Browsing Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD) by Subject "Kenya"
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The civil society and humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons in Africa
(Institute of Diplomacy & International Studies (IDIS), 2005-10)This dissertation is premised on and informed by primary and secondary data based on the civil society and humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Africa, focusing on a case study of the Catholic ... -
Computerized land information system as a tool of land record management
(Department of Land Development, University of Nairobi, 2003-10)This project thesis presents a conceptual framework for a land information system that would result in increased revenue collection from the land rent section of the Department of Lands, Ministry of Lands and Settlement. ... -
An evaluation of the cadastral system in Kenya and a strategy for its modernization
(Department of Geospatial and Space Technology, 2013-08)The Cadastral system in Kenya was established in 1903 to support land alienation for the white settlers who had come into the country in the early part of the 20th Century. In the last hundred years, the system has remained ... -
Liberalized agricultural markets and their impact on human welfare in Koibarak location, Marakwet district Kenya
(Department of Sociology, University of Nairobi, 1998)The primary objective of the study was to assess the impact of liberalized agricultural markets on human welfare in Koibarak Location, Marakwet District, Kenya. And its secondary objective was to examine other factors ... -
Planning and management for storm water and sullage in environmentally vulnerable informal low income urban communities
(Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Nairobi, 1996-10)This study was carried out in Daraja Mbili within Kisii municipality and concerns environmental consequences of uncontrolled stormwater and sullage in environmentally vulnerable quasi-legal urban low income settlements. ... -
Planning for domestic water supply in Mugutha sub-location of Ruiru municipality in Kenya
(Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Nairobi, 2006-07)The Kenya natural endowment of freshwater is limited. It is estimated that currently only 15 per cent of the country's potential yield of renewable fresh water resource has been developed. Currently, access to safe water ... -
Recreational utilization of open spaces in Nairobi city, Kenya
(Department of Geography, University of Nairobi, 1990-07)There is mountlng research on the general process of urbanlsatlon ln the less developed countr1es (LOCS). However 11ttle attentlon has been paid to the role of recreat10n ln thelr urban centres. Research on urban ...