ABSTRACT Agricultural based projects play a major part in sustaining domestic and regional economic growth and are important agents for alleviating poverty in developing countries. Utilization of technology in agricultural based projects however remains an issue of concern to researchers, government and project stakeholders. Recent studies have demonstrated that technology play a pivotal role in the performance of agricultural based projects. The purpose of this study was to establishing th...
ABSTRACT Many companies go into CSR without proper feasibility study or plan and this usually affects the success and future sustainability of the projects. Corporate Social Responsibility is a core strategy in business as it enhances trust, reliance, respect and transparency. In the process of satisfying the needs of stakeholder groups, the companies are able to maximize their commitment to their investors who in turn benefit most. Many companies go into CSR without proper feasibility study...
ABSTRACT E-learning is widely used in the education sector in nowadays; hence, it is essential to study the effects of technology implementation on performance of students. There are numerous studies about academic performance however; studies on e-learning in Kenya are minimal. This study sought to examine the association of e-learning implementation and performance of international schools in Nairobi. The specific objectives include; determining the effects of; technology readiness, teache...
ABSTRACT Kenya is facing a serious sustainability problem as well a significant challenge in financing scale up of HIV and AIDS services to reach universal access, working towards zero HIV new infection, zero discrimination and zero HIV related deaths and attaining beyond zero. The gap between the available resources and actual needs is projected to increase in the coming years and yet the evolving nature of the epidemic requires that NACC through the Government of Kenya begin to plan a futu...
ABSTRACT It is a precondition by benefactors that every proposal must have provision for effective M&E Systems costed for and performed by skilled M&E staff. Donors have further recommended that ten percent of the financial resources must be set aside for performing M & E in donor funded projects. However, this is not the case in primary education development (PRIEDE) project where Head teachers who are the project managers and only have skills on how to monitor and evaluate learner’s mast...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to investigate the effect of conflicts on project team productivity at Mastermind Tobacco Kenya Limited in order to build everlasting coexistence of members of a project team and ensure attainment of project as well as overall organizational goal. The objectives of this study were: to examine the effects of project leadership related conflicts on project teams’ productivity, to find out the effects of organizational structure related conflicts on project te...
ABSTRACT Incidents of poor performance of community projects have been documented by various research studies. Many projects encounter delays in implementation, poor quality of projects, time and cost overruns that affect the overall achievement of project objectives (Ramathan et al., 2012). The major problem being that introduction of technology has not been embraced effectively in monitoring and evaluating of project performance, to enable reporting with evidence, despite the much potentia...
ABSTRACT There has been poor performance of road contract due to diverse challenges such as poor management of funds and poor delivery of services to the road user. In addition, the performance measurement systems aren’t efficient or effective to overcome this problem. Road contractor’s performance problem appears in many aspects, ranging from fail in time performance, cost performance and others fail in other performance indicators. This study sought to establish and investigate the in...
ABSTRACT Monitoring and Evaluation over time have gained traction and become fundamental components in projects. Most internal evaluations are based on the assumption that evaluators are independent and do not bow to different forms of influence. Literature however reveals cases of evaluators being confronted by stakeholders to either alter or misrepresent their findings. Independence of evaluators at work is therefore at stake. The fear is that unless a solution is found, interferences are ...
ABSTRACT Most of the houses in Mombasa County are poorly constructed and without approved plans by Municipal Council of Mombasa and there are no urban plans for the structures constructed which makes Mombasa as a city surrounded by many shanty structures in the estates. In recent years, a number of financial institutions have encouraged the development of modern housing structures through provision of Financial assistance in form of loans, grants and implemented inform of projects. A good ex...
ABSTRACT The Nigerian maritime industry is dominated by foreign shipping companies. The foreign firms dominated over 95% of the activities whereby, rendering the indigenous companies useless and non-active. However, these have resulted to many companies to go underground since they cannot participate or complete favourably with the foreign companies. As a result of this, Nigeria loses billion of naira annually though capital flight which has affected the economy negatively. Nigeria is an imp...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to appraise the impact of Micro Projects Programme of European Union (MPP6) in Abia State on the living standard of the people. The introduction on the activities of micro projects programme in the Nine States of the Niger Delta tagged MPP3 and MPP6 respectively were traced. Attempt was made to review related literatures which formed the theoretical framework. This study, being empirical, primary data was collected through questionnaire administered to two hu...
This study undertakes a critical analysis of risk management as a formal technique for managing risks in project execution. It specifically probes into the proximate sources of risk into construction projects in Nigeria, the level of awareness and use of the technique amongst Nigerian construction professionals with a view to properly situating the remote causes of project distress and abandonment in Nigeria. In carrying out the study, large scale construction projects were targeted. Primary ...
Nanotechnology has its origin from various fields of science from physical, biological, engineering and chemical engineering where interestingly, new ideas have been produced to alter molecules and single atoms (Mubarakali et al., 2011). In the rapidly improving field of nanotechnology, nanomaterials are on the leading front. According to Shubba Rao et al. (2013), their special property is dependent on their size, giving them an edge over other materials and improves their applicability in va...
The study aimed at establishing the factors promoting adoption of E-Learning and determining the usability challenges in E-Learning applications in Kenya. Consequently, an E-learning educational prototype application was developed to address the usability challenges. The prototype application dubbed “Elimu Digital” was designed to complement physical classroom teaching by providing an online representation of course content. Both quantitative and qualitative analysis were employed in t...