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Role of Pension Backed Mortgages in Affordable Housing in Kenya
(Africa Habitat Review, 2021-10-12)Access to affordable housing is a challenge to many public sector employees who retire without a home despite having worked and saved towards pension. One of the initiatives by the Government of Kenya (GOK) to increase access ... -
The role of professionals and professional institutes, in settlement upgrading
(Department of architecture and building science, University of Nairobi, 2006) -
The Role of Rural-Urban Linkages in Spatial Planning in Kenya , in United Nations Centre for Regional Planning (ed) The Role of Small Urban Centres in Economic Recovery and Regional Development. Nagoya: UNCRD Research project on Small Urban Centres, Proje
(University of NairobiCollege of Architecture and Engineering, 1997) -
The Role of Servant Leadership in Project Management in Kenya
(2014)Leadership is believed to be important to project success despite a limited number of studies on the topic. Servant leadership, for example, has never been studied in the context of the project environment or project ... -
Role of Shelter Cooperatives in the Provision of affordable housing in Kenya:
(2010)Conventional shelter policies that focus on slum clearance, public housing, sites-and-services, upgrading of core dwellings and government assisted self-help are inadequate to meet the growing needs of the urban poor in ... -
Role of Smallholder Farmers in Food Supply to Urban Consumers During Covid-19 Pademic: Case of Kinale and Magumu Farmlands
(AFRICA HABITAT REVIEW, 2023-10)This paper presents findings from a study that analysed the role of smallholder farming in food supply while revealing the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on smallholder farmers as they complied with containment measures ... -
The Role Of Stakeholders In Land Reform.
(Real Estate and Construction Management, University of Nairobi, 2011) -
The Role of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya
(1997)he objectives of the Institution are two-fold: To secure the advancement and acquisition of that knowledge which constitutes the profession of a survey and, To promote the general interests of the profession ... -
The Role of Women in Rural Land Management and the Impact of HIV/AIDS
(2006)Recent research conducted in Lesotho, Kenya and South Africa has revealed that HIV/Aids will seriously impact on a range of land issues as a direct result of very high infection rates in these countries. HIV/Aids will ... -
Root tensile strength of 3 typical plant species and their contribution to soil shear strength; a case study: Sasumua Backslope, Nyandarua District, Kenya
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Civil and Construction Engineering, 2011-04)The effect of root reinforcement depends on the morphological characteristics of the root system, the tensile strength of individual roots, the soil-root cohesive st rength, and the distribution of the root system in ... -
Rural Planning In Regional Development: The Kenyan Experience Discovery And Innovation
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2001)In the past five decades or so development was conceived in terms of economic growth and it was assumed that the underdeveloped countries would pass through a number of stages of economic growth similar to those which the ... -
Rural structures in the tropics: design and development
(Department of Environmental and Biosystems Engineering, University of Nairobi, 2011) -
Rural-Urban Dualism and Ineffective Land use Control Instruments at the Rural- Urban Interface
(2008)The colonial policy of racial segregation in Kenya divided the space economy into urban and rural. The rural areas were resided by Africans and the main economic activities were agriculture and livestock, Settlement.s were ... -
Rural-urban dualism and ineffective land use control instruments at the rural- urban Interface
(2009)Hitherto, land use planning in Kenya was practiced in the colonial urban areas and the scheduled highlands but not in the African markets and rural reserves. This then created favorable land use patterns in the European ... -
Rural-Urban Linkages in Regional Development.
(2000)evelopment theory and practice have focused on either “urban” or “rural” issues with little consideration of the interrelations between the two. By contrast, several empirical studies show that the link- ages between ... -
Rural-Urban Relations, Household Income Diversification and Agricultural Productivity
(1991)Does rising income from agriculture drive the growth of nonfarm activities, or does increased income from nonfarm activities spur the growth of agriculture? This paper looks at the role of nonfarm income in enabling ... -
Rural/Urban Linkages in Kenya and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Perspective
(1997)Sub-Saharan Africa is steadily becoming less rural in character. For decades development thinking has prescribed industrialization as the virtuous path leading away from economic dependence on agriculture. But Africa's ... -
Rwanda Irrigation Masterplan (RIMP)
(Envrironmental and Biosystems Engineering, 2010)