ABSTRACT The Zimbabwe Private Healthcare sector has been under capital distress and the researcher’s interest in the under invested sector of the economy prompted this research. The research focused on analyzing capital expenditure financing techniques on the operations of private hospitals (a case study of Suburban Medical Centre). Suburban Medical Centre has been experiencing shortages of funds to finance the acquisition of medical equipment thus the hospital is operating with obsolete an...
ABSTRACT This Research is entitled E-Government- Implications on service provision. The Case of Bulawayo City Council. The researcher came up with objectives to guide the research which were to assess the extent to whether e-government is being used fully or partially used in BCC, to analyse the value added by the use of e-government in improving service provision, to examine the e-service delivery channels that Bulawayo City Council is using, to examine challenges associated with the use of ...
ABSTRACT Strategy Implementation is the process of institutionalization and operationalization of strategies put in place by an organization to achieve its set objectives. Organizational performance is therefore the output or result realized by an organization as a result of implementation of strategies an organization has in place and can be measured against its set objectives or goals. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between strategy implementation and performa...
ABSTRACT Micro finance institutions contribute towards a country’s economic growth, employment creation, poverty reduction and development of an industrial base. According to the Bureau of Statistics economic survey of 2017, Micro Finance Institutions contributed to 20% of Kenya’s GDP. However, according to an article in the Daily Nation in 2017 Kenya Women Finance Trust lost about 800 employees in a span of two years. The institution developed and implemented appropriate Human Resource M...
ABSTRACT This research was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of franchising as a strategy for Dairibord to achieve competitiveness. The research was motivated by the challenges that the company is facing such as stiff competition, decrease in sales volume and market share and high operational cost. The major aims of this research were to determine the contribution of franchising on sales volume and market share, determine the contribution of product distribution and trademark franchisi...
ABSTRACT This research was carried out to analyse the credibility of an auditor‟s report for commercial banks in making financing and investing decisions. The usefulness of the audit report for commercial banks in making financing and investing decisions has been called into question after many banks have been issued with unqualified reports, and still went through liquidation some few months later. The main objective of this research was to analyse the usefulness of audit report for Commer...
Abstract The study examined the effectiveness of male engagement in maternal health in ward 28 of Chipinge. The area has experienced high maternal mortality rate as well as poor maternal health services. 64 respondents from the eight villages were identified four representatives from each village. The researcher used focus group discussions and structured questionnaires as the data collection tools. The findings are grounded on the structured questionnaires directed to the adult women and men...
ABSTRACT Education is one of the basic human rights. The right to education has been enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Girl child education was identified as the most urgent priority at the World Conference on Education For All, held in Jomtein (1990).This includes the rights of females who are physically disabled. The rights of people with disabilities is a growing phenomenon Worldwide. Female learners who are physically disabled have constraints in attaining the...
ABSTRACT Distributor SMEs provide employment, jobs and support economies. They represent the interest of exporters in their specified territories for agreed range of products. However, a 2016 survey indicated that in 2015 and 2016, distributor SMEs had anticipated growth of 58% and 70% respectively. Yet, 11% was the reported growth totally in line with the plans in 2015. Further, a 2013 report by the ministry of industry and commerce in Kericho County indicated that the distributor SMEs in th...
ABSTRACT The Government of Kenya in its endeavor to enhance service delivery and accountability in the public finance management has introduced Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) for all its financial and accounting processes such as revenue collection, fiscal planning, supply chain management and expenditure control. Since its inception in 2003, it is evident that IFMIS implementation has had challenges in driving day-to-day operations of the government systems. A num...
ABSTRACT Many households in the globe continue to depend on woodcarving and basketry among other forms of traditional material culture to support their daily activities despite competition from factory-made items, whether imported or local. In other countries studies have shown how governments support such an informal sector, yet that is not the case in Uganda.In particular, households in Kanoni and Engari-sya sub-counties, Kiruhura district have been reported to use woodcarvings and basketry...
ABSTRACT Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) is an additional HIV preventive measure that is performed globally. In Kenya, the Ministry of Health added VMMC to its HIV preventive strategies after a series of consultations with various stakeholders and approved the VMMC policy in October, 2007. Majority of the Men in Usenge sub-location belong to the culturally non-circumcising Luo community and the uptake of VMMC in the region is expected to reverse the spread of HIV which is predomina...
ABSTRACT Globally, Kenya inclusive evidence shows that Radio remains crucial in the advertising market and development of democracy. Despite this, evidence shows that these firms face challenges in their performance in terms of customer satisfaction, growth and social performance leading to revenue decline from 13.4% to 6.8% between 2012 to 2017. This decline may be attributed to the radio firms marketing strategies, particularly market challenger strategies. Empirical evidence on market chal...
ABSTRACT Risk based internal auditing being a methodology that links internal auditing to an organization’s overall risk management framework, provides risk management process, annual audit planning, internal audit capacity and internal auditing standards which improves the efficiency of the internal control system of an organization thereby improving the overall financial performance. Existing literature demonstrate that RBA has capacity of risk identification and reduction i.e. its adopti...
Abstract The State as a political entity is confronted with several crosscutting challenges that often times transcend formation boundaries the post-Formation emergent contradictions, complexities and paradoxes are usually adequately amplified by political power relationships. This is even more so in multicultural States where the logic of standard majoritarian democratic philosophy, a la ancient Greece, has failed many times. This thesis is about devising structures and institutions suitable...