ABSTRACT Over the years, banking has undergone transformation from the traditional way of customers queuing for services in the banking halls to modern day banking where banks can be reached at anytime and anywhere for their service. Today banks have welcomed mobile technology as a package which enables bank customers to pay bills, deposit, plan for payment, check account balance and transfer money anytime anywhere. Empirical research has shown that while mobile banking have become popular in...
ABSTRACT The indigenous forest resources formed the basis of rural people’s livelihoods since time immemorial. The importance of these indigenous forest products led to their commercialization in different parts of the world. This study focused on the impact of the commercialization of indigenous forest products on rural livelihoods in Hurungwe North. A number of indigenous forest products have been commercialized. These include a variety of products that are being sold as food, medicines...
Abstract The study was conducted to find out the strategies which the county government has employed to education of Maasai girl in primary school in Narok County. The study was guided by the following objectives; to examine reason behind low enrolment of girl child to remain in school, to interrogate the cause of poor completion of class eight girl child in Narok county, to examine the strategies employed by county to retaining a girl child in school and to suggest specific interventions th...
ABSTRACT The thesis explored the coping strategies of street vendors in a hyperinflation of 2018-2019 in Mvuma town. It explored the copying strategies adopted by street vendors in reducing the impact of hyperinflation to their livelihood. To find coping strategies of street vendors, the research identified the vending activities in Mvuma, the challenges faced by street vendors and strategies they apply to overcome them. Structuration theory was used to enhance the theoretical understanding o...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of child marriage on girl’s educational rights. The study managed to look at the factors that have contributed to child marriages. In as much, the researcher also looked at how these causes of child marriage have been an obstacle to girl’s attainment of education hence suppressing their education rights. The study also looked at the effects of child marriages on girl’s education rights; these include poor academic performance...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to identify the natural and socio economic factors that affect indigenous chicken production and the level of their impact in Katangi and Ikombe divisions of Yatta sub county, Machakos County. The study therefore sought to establish why despite the Government, Non Governmental organizations and the communities spending a lot of resources in tackling food insecurity among the local communities through poultry keeping, there has been an increase in the num...
ABSTRACT The Kingdom at Victoria Falls Hotel was suffering from adverse variances in its budgeted fixed and variable costs and EBITDA for the years between 2013 and 2015 in failure to meet the targets. These adverse budget variances were eroding the shareholders’ wealth. The existence and primary mandate for any business establishment is to maximize the shareholders’ wealth creation through adding value through effective and efficient use of the available scarce resources. Earlier schola...
ABSTRACT The Government of Kenya and non-governmental organizations have promoted interventions or projects aimed at improving water situations in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands though with some low level of sustainability. Initiating projects to ease accessibility to water in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands is a good cause; however, without proper planning and integrated approach that ensures sustainability of water sources and its accessibility, such projects will not have lasting impact. This proje...
ABSTRACT The study explored the lived experiences of underground mine workers at Unki in Shurugwi special attention being on their work-family interaction. The developing portrayal of double worker families, single-parent families and families with senior care obligations, the overflow of women into non-conventional occupations and employments and the expanded association of men in the family area are quite recently a contributing factor of the progressions that have affected family structu...
ABSTRACT This study sought to understand the effects of corporate culture on performance ofwater and sewerage companies in southeastern Kenya . It specifically focused on four water and sewerage companies in Machakos and Makueni Counties namely: Machakos Water and Sewerage, Mavoko Water and sewerage Company, Makindu-Kibwezi Water and Sewerage Company and Wote Water and Sewerage Company . The specific objectives were to analyze the effect of employee involvement, norms and values and organizat...
ABSTRACT The billboard as a medium of advertising has caught up well with advertisers in Zimbabwe and the general public as well. Its main aim is to communicate with road users, pedestrians and drivers. It also aims at reminding customers about a product, attract attention and make them more aware of a product leading to increased purchases. The research was carried out as an investigation on the effect of billboard advertising on company performance focusing more on sales, market share and ...
ABSTRACT Resource Based Performance (RBP) is an innovative construct of an organisation, encompassing strategy, formal structure, and customer to supplier relationships; including innovation and technological capabilities; on which performance is tested. Firm success is not necessarily associated with market power or industry structure, but rather the result of innovation and new technologies which are critical in influencing the dynamics of external environment and competition. In essence, t...
Abstract This study seeks to evaluate the contribution of irrigation farming to food security in Zimbabwe with particular attention to Chikomba district. A mixed methodology that includes both qualitative and quantitative methods was used in the collection of data. Questionnaires, interviews and direct field observations were used as data collection tools. This study identified the crops grown in the irrigation schemes, it also determines the level of productivity and an evaluation on the c...
ABSTRACT The growth of supermarkets in Luanda town has not come without any challenges. While most retail outlets tend to cherish competition and encourage growth, it is surprising that two third of these firms drop out of the growth curve of the product lifecycle this is according to Vihiga county government in the ministry of trade which stated that in the past years the growth in retail outlets presence dropped by 25% citing reasons among them insufficient attention to SCM practices. Previ...
ABSTRACT The researcher aimed at investigating on the effectiveness of cost control techniques on operational performance at Interfresh ltd (Mazoe Citrus Estate). The company has been associated with high repair and maintenance costs, wastage and spoilage cost, labour cost without a proportional increase in revenue and negative significant variance which arose time and again within the department thereby decreasing operational performance. This pointed out that cost control techniques emplo...