1.1Background and Motivation Impact evaluation studies are designed to get at the impact of a policy or treatment. The aim is often to assess the viability or success of an intervention. These studies are also useful in cost-benefit analyses for gauging the size of the benefit attributable to an intervention. It is therefore important for an estimated treatment effect to be as free from bias as possible. The object of interest is often the Average Treatment Effect on the Treated (ATT), which ...
ABSTRACT NAMCOL makes use of formal education teachers who are appointed by the College as part-time tutors. Tutors are appointed on a seven-month contract starting from March up to September of each year. They are allocated one to two class groups depending on the number of learners enrolled per subject and are remunerated on an hourly basis. Many tutors therefore, prefer to teach more than one class group and decline to be appointed for one group only because the more class groups they teac...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges faced by school board members in executing their roles in the rural primary schools of the Omusati Region. The Namibian Education Act, promulgated in 2001, was committed in ensuring democracy through active involvement of all stakeholders (principals, teachers, parents, other stakeholders and learners in secondary schools) in the decision-making processes in schools through school board members. However, the evolution of sc...
ABSTRACT Environmental issues have become a matter of concern for many countries and educational institutions but this subject still remains largely under-investigated in literary studies, particularly in Africa. In this study, Ecocriticism was used in the analysis of Julia Amukoshi’s and Anneli Nghikembua’s poetry anthologies, Tales of the Rainbow: A collection of poetry in English and A True Me in Words: An Anthology of poems. Ecocriticism is concerned with the relationships between li...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at shedding light on shame and its relationship to violence, especially among offenders who repeatedly commit violent crimes. Questions revolving around the type of relationships or bonds offenders had with their caretakers as a child and its possible consequences were answered, leading to interpretations regarding the relationship between shame and with violence. The Social Bond Theory served as the theoretical framework for the sample. Subjects were chosen on the ...
ABSTRACT This study set out to investigate the role of religion in retaining people in abusive marraiges in Trans-Nzoia County.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the investigation of the Christian and Muslim relations and its implication on socio economic development
ABSTRACT Interfaith dialogue is indispensable to peace and tranquility globally within the context of religious pluralism. Christians and Muslims worldwide stand in need of greater intercommunication, collaboration, and interfaith dialogue for harmonious living. Leaders of these faiths concur that Christian-Muslim dialogue is imperative. However, the interaction between Pentecostal Christians and Muslims has generally been characterized by distrust, apprehension and mutual rivalry, sometimes...
ABSTRACT Youth failing to participate in the Church programmes though they attend church in large numbers has been a major concern in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) Kajiado Presbytery. As a result, most of church groups are being led by the elderly people. Failure of youths to be represented in various church groups is a great threat to growing churches because it means that future leaders are not being groomed which can result to having weak churches or even dissolution of so...
ABSTRACT The phenomenal rise of the Prosperity Gospel Teaching (PGT) continues to mushroom in Christian circles and has an influence on the whole-life stewardship. The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of prosperity gospel teaching (PGT) on whole-life stewardship in AGC in the Kampala area, Uganda. The conceptual framework for the whole-life stewardship has three independent variables as popular prosperity gospel teaching, biblical theology of material prosperity, and cultur...
ABSTRACT Spiritual development of youth is on of the most important aspects of any individual both at church and society.
ABSTRACT Widowhood has been as the highest cause of stress and it brings very many challenges which widows have to look for ways of coping effectively.
ABSTRACT One hundred years ago Christianity was practically unknown in Papua New Guinea, but today 95 percent of the population itself identifies as Christian.
ABSTRACT This study was conducted within the Church of the Nazarene, Malawi Central District. The study sought to investigate the effectiveness of pastoral counselling in the management of HIV/AIDS in the church. The objectives of the study were to establish the role of pastors concern for members welfare in effective management of HIV/AIDS; to assess the role of pastors social skills in HIV/AIDS management; to examine the role of pastors training (technical skills) in HIV/AIDS; and to deter...
ABSTRACT There is no known society the world over without religion. This shows that religion is an indispensable element in any human society. Throughout the ages religion has offered solutions to man’s problems, and explanations to the mysteries of the world. The desire for man to know and conquer his environment led to the advancement of science and technology. Consequently man has always longed and had a human and environmental transition from one region of development to another throug...