ABSTRACT In a digital information-based economy, governments must modernize to survive or risk becoming irrelevant. In Kenya, e-governance is being used as one of the government’s strategy cornerstone for enhancing accessibility of services to citizens. However, despite the increasing adoption of e-governance, researchers conclude that low uptake and use of the available online services has been witnessed in Kenya. This study sought to examine determinants of how government online services ...
ABSTRACT Sustainability of community based and managed rural water supplies in Kenya remains a challenge. In spite of concerted efforts to transfer ownership of rural water supplies to beneficiary communities and increasing participation of the communities in the operation and maintenance of these facilities, more than a third of all rural water supplies fail within three years of development. The purpose of this research was to investigate the factors that moderate the effect of various comm...
ABSTRACT Performance has remained poor in most of the public secondary schools in Kenya. This is despite the government’s commitment to improve standards of education through the constitution of school board of management (BOM).The strategic approaches by the BOMs can be attributed to the performance of public secondary schools. This study therefore purposed to examine strategic actions of boards of management and the performance of public secondary schools in Nakuru County Kenya. The study...
ABSTRACT This study was an assessment of the effects of older persons cash transfer funds on the well-being of the elderly in Kibera informal settlements,Nairobi County,Kenya.The study was guided by the following objectives: to establish the recipients of OPCT program in Kibera informal settlements; examine the different implications of OPCT funds on the well being of the elderly;establish challenges that OPCT program face in addressing the needs of the elderly; and identify the best strategi...
Abstract River catchments sustain human civilization and related biodiversity. The numerous resource bases from river catchments include: drinking water supply, abstraction of water for agriculture, for hydropower generation, recreation, transport, construction materials and fishing. However, despite their value to mankind river catchments are under pressure and are facing degradation and threat from communities and from climate change. Kasikeu River catchment is located within the Kilungu ca...
Abstract Effects of marketing Mix elements on sales performance of automotive fuels in Kenya have not received sufficient attention. This knowledge gap inspires this proposed study. The broad objective is to examine how product, price, promotion and place can applied to increase sales volume of automotive fuels especially regular, super, and diesel in Nakuru town. A survey of selected service stations in the town is chosen to determine the effects of the 4 Ps on sales performance of the produ...
ABSTRACT Kenya seeks to meet the Millennium Development Goals, under the guidance of The Kenya Vision 2030. The leading challenge to this course remains the soaring debt servicing obligations, capturing a significant portion of the national budget. Kenya has been borrowing externally at higher rates and continually expanding the debt ceiling. The government will therefore in future spend a significant portion of its revenue repaying the debts at the cost of important local investment. The gov...
ABSTRACT Infidelity impacts negatively on relationship functioning and stability of the marriages making the study of this phenomenon crucial and timely endeavor in the Mwingi Central Constituency (MCC). Although, many African communities have regulations against infidelity especially in marriage, many married couples are involved in extra marital affairs ((Drigotas, Safstrom, & Gentilia, 1999). Infidelity in MCC has led to marital strife leading to separations, wife battering, prostitution, ...
ABSTRACT The implementation of sustainable integrated solid waste management is one of the key parts to addressing sustainable development in the current generation. Current global trends of population growth urban and consumerism have dramatically increased the generation of waste in urban area. Inadequate waste services have led to informal burning and dumping in streets and open spaces, which is degrading the environment and creating profound public health concerns. With no strategy in pla...
ABSTRACT In this era of dramatic change, global alliances, and a variety of environmental pressures, the potential for failure is very real in the implementation of strategic plans. Provision of vocational education has been gradually registering the low number of students’ enrolments because it has been facing various problems. Many countries have been crying foul over the challenges facing the education sector, including lack of learning resources and maximum utilization of the available ...
ABSTRACT Adoption of e-governance in delivery of services is one of the ways in which public sector organizations can enhance efficiency and effectiveness in delivery of services. The establishment of devolved system of governance created 47 semi-autonomous County Governments mandated to provide governance services within their region. Studies have been conducted on adoption of e-governance in the devolved government structure, however, most of studies did not utilize the UTAUT model or moder...
ABSTRACT Projects exist to meet specific needs and Compassion Kenya-assisted holistic child development projects are among such projects whose intent is to liberate children and youth from their economic, spiritual, physical and socio-emotional poverty. Success of these projects depend on a number of factors such as planning, communications, employee competence and risk management. How these factors influence project performance is an area that has not been explored before and as such formed ...
ABSTRACT Personal finance literature underscore the fact that only a minority of households feel confident about their saving adequacy on retirement because little is known about why people fail to plan and prepare for eventual retirement and even among households with similar socioeconomic characteristics savings and wealth vary considerably. Further, questions abound on whether planning and financial preparedness costs affect retirement saving patterns considering that many households arriv...
ABSTRACT The travel and tour agencies play an important role in the economy of a country as they help in promoting the tourism sector by linking customers to the tourism sector. The agencies make both national and international tourism easy by providing services to the customers which they would have had a difficult time getting on their own like getting Visas for international travel. At the same time, they help in creating employment to a large number of people. Despite. The focus of t...
ABSTRACT This research project is meant to identify the impact of Real Estate Development in the growth of Real Estate Agents in Nakuru Municipality. The occupation of real estate broker or real estate agent began in the early nineteenth century. Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, most sales of real property involved lawyers and business persons but not real estate agents as we have come to know them. In some instances, parties to real estate sales had employees who handled the transactions...