ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess financial motivation and health services delivery in health institutions under the local government authority. Ilala Municipality was taken as the case study, name of the healthy facility which were involved are Amana, Mnazi Mmoja, Buguruni, Magereza Ukonga and IDC Clinic. Randomly selected were 80 respondents as a sample size of the study so as to get relevant and reliable information concerning the study and probability and non probability s...
ABSTRACT This study sought to capture information on the mitigation of farmer - herder conflicts in two villages, namely Mbuyuni and Uturo in Mbarali District, Tanzania. The study was conducted to achieve the following specific objectives: (i) to evaluate the functions of related institutions and stakeholders towards conflicts resolution and management. (ii) To assess the impacts of land conflicts among the land users and (iii) to suggest alternative strategies and /or mechanisms for mitigat...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study was to examine the contribution of NGOs towards improving the living standards of the local communities. The study was conducted at Bwembwera Area Development Programme (ADP) in Muheza District. The research used a case study approach and collected data using interviews and documentary evidence. Participants involved in the study were ADP staff, teachers, peasants, village executive officers and health officers. The data collected were analyzed using ...
ABSTRACT Research by scholars and experiences gathered by practitioners have established that real estate development requires multiple processes that are often risky, lengthy and complicated. This is because there exist a lot of obstacles in real estate development. In spite of the seemingly obstacles in the real estate sector, real estate development projects also present lucrative investment opportunities for estate developers. In the Ghanaian context, real estate development is bedevile...
ABSTRACT This study intended to investigate on the role of ICT in improving educational management and administration in Dodoma Municipality. The main objectives of the study were to investigate on the application of ICT in data and information storage for education management, to determine secondary school teacher’s performance of ICT application in educational management and to determine the barriers that hinder secondary school teacher’s practices of the ICT in educational management....
ABSTRACT Most microfinance institutions globally, have majority of their customers as women with few men or even in some cases, no men at all. The study investigated the reasons for the gender imbalances in the microfinance industries guided by microfinance loan repayment determinants. A census of 74 microfinance institutions from four districts of Accra; Tema Metropolitan, Ashaiman Municipal, Dangbe East District and finally, Ningo/Prampra District Assembly were interviewed. A sample of 370...
Abstract The objectives of this study are two folds: firstly to explore the magnitude of catastrophic expenditure, and secondly to determine its contributing factor,s including the protective impact of the voluntary community based health insurance schemes in Tanzania. The study covered 274 respondents. Study findings have shown that the estimated poverty line was Tsh.35,064.6 (US$21.25). Of the sampled respondents, 30.3% experienced catastrophic expenditure in the range of 10-20% of their c...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at assessing factors that influence revenue collection in local government authorities. The study was conducted in 7 wards of Mbeya City namely; Ruanda, Iyunga, Ilomba, Forest, Igawilo, Sisimba and Nsalaga. The research used a case study approach and collected data using interviews, questionnaire, documentarysources and FGD. Participants involved in the study were the principal income earners in the households. The data collected were analyzed qualitatively and quant...
ABSTRACT The extant literature has under-explored the factors that determine construction performance among small scale building contractors in Ghana. Using the data set of 50 questionnaire received from respondents in the sector, this study examines the determinants that affect construction performance. The descriptive statistics as well as the analysis of variance (ANOVA) approach was used to make inferences from the data collected. The results indicate that the factors of performance of s...
ABSTRACT For the last three decades, citizen participation has become an increasing aspect of and as a key of development within the realm of good governance across the world. It has gained ground and has been embraced in political, economic and social spheres of life. Governments emphasize participatory approaches in the development activities that intend to benefit a given community. This research aimed to explore the role of local authority in promoting citizen participation toward develo...
ABSTRACT This thesis uses the fifth and sixth rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS) conducted in 2005-2006 and 2012-2013, respectively, to examine the themes of education, inequality and earnings in Ghana. Three key objectives are pursued. The first objective is to assess how educational attainment, measured by the average years of schooling, relates to inequality in education. The second objective is to examine how education influences inequality in earnings through an assessme...
ABSTRACT This study which was conducted between October and December 2017, explored the opportunities and constraints for attracting private investors in Wami-Mbiki WMA in Bagamoyo District. The study guided by three specific objectives; (i) to determine investment opportunities found in Wami-Mbiki WMA that can attract investors, (ii) to examine factors for lack of private investors in Wami-Mbiki and (iii) to develop a win-win public-private partnerships (PPPs) framework for Wami-Mbiki WMA. ...
ABSTRACT The menace of Political Insecurity is a major challenge in developing countries and more grave in the West Africa sub-region. This study sought to appraise two Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Protocols; the Protocol on Conflict Prevention (1999) and the Democracy and Good Governance Protocol (2001), and how they address the Political Security challenge in the sub-region. The study adopted the qualitative research approach. Both primary and secondary data were used...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at investigating the role of human resource management in redressing employees‟ turnover in the higher learning institutions a case study of the University of Dodoma and St John University of Tanzania. A general objective was to examine the role of human resource management, in redressing employee‟s turnover, in the higher learning institutions. Specific objectives were to determine the magnitude of employee‟s turnover at the University of Dodoma and St. John U...
ABSTRACT This study examined the influence of attitudes and personal values on willingness to remain in rural areas among Human Resource for Health (HRH) in Tanzania. The study was conducted in Kigoma and Tabora regions as they have the lowest HRH densities, where, two districts were selected from each region. The study employed explanatory cross-sectional survey using data collected in one point of time. The study involved 230 participants who responded to questionnaire and 11 key informant...