Okatta, Timothy OsiruMuhingi, Wilkins NdegeMuthomi, SimonOchieng, Dancun OnyangoMutavi, Teresia NdiluSimiyu, Violet Nekesa2024-02-132021-10-142024-02-132017-09-01Okatta, T. O., Muhingi, W. N., Muthomi, S., Ochieng, D. O., Mutavi, T. N., & Simiyu, V. N. (2017). Unhooking tentacles of financial dependency: Challenges and opportunities of public benefit organizations in Nairobi County’s informal settlements, Kenya. International Journal of Development and Sustainability, 6(11), 1905–1918.2186-8662https://repo.pacuniversity.ac.ke/handle/123456789/3445.2Journal ArticleThis study explored the opportunities and challenges faced by PBOs in implementing financial sustainability strategies in Nairobi informal settlements in Kenya. A concurrent mixed methods approach particularly descriptive in design was adopted on a sample of 304 respondents sampled randomly and purposively. Drawing from Focused Group Discussion Schedules and interview guides that were used to collect data that was subsequently analysed quantitatively and qualitatively using descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and content analysis as per themes respectively, the study demonstrates that a high majority of 90.5 % of PBOs faced challenges in implementing their financial sustainability strategies while 9.5% were not facing challenges in implementing their financial sustainability strategies. Most of the PBOs financial sustainability strategies faced a challenge of lack of commitment, represented by 47.6%, while 38.1% faced lack of capital to establish the financial sustainability strategies. Very few 9.5% revealed slow growth of the financial suitability initiatives while 4.8% attributed to government laws and policies. The obtained p-value = 0.858 was more than alpha (0.05) implying that there was evidence to accept the null hypothesis hence there is no significant difference in the challenges faced by PBO within length of time in implementing financial sustainability strategies. The study concluded that PBOs were not adequately engaging stakeholders in program design, implementation and resource mobilization thus were facing various challenges in implementing financial sustainability initiative.enFinancial SustainabilityOpportunitiesChallengesImplementationArticle