Abstract The county governments have been subsidizing trainees in public Vocational Training Centers (VTCs) in form of bursary to enhance enrolment and completion rates. The objectives of this paper are to determine the relationship between the Bungoma County Government Bursary (BCBG), gross enrolment and completion rates between the years 2014 to 2019. Correlational research design was adopted, and socialist economy theory guided the study. The study selected 48 VTCs and Training officers a...
Abstract: Leadership is one of the oldest phenomena in the history of social sciences and management that has an impact to business ventures sustainability. International joint ventures (IJVs) leadership encounters cross-cultural related and diverse workforce challenges that call for appropriate leadership behaviors (style) for their organization sustainability. This paper presents empirical research done on International Joint Ventures (IJVs) leadership in Botswana manufacturing with partne...
ABSTRACTS Immobilized enzymes have been widely used in the processing of variety of products. New strategies are continuously emerging for the formation of diverse immobilized enzymes having superior efficiency and usage. Immobilized enzymes have biomedical and industrial applications and for this reason, this area has continued to develop into an ever-expanding and multidisciplinary field during the last couple of decades. This study is a review of the latest literatures on different e...
ABSTRACT The recent torrent of migrations of Nigerians to other parts of the world such as Europe, Asia among others is alarming. Recently, several migrants and those who have close insight into migrant experiences have been writing of migrants lives in diverse forms of literature. These writings have provided insight into Nigerian migration issues - racial discrimination, hair politics et al. The paper uses postcolonial theory in studying conceptual cum thematic concerns of Chimamanda Adich...
ABSTRACT Scientific evidence on infant and young child feeding practices from developing countries show that progress is possible when effective strategies and sufficient resources are applied. However, significant gaps in complementary feeding continue to undermine child health. There is limited scientific data on complementary feeding practices and its relation to nutritional status of children aged 6-23 months old in Kenya’s urban slums. The study therefore investigated complementary fe...
ABSTRACT Various studies have captured different aspects of politics in colonial and post-independent Kenya. While these studies have contributed to our understanding of political processes and democratic transitions in Kenya, there are still some issues in Kenya’s politics that have not been given adequate scholarly attention and therefore require further investigation. In order to have a comprehensive analysis of Kenya’s political processes, there’s a need to investigate how ethnicity...
ABSTRACT This study examined the prevalence of psychosocial problems among persons living with glaucoma and also examined whether their socio-demographic characteristics significantly affect their levels of psychosocial distress. One hundred (100) patients with glaucoma were selected from two eye clinic in Accra as the sample for the study. The patients were administered questionnaires that measured their levels of depression, anxiety, stress and social distress associated with living glauco...
ABSTRACT Background: Ghana including 20 other countries in 2009 were earmarked for rapid PMTCT interventions scale-up within their primary care system for maternal and child health. This intervention became operationalized in June 2015 with the introduction of the PMTCT option B+ where HIV-positive women are initiated on lifelong ARVs regardless of their CD4 count upon immediate diagnosis of HIV and infants born to HIV-positive women receive daily zidovudine (AZT) for the first 4–6 weeks of...
ABSTRACTThis study was carried out at Kabwohe health center IV, Sheema district to determine the Prevalence and associated risk factors of ante-partum haemorrhage among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic. The researcher used simple random sampling to select her mothers to participate in the study. The mothers that participated in this study were 15 years and above and had genuine and mature answers according to the researchers view of the study.The questionnaires were constructed to ob...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out in Wakiso district within Wakiso Town council. It was carried out on the effects of domestic violence on child welfare. Its objectives were to find out the causes of domestic violence in the area, the effects of domestic violence on child welfare and family stability as well as the measures that could be put in place to solve the problem of domestic violence. The study used a descriptive research design to describe issues relating to domestic violence an...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between semantics and communication in Public Primary Schools in Sameta district, Kenya. The study was guided by four research objectives that were set to determine the profile of respondents in terms of gender, age, marital status, professional qualification, type of school and the period of stay in the school; the extent of Semantics; the level of communication and the significant relationship between Semantics and Commu...
ABSTRACT The study focused on the employee’s motivation and level of performance at Danish refugee council Puntland, Somalia. The specific objective of the study was 1) to determine the profile of the respondent, 2) to determine extent of Employees motivation in Danish Refugee council, 3) To determine the level of performance and 4) to determine if there is a significant relationship between the level of Employees motivation and level of performance in Danish Refugee Council Staff. The stud...
ABSTRACT In recent times there has been much discussion about the independence of Auditors; the leadership of the auditing standards board, the public oversight board, the independence standards board, and most recently the proposed independence rules promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have all attempted to clarify and strengthen auditor role on the financial statement for good decision making. Also in the medieval era financial statements were not necessary and h...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The rationale for this study is to provide a baseline information for male involvement in family planning programmes for the District Health Administration and N G O ’s the opportunity to redirect or improve upon their programmes in the Akatsi district. The study was cross - sectional study employing the use o f both qualitative and quantitative methods to study the characteristics and the extent o f the role o f men in family planning in the district. Data were collected ...
ABSTRACT Single parenthood is not a new phenomenon in the world although in Africa it is relatively new as it has been increasing in stages. Before the 1980‘s there were very few single parents and marriage was crucial to adults and separation was not normal. From the 1990‘s to recent period the world had experienced globalization through economic liberalization, easy communication, fast information system and globalization of culture where many youth are adoptive to American (western) wa...