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Privatisation of public enterprises in COMESA: An exploration of approaches and strategies: the case of the privatization of Telkom Kenya
(UON, 2006)This thesis investigates Kenya's approach to the privatization process through an exploration of Telkom Kenya's (TKL) unfolding privatization. The thesis research identifies outlines and documents the developments in Kenya's ... -
China’s Approach to Development in Africa: A Case Study of Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway
(Council on Foreign Relatioons, 2021-10-13)China has become a major donor to African states over the past twenty years, but its approach to development has become a source of debate among African opinion leaders and outside experts. Some opinion leaders believe ... -
Characteristics and outcomes of patients with an unscheduled return visit within 72 hours to the Paediatric Emergency Centre at a Private Tertiary Referral Hospital in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021-06)Introduction: Patients' unscheduled return visits (URVs) to the paediatric emergency Centre (PEC) contribute to overcrowding and affect health service delivery and overall quality of care. This study assessed the characteristics ... -
Does mass drug administration of azithromycin reduce child mortality?
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Plugging Generic Gaps By Including The Literary Essay In The Kiswahili Secondary School Curriculum In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)It is a truism that professionalism or academic acumen is a gradual process that is patiently nurtured from pre-school through primary and secondary school education before being solidified at a tertiary level or ... -
Restaging Oral Narrative in Civic Education
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Oral literature as an agent of culture and reflection of the same is inherently dynamic. It has overtime served different generations existing under various socio-economic conditions. Drawing from different historical ... -
Imagining the Kenyan Canaan Dream Journey in Cyber Space
(University of Nairobi, 2021)With technological advances made in contemporary times, new literary genres have emerged in digital space, with an attendant rise in the performance of rhetorical discourse on social media platforms. In the run up to Kenyan ... -
Applied Theatre as a Medium of Communal Communication: 'access to Justice' Project in Kwale, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)The idea of applied theatre is based on the fact that societies have used oral performances as a channel of communication and socialization across time and space. The participants of these events deal with the immediate ... -
The Role of Material Research in Product Development and Sustainability of Handicraft Industries in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)There is little in-depth research that can assist the informal handcraft sector in Kenya in using use material exploration as a catalyst in the design of diverse innovative products. This paper therefore explores how product ... -
Caregivers as Aids to People With Visual Mobility Disability in Interior Spaces in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)The purpose of this study was to explore extent to which people with visual disabilities in University of Nairobi use caregivers as aids to mobility and the challenges experienced by both. Non participatory observation ... -
Appraisal of Human-centred Design as a Public Health Tool- Curbing the Incidence of Lifestyle Diseases in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Recent studies in Kenya show that Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs), also referred to as lifestyle diseases, contribute to approximately 4 of every 10 adult deaths annually. The rising burden of lifestyle diseases is of ... -
1“bottom-up” Approach: a Community-based Intervention in Fighting Non Communicable Diseases in Urban Informal Settlements, Nairobi – Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Objective: The main objective of this study was to identify challenges faced by healthcare front-liners towards health promotion in the prevention and management of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) amongst the urban 25 - ... -
Folklore and identity in Joe Khamisi’s selected autobiographical works
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Guided by autobiographical and post-colonial theories, this study identified and discussed the use of folklore for sociopolitical identity in Joe Khamisi’s autobiography. The specific objectives were to identify the ... -
The relationship between Competitive Strategy Drivers and Performance of manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises in Nairobi County, Kenya
(2021)act This study determines the influence of competitive strategy drivers on the performance of manufacturing SMEs in Nairobi County in Kenya. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of many economies all ... -
Environmental Risk Factors Influencing Diarrheal Occurrence among Children Under Five Years Old in Informal Urban Settlements: A Case Study of Korogocho, in Nairobi County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020-09)The paper's main objective is to establish the relationship between environmental risk factors of childhood diarrhea and its occurrence in the Korogocho slum in Nairobi County. The hypotheses to be tested were; no ... -
Digital literacy and online child abuse among primary school children in Langata Sub-county, Nairobi City County in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021-07)Kenya introduced Digischool to public primary schools to prepare children for today’s digital world attracting a cyber-threat landscape. Utilising a descriptive cross-sectional design within a concurrent mixed approach, ... -
Does Tenure Security Reduce Disaster Risk? A Comparative Study of the Nairobi Settlements of Kibera and Kawangware
(University of Nairobi, 2021)While scholarship suggests that improving tenure security and housing significantly reduces disaster risk at the household level within urban settings, this assertion has not been adequately tested. Tenure security can be ... -
An Exploratory Study on The Association Between Gender and Factors That Inuence Animal-Source Food Dietary Intake for Households In LowerIncome Urban Informal Settings of Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Background: Low-quality monotonous diets dominated by starchy foods are a major problem confronting resource-constrained settings worldwide including poor households in the urban informal settings of Nairobi, Kenya. This ... -
Dividend Signalingand Shareholder MonitoringHypothesis: Empirical evidencefromNairobi Securities Exchange
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Most corporate governance studies have focused on the composition and effectiveness of board members, little attention has barely focused on the interaction between the identity of significant shareholders and the decisions ... -
Impact of Corporate Governance on Corporate Value for Companies Listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The study objective is to establish the impact of corporate governance on corporate value of firms listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. From time to time, capital market authorities have issued guidelines and regulations ...
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