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Factors Influencing Education and Age at First Marriage in an Arid Region: The Case of the Borana of Marsabit district, Kenya
(2000-04)
The role of education in development is widely recognized in many countries. However, the value placed on formal education differs from one community to the next. In this paper I argue that among the Borana pastoralists ...
Women In Conflict Management: How Traditional Roles And Perceptions Have Been A Hindrance
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
One of the major challenges we continue to face at
the close of the twentieth century is the real
involvement of women in all sectors of society. For
a long time this has been considered as a
small issue. But with the ...
Financing Medical Care through Insurance: Policy Lessons from Household- and Community-Level Analysis in Kenya
(2002)
Medical insurance is an important feature of a health care system in which patients pay user charges to get medical treatment. Without insurance, many people would not afford acceptable care in a fee-for-service system. ...
History of Paleontological research in the Narok District of Kenya,
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
The geology of the Narok District of southern Kenya was first studied in the 1960s. From 1994 through 2005 more extensive paleontological and geological research was conducted on a series of late Miocene sediments of the ...
Determinants And Consequences Of Transaction Costs Of Microfinance And Their Impact On Rural Poor Borrowers’ Incomes
(University of Nairobi, 2006)
Many studies have approached the issue of transactions costs of microfinance from the
institutional perspective with a view to drive recommendations on viable microfinance lending institutions. Only few studies have ...
Comparison of milk culture, direct and nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with fecal culture based on samples from dairy herds infected with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis
(2009)
Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the etiologic agent of
Johne's disease in cattle and other farm ruminants, and is also a suspected
pathogen of Crohn's disease in humans. Development of diagnostic ...
Gender considerations in constitution-making
(International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003)
Factors Associated With Self-reported Unprotected Anal Sex Among Male Sex Workers In Mombasa, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2008)
OBJECTIVES:
: To identify social and behavioral characteristics associated with sexual risk behaviors among male sex workers who sell sex to men in Mombasa, Kenya.
METHODS:
: Using time-location sampling, 425 men ...