ABSTRACT Inadequate sanitation and hygiene contribute to morbidity and mortality. The CommunityLed Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach is used by the Ministry of Health to increase access to sanitation and hygiene in Kenya. This study sought to assess the gender outcomes of the CLTS approach in three sub counties in Kenya. CLTS is considered successful in Kenya, yet its impact on men and women has limited literature available. Therefore, this study sought to document the impact on gender relati...
ABSTRACT The government of Kenya has increased budgetary allocation to the education sector in its effort to achieve universal primary education and in line with the Social Pillar of Vision 2030 and global Sustainable Development Goal number four of Universal Primary Education. The budget allocation increased from 6.2 percent of Gross Domestic Product in 2002/03 to 7.4 percent in 2005/06. It, however, dropped to 5.3 percent in 2014/15 and further to 5.24 in 2017/18. As a result, Gross Enrolm...
ABSTRACT It’s important to address disparities in access to health insurance among those in the informal sector of whom majority are poor and of marginalised groups in order to accelerate the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and also to identify interventions that will mitigate this situation. The purpose of the study was to determine the determinants of uptake of National Hospital Insurance Fund scheme by the informal sector in Kenya, which will be of significance to the ...
ABSTRACT The Kenyan government policy on personnel management (2005), requires every ministry to allocate 0.5% of its annual budget for staff training and development. Most ministries including MOCDM seem to have adhered to this requirement. However, it is not clear whether indeed the in service learning has had any effects on staff performance and service delivery according to the expectation of the training policy. Apart from the academic qualifications required for recruitment, it is not k...
ABSTRACT This study sought to examine the effect of devolution on healthcare administration in Gatanga Sub-county. The study sought to achieve three key objectives, namely (a) to assess the effects of devolution on healthcare financial planning, (b) to examine the effects of devolution on the management of healthcare facilities; and (c) to evaluate the effects of devolution on healthcare human resource management. A randomly selected sampled of 91 healthcare practitioners, 46 healthcare benef...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at gaining an in-depth understanding of gender dimensions in the worst forms of child labour in Thika west District in Kiambu County. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between factors, gender dimensions and children's involvement in worst forms of child labour. The study sought to establish how these dimensions exist in an endeavour to suggest solutions that can have a greater impact in the fight against worst forms of child labour. The st...
ABSTRACT Financial management models have impact on wealth maximization. Wealth is maximized when a positive net present value is earned on investments. The use of debt and equity forms the capital structure of a company. Recent empirical studies have focused on how debt or equity affects financial performance. There has not been adequate analysis of the combined effect of debt and equity in the same model on investment performance. Moreover, these studies have not provided conclusive result...
ABSTRACT Employee is a key element of the organization. The success or failure of the organization depends on employee‟s performance. Therefore, organizations are investing huge amount of money on employees‟ training. Despite the fact that training and development is well planned and systematic in the ministry of labour and social protection it still have issues of employees still not performing up to standard operating procedure in the work environment and labour turn over. Therefore, th...
ABSTRACT Continuous environmental degradation has resulted into increased environmental awareness that has led more companies to adopt green marketing strategies. Oserian Development Company limited is faced with many changes and an increasingly turbulent business environment which necessitates the adjustment of its strategic responses and come up with green marketing strategies for dealing with the ever deteriorating environment. The main aim of this research was to determine the effect of g...
Abstract Teacher turnover is high in schools. Teachers in Kenya have always portrayed lack of devotion at their places of work hence the high turnover rate. Therefore, identifying the factors and understanding who leaves, when, and under what conditions is important for policy formulations that target teacher retention. In addition it may possibly lead to solutions to reduce this problem. The general objective of this study was to analyse the factors influencing teacher turnover in public sec...
ABSTRACT Most reform programmes in the public sector that have been taking place in many developing countries over the last three decades are some of the structural adjustment programmes introduced by the world bank dating back to 1980s.These structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) never considered factors like capacity building, continuous innovation, customer centricity, interconnected government and how their mix as a strategy in public management would bring about the long awaited new daw...
ABSTRACT The Food Processing firms contribute enormously to economic development in Kenya However; a critical analysis indicates that food processing firms are experiencing declining performance. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the effect of strategic assets on performance of food processing firms in Nairobi City County, Kenya. Specifically the study sought to determine the effect of Information Technology Capability, Marketing capability, Research, Development Capability, and Op...
ABSTRACT Agricultural activities contribute about 33% of the East African Community‟s Gross Domestic Product (World Bank, 2009), 80 per cent of the populace depend on agriculture directly and indirectly for food, employment and income, while about 40 million people in EAC suffer from hunger. Intra-EAC trade is very low, that is, at 9 per cent of the total regional trade, but it is on upward trend. Agricultural trade accounts for over 40 per cent of the intra-EAC trade. This study investiga...
ABSTRACT Despite data availability on YEDF loan disbursements and repayment, empirical literature on the performances of youth-run enterprises from the loan across various counties in the country remains scanty, yet the basis of sustained YEDF disbursements ought to be youth empowerment. Against this backdrop, the main study objective was to examine the effect of YEDF on the performance of youth enterprises in Marsabit County, Kenya. More specifically, the study sought to determine the effect...
ABSTRACT Total quality management (TQM) has been proposed to improve business performance and received considerable attention in recent researches .Despite the recent research efforts on effects on total quality management, little work has been done on effects of total quality management implementation in performance of microfinance institutions in Kenya, particularly K-rep Development Agency(KDA). This study sought to establish effects of total quality management implementation in performanc...