ABSTRACT The topic was the effects of female genital mutilation and academic performance of girls in secondary schools in Bukwa sub-county, bukwo district. Purpose of the study The purpose of the study is to explore the relationship between Genital mutilation girls’ participation in secondary schools in in Bukwa sub-county Bukwo district. The Objectives of the study were to investigate the level of FGM factors affecting girls in in Bukwa subcounty Bukwo district, to find out the levels of g...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at gaining in-depth understanding of factors influencing the boy– child secondary education in the rice-growing region of Kirinyaga South District, Kirinyaga County, Kenya. Factors leading to this limited success had hitherto not been adequately investigated. The purpose of the study therefore was to identify those influences on the boy-child‟s secondary education in this district. The objectives of the study were to determine the boy-child school attendance tren...
ABSTRACT The Ugandan economy like most other developing countries has survived upon credit, grants and donations among other things. Credit in Uganda has been extended to business practitioners through commercial banks, non Bank financial intermediaries and non Governmental organizations. However it is believed that there is a rate of default in repayment of borrowed funds from financial institutions and especially so in the agricultural sector. The Main Objective of the study therefore sets ...
ABSTRACTThe need for increase productivity in our industries totally cannot be over emphasized. This is evidenced by the development of new technology to the inquest level. It is worthy to note that to achieve this level, man is needed in concert with other resources.However, Man’s behaviour cannot be objectively provided given the complexity of intervening variable that to a large extent determined his behaviour. But there is a general belief that the ability of man to push up productivity...
With enormous human and natural resources potentials, Nigeria occupies a strategic position in the development of the African continent. The Niger Delta ravaging conflicts remains one of the biggest challenges of the democratic era since 1999, which is the main concern of this book. Through qualitative analysis and evaluation of the theory of grievance and collective action and that of social deprivation model, the book examines why the continued proliferation of militant groups in the Niger ...
ABSTRACT Record engenders competence in management and maintains the trend in the history of learning and improvement processes. NEMA has been talking disaster related issues through the establishment of concrete structures and measure such as the education or the public in order to raise their level of awareness and reduce the effect of disasters in the country. The local government are the first responders, then the state and finally federal. The system of record keeping is also important i...
ABSTRACT/PROPOSALI choose to write on Drug and trafficking because it has assumed a global concern, even in the sporting sphere, it is being questioned. The press has devoted lots of its spaces and airtime to attack the monster its impact is very disturbing and divesting without concerted efforts of all and sundry it may be a scourge that may threaten the entire world for the rest of this millennium and beyond. The phenomenon is a problem for youths everywhere nowadays, parents, teachers an...
ABSTRACT This was a descriptive cross-sectional study to ascertain the health and environmental implications of small-scale gold mining operations in the Bolgatanga District of the Upper East Region. Small-scale gold mining started actively in an area designated the Small-Scale Gold Mining Area about two (2) years ago. The three main types of gold mining operations were alluvial, colluvial and lode gold mining. Alluvial and colluvial gold mining involved both sexes but lode gold mining was th...
ABSTRACT The past two decades has witnessed high promotion of microfinance institutions by both the government of Kenya and non-governmental organizations which are targeting smallholder farmers. Despite increase in these microfinance institutions, coffee yield among smallholder farmers has remained low. This has negatively affected smallholder coffee farmers’ earnings from the coffee enterprise and also their economic wellbeing due to loss of income. Information on the impact of microfinan...
ABSTRACT Devolution in Kenya is about decentralising political, financial and administrative powers to forty seven counties. Kenya had practised devolution through the one year Majimbo government which lasted in 1964, before the highly centralised provincial administration was established. The provincial administration was centralised and gained control over all decentralized ministerial functions in the country; as an extension of the executive office of the president in the field. The Const...
Effective police investigation is a prerequisite to effective prosecution of any judicial proceeding. Police investigation into sexual crimes against women has been a problem both in developed and developing countries as considerable women population suffer violation of their rights and fundamental freedoms which is criminal in nature. The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of police investigation on prosecution of sexual crimes against women in Starehe Sub-County, Nairobi ...
ABSTRACT Globally, healthcare systems are experiencing increasing fiscal demographic and consumer pressure. There have been metamorphic changes in the recent past in terms of healthcare delivery. The planning, design and final architectural expression in health care is reflective of the gradual shift in outlook of healthcare institutions from merely treating the sick to a concerted approach to harness healthy living. This has been triggered by globalization, increased expectations of seekers...
ABSTRACT Lack of latrines remain a widespread health and environmental hazard in many developing countries. Globally, 2.5 billion people do not use improved latrine facilities and in Kenya, over five million people are forced to resort to open defecation due to lack of latrines resulting in the prevalence of sanitation related diseases such as diarrhoea. The study aimed at determining latrine use and associated factors among the rural community members in Samburu East Sub-County, Samburu Coun...
This study was to determine factors that influence leadership succession in family owned businesses in Kenya. The overall research problem that was addressed in this study was that despite family owned businesses forming a large part of the economies around the globe, such businesses fail during transitions from one generation to another. Although there are many possible explanations that suggest why such firms are unable to perpetuate themselves into future generations, leadership succession...
ABSTRACT Poverty is general phenomenon in less developed countries including Nigeria. It is a common problem that cannot be easily wiped out but can be alleviated through concerted effort by stake holders. The problem of poverty has brought about low standard of living of people in both rural and urban area that attention of individual, Federal, States and Local Government has been drawn to alleviate it to better the living standard of the rural area. This work was undertaken to look into t...