ABSTRACT The research sought to explore that provision of health services can be used as a solution to development challenges thus enabling the improvement of the lives of the rural people. Local Authorities who have adopted provision of health services have been treating it as a social goal and not a development goal hence in turn they have been failing to implement successful development initiatives in rural areas. The research was based on one broad objective which is to establish the exte...
ABSTRACT This study is an investigation on how marriages can influence early child birth registration and hamper opportunities for children. The study looks at the 4 types of marriages in Zimbabwe and how they can work for and against early child birth registration.The four types of marriages are Civil marriage 5:11, Registered customary marriage 5:07, unregistered customary marriage and cohabitation. The study compares registered marriages versus the unregistered customary marriages on birth...
ABSTRACT In an ardent attempt to put their natural resources into better use, developed and developing countries have given a very high priority to the planning and development of high-level manpower wince the end of World War II. The university, being the capetone of any country's educational system and the main supplier of graduates and allied high-level manpower, undoubtedly assumes a strategic position in any serious endeavour to develop highly skilled personnel. Consequently in Nigeria, ...
ABSTRACT This study explores the plight of the unaccompanied refugee minors from a human rights perspective. A case study of Tongogara refugee camp is used for purposes of this study. The human rights approach used explores the refugee minor’s plight from the perspective of the unaccompanied children themselves, that is, how they view their difficult situation becomes very important. The study exposes the importance of involving the unaccompanied refugee minors in making decisions on i...
ABSTRACT The study focused on the determinants of bank interest rate spreads in Zimbabwe’s commercial banking sector during the multiple currency period from 2009 to 2012. The study was based on the hypothesis that bank interest rate spreads are determined by banks specific factors and macro economic factors. Several theories including the Loanble funds, Liquidity preference, Loan pricing, Signaling arguments and Credit market theories were propounded to explain the determinants of interest...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study research was to analyse the effects of cost cutting on financial performance using a case of Zesa National Training Centre. The major issue that gave rise and prompted the researcher to study across this area was the increased levels of recurring losses in the organisation of which no increase in financial performance was being marked. The study employed a mixed approach in answer the research questions which were both quantitative and qualitative. The...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study was to evaluate the shifting from insourcing to outsourcing of transport and distribution services in response to humanitarian emergencies at UNICEF, Zimbabwe. The specific objectives of the study were to: identify the drivers of outsourcing, determine the influence of outsourcing on the performance of UNICEF Zimbabwe, evaluate the extent to which transport outsourcing impact on the performance of UNICEF Zimbabwe and establish the influence of transpor...
ABSTRACT The paper examines the role of food security policies that have been inaugurated or put in place to ensure food security and nutrition in Zimbabwe since 2000 till date. Such an idea has been necessitated culminating from Zimbabwe experiencing severe food shortage of crop and meet production due to continued early termination of rains (droughts), effects of the fast track land reform, banning of humanitarian aid societies, reduced socio-economic development, increased mortality and mo...
ABSTRACT The researcher focused on the effects of contract farming practice on production output in cotton industry. The cotton companies of Zimbabwe has experience a decline in production output. The study also gives the challenges faced by the companies in cotton sector and this was done by focusing on the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco). The researcher attempt to answer objectives like the effects of contract farming on production output on production output as well as challenges affec...
ABSTRACT Inadequate state subsidy, and purely monetary interpretation of the private social rates of return from state Universities combined with the view that not all beneficiaries of public subsidies are students from poor background has led to a situation where there is a demand that the beneficiaries, that is parents and students be made to share the cost of providing University education. Furthermore, the need for cost effectiveness and supplementary income to argument public subsidy als...
ABSTRACT This research sought to investigate the debt management practices as a performance measure at Harare Polytechnic College. The college under study was facing liquidity problems due to the ineffective debt management methods employed. There has been an increase in debtors’ balances from 2014 to 2016 due to the college failing to recover debts from the students who owed the college and this affected the college financially. The researcher used the qualitative approach to carry out the...
ABSTRACT The study sought to find out the effects of intimate partner violence on the wellbeing of male survivors at Padare Men‟s forum on Gender, in Mutare. The researcher reviewed relevant literature, theories, as well as previous studies from which the knowledge gap was identified. A qualitative research approach was employed and a phenomological research design was used. The target population comprised of male survivors of intimate-partner violence. Stratified random sampling was used t...
ABSTRACT The thrust of the research was to evaluate the impact of Decentralised Information System on the quality of Financial Reporting, case of Size Investments. The time frame of the research was 2011 to 2014. Objectives of the study were put in place to assess how the manual accounting system of accounting reporting, to evaluate the relevance of integrating Information System at the SBUs and Accounts Department and its impact on quality of financial reporting and to establish the relation...
ABSTRACT In many African countries, women are marginalised in terms of their access to capital means of production, employment opportunities as well as credit facilities. In Zimbabwe, like many African countries empowering women through enlarging their access to finance has been viewed as a means of reducing women’s abject poverty, empowering them through reducing their vulnerability and improving their welfare. This study sought to find out if the government initiative Women Development Fu...
ABSTRACT The researcher sought to assess the constraints faced by Beitbridge Town Council in the budgeting process. In Chapter one the researcher focuses on the background of the study. Beitbridge Town Council has its set vision, mission, objectives, core-values and goals that guard their daily operations but they were insurmountable constraints being faced in the budgeting process leading to the council failing to meet the set objectives. Research objectives are stated whereby the researcher...