the provisions with child helmet scoring the lowest (0%) while compliance to „all time rear number plates‟ visibility scoring the highest (97.2%). It further revealed that, depending on how actors in the motorcycle industry framed their goals, costs, corruption, bureaucracy, mistrust, ignorance, comfort, hygiene, expectations, security, culture, religion, exploration, misunderstanding, carelessness, conflict of laws and political interference determined compliance with the regulations. It also emerged that SACCOs played a very important role in riders‟ behavioral change, social protection, economic enhancement, political empowerment as well as guaranteeing them physical security, which in-turn influenced their compliance to the regulations. To improve compliance the study suggested the need to: adapt gradual and piecemeal enforcement of the policy; enhance public information campaigns; empower SACCOs to enhance complete policy compliance; establish training institutions specific to motorcycles in the sub-County; include motorcycling in the secondary syllabus; and exhaustively relook at the law to address all variations. With such findings, it is hoped that, other than contributing to the on-going scholarly debates, the study will be a basis for policy initiative on the motorcycle transport safety in Kenya | en_US |
