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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 ...
Issues In Grid Computing In The Context Of Education
(2008)
Grid computing and e-Education are areas that are separately, attracting interest of several
researchers. Grid computing is concerned with provision of computing and data storage
services to a wide group of users backed ...
Supporting Entrepreneurship Education in East Africa
(2013-02)
The University of Nairobi School of Business and Plymouth University Business School were commissioned by the UK Department for International Development to assess the capacity of business schools and other institutions ...
Female education, adolescent sexuality and the risk of sexually transmitted infection in Ariaal Rendille culture
(2001)
Sub-Saharan Africa today features the worlds highest levels of fertility, infant and child mortality and sexually transmitted infectious diseases, with the last including Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome(AIDS) (National ...
Role of traditional birth attendants in the dissemination of advice on nutrition
(1992)
Nutritionists conducted a rapid assessment of nutrition advice dissemination to pregnant and lactating mothers by 35 traditional birth attendants (TBAs) after they underwent 3 training sessions in Samburu district, Kenya. ...
The effect of education on the timing of marriage in Kenya
(2005)
This paper investigates the effect of education on the timing of marriage among Kenyan women and the relative effects of education across generations of women. Data used is drawn from the 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health ...
Provision of Sanitary Towels to Needy Girls in Public Primary Schools in Kenya
(University of Nairobi., 2011)
One of the goals of education is to achieve gend
er equity towards empowerment. This is in line
with Education for All (EFA)
and Millennium Development Go
als (MDGs). Social cultural
economic and political factors ...
A Kenyan perspective on the use of animals in science education and scientific research in Africa and prospects for improvement
(2011)
Animal experimentation is common in Africa, a region that accords little priority on animal protection in comparison to economic and social development. The current study aimed at investigating the prevalence of animal ...