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Climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation assessment in East Africa.
(University of Nairobi., 2006)
Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation studies in Kenya
were undertaken through two projects namely:
Kenya Country Study Project that was funded by United
States 1994-1995
GEF funded UNDP Project entitled “Capacity ...
Socio-economic dimensions of conservation of wetlands in African dry lands: A case study of River Ewaso Ngiro basin in southern Kenya
(2006)
Wetlands that occur in arid and semi-arid areas have unique characteristics and support unique biodiversity. The permanent wetlands are relatively small and isolated by large areas of dry land. There are however, numerous ...
Science and Technology Capacity in the Framework of Millennium Development Goals: Proceedings of the National Workshop in Commemoration of the Scientific Revival Day of Africa
(2006)
The millennium Development Goals (MDG's) are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 in response to the world's main challenges. The eight goals are: 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, 2: Achieve universal primary Education, ...
Actuarial valuation of temperature derivatives
(15-03-13)
Weather affects our daily lives as well as choices. We define the term weather derivative. It is a
new class of investment that is yet to gain ground in Africa since the underlying security
(weather) is not a trade able ...
Successful Implementation of Digital Village Projects: A Factor to Economic Empowerment at the Community Level
(2012)
This article reveals that the concept of education as a process of growth is a difficult one. Philosophers are, therefore, justified in being weary when pondering over its meaning, both in theory and practice. By way of ...
Developing an annotated corpus for Gıkuyu using language-independent machine learning techniques
(2006)
Networking the development of computational resources for African languages can be greatly advanced if researchers aim to develop
tools that are to a large extent language-independent and therefore reusable for other ...
“Smart Climate Change” for Professional Societies Workshop Theme: Is a Climate Smart Kenya Possible?
(University of Nairobi, 11-05-12)
Community Centered Collaborative HCI Design / Research In Developing Countries
(University of Nairobi, 2014)
We are proposing a SIG as an extended forum to build a sustainable network and resource repository for practitioners and researchers engaged in community centered collaborative design in developing countries. In structured ...