ABSTRACT A Kenya National Bureau of Statistics survey of 2009 shows that personal wealth of the top 10% of Kenyans increased on average five-fold over the past decade. The Society for International Development noted in its annual report of 2009 that the gap between this group and the bottom 20% of Kenyans is growing. While we have seen an upsurge in corporate social responsibility and there is anecdotal evidence of benevolence to family and friends, the question remains why this vast increas...
ABSTRACT Corporate governance is considered an important requirement for operations for any organization as it enhances out effectiveness of Boards, transparency and disclosure, accountability, risk management, internal controls, ethical leadership and good corporate citizenship. Nairobi City County is one of the devolved governments being county number 47 in Kenya. The county is charged with the role of bringing services to the people through the devolved functions. The demand for better ser...
ABSTRACT Inspection has been a mechanism particularly associated with schools. Traditionally, it has been used to monitor the quality of teaching as well as general aspects of schools. In Kenya, education reforms often fail to achieve desired outcomes due to ineffective and inefficient supervision. As a result, the Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Education came up with the Department of Quality Assurance and Standards charged with the duty of maintaining and improving educational...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of bureaucratic processes on the public service delivery, a case of Mandera County. This was a descriptive study focusing on process of implementing and results thereof. A case study was conducted in the department of Lands in Mandera East. The study was guided by the following research objectives: to identify bureaucratic challenges which consumers encounter in public service delivery in Mandera County, to determine how bureaucrat...
ABSTRACT The study on job evaluation and employee performance in the public sector set out to investigate process its contribution to employee output in the public sector. The study is anchored on the assumption that employee evaluation determines the level of pay and therefore motivation to increase performance as the next period of evaluation approaches. The study aimed to investigate the EFFECT of job evaluation on employee output. It further investigated the pact of job evaluation on...
ABSTRACT In the past, Kenya has experienced changes in its investment policy formulation process and strategic trade and industrial policies have been mainly influenced by the changing political set-up of the country. However Kenya is faced with a number of challenges which include structural reforms’ poor economic policies and inconsistent efforts, corruption and bad governance, public services deteriorations made the foreign investors to be discouraged since 1980s when things began to cha...
ABSTRACT Taxes are an involuntary charge levied by the government on individual workers income, business profits and on transactions of goods and services. Unfortunately, Kenya does not collect all the taxes that it ought to. This is mostly attributed to high levels of tax non-compliance. In Kenya, the biggest block of taxpayers on the business sector are the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which are estimated to be at 34.4% of total businesses in Kenya and they account for 77% of employm...
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...
ABSTRACT In spite of the laws that have been enacted specifically to curb FGM practices and national administrators deployed and authorized to ensure that FGM is curbed. Kenya is still ranked amongst the top countries with high pre valence rates of FGM practices. Kajiado county ranks third in Kenya with the highest prevalence rates on FGM practices, one is left to wonder why the continued practice and whether the administrators embrace the law and enforce the punishment stipulated. To answer ...
ABSTRACT Refugee support is an imperative aspect in government administration of affairs regarding asylum seekers. Effective administration of refugee affairs requires an efficient support program that coordinates with other agencies to oversee quality service delivery to refugees in the camp. Refugee population has continued to soar in Kenya. There exists little information regarding administration of refugee affairs in Kenya‘s growing refugee camps. There is an urgent need to assess the i...
ABSTRACT Fiscal decentralization and the need to decentralize power to the local community has gained impetus lately due because it is considered as one of the most important forces shaping governance and development today. The resultant public engagement that arises from the fiscal decentralization increases the support of the development projects by the citizens, democratization process of decision making and also enhances official accountability. The objective of the study was to analyse t...
ABSTRACT Citizens are educated and empowered to clearly understand their rights and responsibilities in electoral processes and find out how they can take the decisive actions in elections that in turn inform effective governance by strengthening the ability of citizens and civil society groups to organize themselves, interact with others and make their voices heard by those in power. However, in spite of the fact that voter education is geared towards having free, fair, and verifiable electi...
Abstract Voting behavior has been a factor of interest in political science studies. With the youth making the largest percentage of the population and registered voters in Kenya and the world, they still remain underrepresented in leadership spheres and their participation in governance is minimal. This study sought to understand their voting behavior considering how cultural factors, ethnicity, intergenerational factors, political ideologies and legal literacy determined voting behavior of ...
ABSTRACT Pre-primary education plays a pivotal role in setting the foundation for better outcomes in post-nursery education. Globally, attention has shifted to how pre-primary education is being implemented both at the national and sub-national levels, with greater financial investments being channelled towards its improvement. In Africa, the quest for universal basic education has forced many countries to rethink how they are implementing pre-primary education, considering that basic educati...
ABSTRACT Public participation is viewed as a mechanism by which the citizens contribute towards governance and service delivery. This study has taken interest in public participation with a bias towards service delivery at the County Government of Nairobi. The study was informed by continuous lawsuits and complaints that the County Government of Nairobi was not considering the views of the public before developing its services. The objectives will be to: examine the awareness of public partic...