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Abstract: Achieving strategic objectives is very important to many business including SMEs owned by women in that it ensures that the business survives which is the goal any entrepreneur who starts a business. studies have shown that there are list of factors within the business environment that affects the performance of the women owned SMEs. This includes lack of market accessibility among others. These factors have led to the collapse of many women owned businesses or making them stagnate at one point for so long. The study was guided by the following objective; to, assess the effects of access to finance on performance by women owned SMEs in Eldoret, The study was guided by the resource based view theory. The study further employed the use of survey research design. The study targeted seven hundred and thirty eight SMEs in Eldoret town that are owned by women. of this, three hundred and three were sampled. Simple random method was used to pick identified SMEs. The research used primary data that was collected using questionnaires. Validity was checked using expert opinion while reliability was tested using the test-re-test method. Data collected was coded and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Simple regression analysis technique was used to determine the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variable. The results of regressions indicated that access to finance had a significant relationship at five percent confidence with performance. The study concluded that source of finance is an important .component to accessing finance, iacquisition of irelevant ivocational itraining, itechnical iskills .and ibusiness iskills is igenerally iregarded as ione of the icritical ifactors for isuccess in iwomen .owned SMEs. The study recommended that policies should be developed to support women access finance from formal financial institutions DOI: https://doi.org/10.51505/IJEBMR.2026.10401 |
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