• LINA AYAKO
• MILDRED AYERE
• KAREN NYANGARA

Background: The Economic Stimulus Pragramme (ESP) is an intervention that aimed at mitigating challenges encountered in the Kenyan education through increased enrolment after the introduction of free primary Education and Free Day Secondary education. Increased, enrolment against the available teachers, digital gap between the Kenyan economy and the labour market requirements. Through the supply of ICT among other interventions, it was envisaged that, this intervention would increase access to the leaners in unserved regions, enhance capacity of students and teacher by provision of ICT skills. Since the intervention was initiated in 2009 in 290 constituencies in Kenya information on whether the project has been evaluated is missing. Impact of COVID on learning system necessitates a relook of interventions to establish what impact they have in education. ICT infrastructure support being one of the interventions under ESP has been and to establish if it has had any relationship with the ICT integration in schools. Materials and methods: A multi-stage proportionate sampling selected 36 Principals out of a population 1,050,108 teachers out of 3,150 teachers countrywide and 8 officers out of 80 derived from staff at the Ministry of education headquarters. Principal interview, Teachers questionnaire and Document analysis tools were used. Responses from the three groups were analyzed to determine the effects of Infrastructure supply on ICT integration. Results: We established that infrastructure was highly inadequate in all the institutions. We also established that the relationship between ICT infrastructure support and ICT integration is significant with a coefficient of (r=0.388, p-value=0.0001). Conclusion: We concluded that despite the infrastructure support through ESP schools still lacked ICT equipment that would significantly impact on ICT integration in schools.

Keywords: Economic Stimulus Programme, Information Computer Technology, Infrastructure Support and ICT Integration.

"ASSESSMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT UNDER ECONOMIC STIMULUS PROGRAMME IN ICT INTEGRATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KENYA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no.f653-f657, November-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211583.pdf

"ASSESSMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT UNDER ECONOMIC STIMULUS PROGRAMME IN ICT INTEGRATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KENYA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no. ppf653-f657, November-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211583.pdf