ABSTRACT Despite the MOE efforts to provide safety standards and guidelines, educational institutions in Kenya had a long standing history of ghastly disasters. These led to damage of property, injuries and worst of all loss of precious lives, through incidents of fire and other risk situations. The purpose of this study was to establish factors influencing schools‟ compliance to safety standards guidelines in Kitui Central sub-county, Kitui County. The specific objectives of the study were...
ABSTRACT Local authorities generally are autonomous bodies governed by pieces of legislation and derive their powers from these governing legislations. Rural local authorities in Zimbabwe are governed by the constitution, Rural District Councils Act and the Traditional Leaders act in particular. It is in the Rural District Councils Act where the sources of revenue for these local authorities are provided. The study therefore sought to identify the challenges that rural local authorities face...
ABSTRACT The main aim of the study is to examine the effectiveness of development control mechanisms employed by local authorities in controlling illegal settlements. The specific objectives include: to examine various development control mechanisms used by the City of Harare to control and stop illegal land invasions and settlements, to analyse the influences of development control towards sustainable cities, to assess the extent of community participation in the implementation of developme...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine the uptake of Results Based Management (RBM) in the public sector institutions focusing on Umzingwane District in Matebeleland South Province. Service delivery in the Zimbabwean public sector institutions had deteriorated both in quality and speed to appalling levels and this had correspondingly triggered outcry from the general public. To check this trend and re-invent public sector operations, the Government adopted RBM in 2005. Unfortunately the absenc...
Abstract This study examined corruption, university governance and development with focus on the University of Nigeria. This is because governance plays a critical role in the success of any organization, especially higher education which is the bedrock of national development. The study is a descriptive qualitative analysis, while data was collected through secondary sources. Systems theory served as the theoretical framework. The findings show that there have been systematic decline and col...
ABSTRACT Zimbabwe is rated as one of the poorest countries in the world, a scary fact considering that the country is endowed with vast mineral resources like diamonds, natural gas and gold which if effectively used could make it have one of the strongest economies on the continent. In order to make this possible, there is a need to ensure that growth at a local level is fostered by the central government and this growth should be uniform so as to ensure that there is no concentration of deve...
Abstract The research sought to assess the cash management systems in Chegutu Municipality. Chegutu Municipality has its set vision, mission, objectives, core values and goals that guide their daily operations but there were insurmountable cash flow challenges being faced leading to the council failing to meet the set objectives. The failure to meet objectives lead the research to seek to enquire on the challenges being faced in cash management and to identify the strategies that are being us...
ABSTRACT Delivering effective governance have been identified as a steering wheel for development and developing countries have been encouraged to be effective and efficient in the provision of services .However many developing countries especially in Africa are characterised by poor governance and unethical practices which then impedes development and local economic growth. There have been efforts by international organisations such as the United Nations and SADC to try and reduce the injust...
ABSTRACT The study examined women participation in the management of community water in the Offinso North District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The study was motivated by the fact that not enough literature is available on the subject in Ghana and the Offinso District in particular. The concurrent mixed method design was used for the study. The study population consisted of household heads, staff of CWSA and members of the DWST, assembly members, and members of WATSAN committees. A multis...
ABSTRACT The study seeks to investigate into social infrastructure and its contribution to rural livelihood in Mpohor District. To achieve the objective, various methods were used to collect data these include; Questionnaires, Observations, and Interviews. The findings of the the study was that; social infrastructure contribute to the socio-economical lives of the rural dwellers, it provides employment, it reduces migration and immigration in the rural communities, absent and inadequate lead...
ABSTRACT Discrimination against persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the realm of employment has been a real problem especially in developing countries such as Ghana. It is to avert this that, over the years the campaign for productivity and inclusion for all persons has been launched in the global sphere. These interventions notwithstanding, PWDs are often perceived as less productive compared with persons without disability. This perception has existed for decades with little theoretical and...
ABSTRACT In developing countries, various agricultural credit schemes have been implemented by both government and civil society organizations as a way of overcoming the challenges of access to credit by the actors in agricultural value chains, particularly farmers. This study used the cross sectional research design to examine how effective and efficient the Masara N‟Arziki and the NRGP Agricultural Credit schemes are in meeting the credit needs of farmers in the Wa West District of the U...
ABSTRACT The activities of small scale mining (SSM) companies have come under great scrutiny in Ghana due to bad public image and perception, threatening the sustainability of the sector. The study therefore assessed the extent of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability adherence by SSM companies operating in the East Akim Municipality. The study further investigated the extent of CSR existence in the organizational policies of SSM companies, analyzed the pattern of CSR prac...
ABSTRACT In Ghana like in other countries, Business Development Services has been acknowledged as a pro- poor development intervention because of its special program models in meeting the required needs of the rural poor especially women. This study analysed how dawadawa processors’ access to Business Development Service under Business Advisory Centre can economically empower them in the Chereponi District. The study was guided by Ester Boserup’s WID theory combined with Schultz’s Huma...
ABSTRACT The most worrying issue to customers of the Mobile Telecom networks today is service quality and customer satisfaction. A lot of studies have been done in this area with many targeting service quality issues from the service providers‟ perspective. This has resulted into several measures by these Telecom network companies to improve on the services they render. The National Communications Authority (NCA) has taken several steps in terms of warnings and fines as well as license rev...