KIJHUS Volume. 1, Issue 1 (2020)

Given the global challenges that affect Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) existence, managing risk is an unavoidable facet. The study investigated the effect of the Risk Management Process on functional performance among Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) of Kitui County in Kenya. The study sought to specifically test whether risk management processes: risk planning, risk identification, risk analysis and risk control could reliably predict functional performance. The results should assist development workers, development partners, professionals and the academia to ascertain whether risk management processes contribute to effective functional performance. A survey of 123 non-governmental organizations with 186 respondents using a multi- dimensional questionnaire established that there is a significant correlation between risk management processes and functional performance. Specifically, the findings revealed that risk identification is a predictor NGO functional performance than any other risk processes. This study contributes to literature on functional performance of NGOs by aligning the risk management process as a significant predictor of NGO functional performance.