ABSTRACT The study focused on academic performance in secondary schools in Tanzania taking as a case study of selected secondary schools in Dodoma Municipality. The general objective of this study was to explore factors contributing to academic performance of secondary schools students in Dodoma Municipality. A sample of one hundred (100) respondents was selected, data was collected through questionnaires, interview and documentary review. Data were analyzed by using qualitatively, quantitat...
ABSTRACT The study is about assessment of women access to land ownership for poverty reduction in Bahi District, Dodoma Region. The main objectives of the study were to examine the prevailing status of women access to land in Bahi District Council, to scrutinize the effects of women access to land ownership on poverty reduction in the study area, to identify the factors affecting women access to land ownership in the study area and to document the community suggestions on how to improve wome...
ABSTRACT Improvement of public service delivery has been continuous effort of every state institution so as they can be able to maintain the legitimacy to the citizens. Tanzanian government see the need to strengthen delivery of service by introducing service charter applicable in both public and private organisations. This study therefore attempts to assess the impact of service charter on service delivery in higher learning institutions: A comparative study of private and public universiti...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the factors contributing to low teachers retention in rural public secondary school in Kiteto district. The objectives of the study included: to establish the effect of remuneration on teacher retention; to find out the effect of conditions of working environment on teacher retention in, and to examine the effect of a general school management on teacher retention. Literature review related to study topic which done by other scholars were inc...
ABSTRACT Sustainable development has in the last three decades become a widely debated notion. Nevertheless the objective of achieving a state of sustainability has so far not been attained. The study examines reasons for this condition by investigating activities on the global, national and local levels, and examining various philosophies and approaches, to determine what constitutes sustainable development and sustainability. In the first chapter, the research problem, the objectives of th...
ABSTRACT The world has become a global village, thus higher education has become increasingly international because students and academics have a choice to study or teach at preferred institutions. While interest in international education has increased over the years, various universities have developed policies and strategies for internationalisation, which act as a guide for their respective institutions. Despite the fact that the University of Namibia came into existence in 1992, compare...
This study investigates public-private partnership for health delivery in the context of Ghana’s health sector reform. It sets out to understand the nature of collaboration between the government and private not-for-profit health organisations in Ghana by uncovering the factors that necessitated the partnership, the mechanisms by which the partners engage each other, how the partnership arrangement fits within the governance architecture of the health sector reform and how the partners...
AnSTnA('T j cfficic.:nl and c.:llcclive civil service is a sinequanun ror a country like .lJ/ I lr.1 Nigeria, which yearns to catch up.lather nations in the race towards socio-economic nd industrial development after almost a cenrury of backwardness under British rule. However an effective civil service had eluded us as a result of the imperfections inherent in the nations socio-economic and political systems. Since independence there have been a growing dissatisfaction with civil servic...
Abstract The issues of economic reforms, deregulation, 1 iberal isation or economic adjustment programme began in the early 80s, particularly i n the Afr i can c o n t i nent. Even though the terms are used synonymously, there are d iffe r i ng e m phasis and applications i n government pol icies, jou r nalistic and economic parlance. Whatever the case may be, the application of these terms began w ith the ac.loption, at least i n the Afric::in co11ti11e11t, or the Economic Structural Adjus...
ABSTRACT Background: Irrespective of an individual’s race, sex, religion and finances, health must be rudimentary and an indispensable benefit to all, generally making healthcare supreme to every person. Nonetheless, for the reason that children are confronted with special health problems linked to the phases of their physical and mental development, which make them vulnerable to malnourishment and infectious diseases, health care is more critical for children. Objective: To assess the con...
.ABITR.ACT It is a lon g held belief tha t the grea test a rea of wa ste, corrup tion and misapp rop ria tion in the pu blic sector is on p rocu remen t and con tra ct mana gemen t. These executive excesses a re largely a ttribu ted to la ck of p rop er regula tion and ad equa te con trol. This resea rch is design ed to look in to the issu e. The en tire resea rch work wa s focu sed on the effect of the govern men t du e p rocess policy on pu bl ic p rocu remen t and con tra ct mana gemen t u...
ABSTRACT The Nigerian federation which is made up of thirty-six states and 774 local government councils has since its gradual evolution as a colonial federal state in 1954 been contending with issues of revenue generation and allocation. Various efforts were made through Commissions, Decrees and Committees to address the fiscal dimensions of the Nigerian federal system. However, the issues remained controversial, contentious, conflictual, and threatening to the foundation and survival ...
ABSTRACT Attempt to conduct a study of this nature was predicated on the need to determine the impact of effective communication on the organizational performance of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). It is important to emphasize the fact that communication plays a vital role towards the achievement of organizational objective but this objective can only be achieved when there is enabling environment for both the staff and management of any given organization. After review of relev...
INTRODUCTION Background Information According to Sanchez, Geisbert & Feldmann (2006), Ebola Virus Disease, formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever is a severe Zoonotic disease (ECDC, 2014). There are five distinct subtypes of the Ebola virus namely, Ebola Virus (formally known as Zaïre Ebola Virus), Ebola-Sudan Virus, Ebola-Ivory Coast Virus, EbolaBundibugyo Virus and Ebola-Reston Virus. The EVD has mostly occurred in SubSahara Africa since its discovery in 1976. The first cases of EVD ...
Public .relations practice has therefore, been with man since the Stone Age with modifications being only in the tools and techniques of practice. As a profession, the term public relations was first used by Dorman Eaton, a lawyer in an address to graduating students of Yale University, USA in 1882 while President Thomas Jefferson (USA) is credited as being the first head of government to have used it in his seventh union address to the American Congress in 1807 (Newson et-al, 1981 :23).