ABSTRACT There have been a number of attempts to address the land question in Uganda in the recent past, but all these attempts have not satisfactory addressed the problem. The study on challenges in the development of the Uganda National Land Policy aimed at finding out the process of Uganda national land policy development; examining the role of stakeholders in the development of the national land policy and investigating the challenges encountered by the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Ur...
ABSTRACT This study correlated between implementation of administrative decentralization and enhancement of human capacity on services delivery in selected local governments in Busoga region. The specific objectives of the study were in these variables : (1) socio demographic characteristics of the respondents in terms of gender, age, tribe, religion, educational qualification, present position, number of years work experience in present position , district and department ; (2) the extent of ...
ABSTRACT The study is concerned with the implementation of the Universal Primary Education policy and its effectiveness in Tanzania. The study articulates an indepth understanding of the current status of the policy and the critical constraints on its effectiveness. This study will contribute to the ongoing discussion between the government and the different stakeholders toward the articulation of the effectiveness implementation of the policy. This study was conducted through a cross — sec...
ABSTRACT Various structural changes intended to lower interest rate spread were initiated by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) since interest rate liberalization in early 1990s, but as documented in various Monetary Policy Statement issues and acknowledged by the Industry players and policy makers, interest rate spread remained high. High interest rate spread denotes intermediation inefficiencies leading to disincentive to investment through poor reallocation of resources and lowers effect...
ABSTRACT The adoption and use of mobile money have become widespread particularly among the poor and the unbanked society. Besides reducing the costs of communication and improving access to information, mobile phones are an enabling technology for other innovations. One important example is mobile money transfers services, which could be very relevant for the rural poor, who are often under-served by the formal banking system. As a valued addition service (VAS), Mobile Money Transfer Service...
The World Health Organization (WHO), approximates that 830 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth with ninety-nine percent of these maternal deaths occurring in developing countries. Kenya has a high maternal mortality rate at 362 deaths per 100,000 births as compared to a target of 70 deaths per 100,00 births. On 1st June 2013, the Kenya government, made a declaration that delivery services were to be offered free of charge to encourage women to ...
ABSTRACT With the devolved system of governance in Kenya, financial autonomy is a key tenet of the County Governments sustainability. The general objective was to identify strategies through which County Governments Own Source Revenue (OSR) can be diversified to promote enhanced local revenues. The specific objectives were to establish the factors which contribute to the current revenue collection trends by County Governments in Kenya and to establish the performance of counties in Kenya on ...
ABSTRACT This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of understanding the right to privacy of personal data relating to someone’s personal life. The objectives guiding this study were: to establish to what extent users of mobile applications understand that personal data collected through these applications was private. To understand the role of mobile application users in enhacing the knowledge of role of privacy when using mobile application. Finally, to establish to what extent mobile...
ABSTRACT This research paper examines the experiences and challenges of county governments in resource allocation by undertaking a budget analysis of 15 county governments. The study uses ‘resource allocation’ to mean the funds (monies) allocated to the three devolved functions of agriculture, health and water. The criteria on the selection of the counties included in the sample was the poverty index clustered into three namely 5 urban counties, 5 rich counties and 5 poor counties with s...