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...
ABSTRACT Macro-economic theory suggests that there exists a causal relationship that runs from the Budget Deficit to Current account deficit, a concept referred to as the Twin Deficits Hypothesis. Further analysis has pointed towards an extension of this relationship running up to the Financial Account through the Savings-Investment Imbalance, a concept known as the Triplet Deficits Hypothesis. Presence of the triplet deficits implies that all the accounts are in deficit making internal balan...
ABSTRACT Nongovernmental organizations play key role in delivering education, healthcare, social aid and other welfare activities in most developing countries like Kenya and hence their financial sustainability cannot be ignored. Financial sustainability requires that NGOs be able to meet all their resource and financing obligations and remain in existence for unforeseeable future. However, just a small number (10 percent) of NGOs that had managed to achieve a desirable level of institutional...
ABSTRACT Despite extensive and continued use for nuclear science and technology for various applications, very little has been done to establish a legal and regulatory framework that ensures the safe and secure utilization of nuclear technology and science in Kenya. Attempts at enacting nuclear policy laws have largely been futile and painstakingly slow. This project examines whether attitudes, practices and knowledge of policy makers play any role in the enactment of nuclear energy laws in K...
ABSTRACT Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies play an important of enhancing economic stability and the general welfare of its members. However, in Nairobi City County, the only Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies that have continued to grow in terms of profitability include; Mwalimu National SACCO, Harambee SACCO, Stima SACCO, Kenya Police SACCO, Afya SACCO, United Nations SACCO, UNAITAS SACCO and Metropolitan National SACCO out of the existing 41 SACCOs. This is in contrast with th...
ABSTRACT Strategy implementation refers to choices and activities that translate a strategic thought to organizational actions where the organization moves from planning to execution of the plans to achieve its goals. Past researchers have attributed the recent growth in the SACCOs to the shift to effectiveness of strategy implementation. The Trans Nation SACCO has experienced growth in terms of profits, share capital, members, and loans uptake. The Trans Nation SACCO has been offering new pr...
ABSTRACT Commercial banks remain the dominant channel of financial intermediation in emerging market economies such as Kenya. After the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, policy makers, regulators and financial institutions heavily invested in reforms aimed at improving financial stability. At the same time, there has been global commitment to promoting greater financial inclusion. Consequently, commercial banks have addressed financial inclusion by designing new services and products targ...