ABSTRACT It is generally agreed that the pensioners form a class of poor people. There is also a feeling that the social security institutions which serve them are neither effective nor efficient enough to mobilize resources towards poverty alleviation for this category of the population. This feeling has called for the need of investigation into the issue. The main pmpose of this research repmi is therefore to present an evaluation of the contribution of the social security schemes to the s...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate into the impact of small scale welding industries on rural development, the prospect and challenges in Wa West district of the Upper West region. The population of the study consisted of members with electricity in their homes in some selected communities in the Wa west districts. Convenient sampling was used to select members of the sample frame. Two sampling techniques were employed in collecting the data. Thus, probability sampling and non probabil...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the contribution of Urban Agriculture on the improvement of people‟s livelihood in Dodoma Municipality. The study focused on identifying the types of Urban Agriculture practiced in the study area, analyzing the characteristics of household involved in Urban Agriculture and ascertaining the contribution of Urban Agriculture on household food and income generation. Four wards namely Kilimani, Kikuyu North, Kikuyu South and Mkonze were involved in the study. A samp...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed at assessing the role played by third sector in fostering youth empowerment in Zimbabwe and a case study of Zimbabwe Red Cross Society in Highfields was used. The study was targeting youths in Highfields assessing the economic political and social impacts of the organisation to the youth. 40 respondents managed to take part in the research and all filled in questionnaires which were semi-structured with sections A, B and C. A total of 23 males and 17 females took ...
Culture is an important factor that influences acceptance of microfinance institutions lending models. Many scholars have applied Hofstede’s cultural model to understand how values affect people’s behaviors or decisions. However, researchers had overlooked applying Hofstede’s cultural model on microfinance institutions lending models. This study integrates Hofstede’s cultural model with borrowing decisions incurring joint vs. individual liability. To address these challenges, a study ...
ABSTRACT Conservation agriculture has been promoted and implemented as solution to enhance crop productivity, which in turn leads to food security and as a poverty alleviation mechanism among communal farmers in Zimbabwe, Zaka district in particular. Primarily this research is focusing on assessing the contributions of CA towards food security in the whole of Zaka district. This research presented CA as a multifaceted solution to food insecurity problem in Zaka District. Quantitative researc...
ABSTRACT This study "Domestic Violence and Gender Relations in Contemporary Uganda', was canied out in FIDA (U) Kampala District, with specific aims of examining the circumstances which give rise to domestic violence and gender relations through assessing the legalities considered, establishing loopholes in the laws protection against domestic violence to identify circumstances under which the law can be revised and suggesting possible interventions which can be relied upon in the revision ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to improve key stakeholders’ understanding of the effects of irregular road maintenance on urban road project costs. The study adopted the survey research design. Quantitative research method was used to gather primary data. The population for the study was 23 consisting of Urban Roads Management experts at the Urban Roads Department in Accra specifically Okaikoi –North, Okaikoi –South, East Ayawaso and Osu-krotey. The researcher used purposi...
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY It is very important to note that in many developing countries like Nigeria, it is being argued that the small scale industries have not and cannot alone be expected to play the dynamic role that they are expected to play towards the rapid growth and development of the various segment of the country. It is therefore becoming even more important those countries that the small scale industries which had however been neglected could play a significan...
AbstractThis research work that analysis on the impact of public opinion on public policy in Nigeria from 2010-2012 while narrowing it down to the economic policy of deregulation or fuel subsidy removal of 2012. Broadly divided into five chapters, the work breakdown how governmental decisions are being influenced by the opinions of the people in the democracy of Nigeria. History had it that before the discovery of oil, agriculture gave Nigeria about 70% of her income until now oil has earned ...
ABSTRACT Baringo District is one of the districts in Kenya that is categorized as an ASAL area, characterized by high poverty and food insecurity. Subsistence farming and pastoralism have been and still are the main source of livelihood for majority of the people. However, since crop and livestock agriculture are susceptible to drought, beekeeping has become the sole most important alternative form of sustenance. Despite documented potential benefits of value addition, honey is majorly produ...
ABSTRACT The main focus of this thesis was to examine how social issues are conceived and articulated in a representative selection of Namibian post-independence poetry written in English. Couched on and guided by socio-historicism and postcolonialism, this qualitative study elucidated the socio-political, socio-economic and socio-cultural factors that militate against Namibia’s total liberation as depicted in the selected poems. The study found that the Namibian post-independence experien...
ABSTRACT This report is a result of an academic research entitled the role of Women Guarantee Fund as a strategy for poverty reduction a case study National Women Council in Kayonza district. The objectives of the study were to identify the ways in which women are financed to overcome poverty, to find out the contribution of Women Guarantee fund offered to the socio-economic welfare of beneficiaries and to find out the limitations faced by the beneficiaries in accessing the credit. To test ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION ............................................................................................................ ii APPROVAL. ................................................................................................................. iii DEDICATION .............................................................................................................. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................
TABLE OF CONTENTSDeclaration .......................... ......... . . .. .. ......... . ..... .. ..................................................... 1Approval ................................................................................................................................. iiDedication ................................................................................................................................. iiiAcknowledgement ...............................................