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Application of GIS to the administration of bursary in Technical Training Institutes in Kenya. Case study: Kitale Technical Training Institute
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2010)
When the Government realized that growing poverty levels had affected about 46% of Kenyan households, thereby affecting their ability to afford fees, it introduced a bursary scheme for tertiary technical training institutes ...
Accuracy assessment of Preliminary Index Diagrams (PIDs) from High Resolution Orthoimage
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2010)
Land tenure reforms and modernization to conform to current land management and development demands remain a challenge facing developing countries today. Promotion of land titling is the starting point to achieve this ...
An Investigation into the strategies for commercial real estate development financing in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2010-11)
Real estate is the largest asset class in the world. For example Johnstone (2004) observed that
the value of housing in the United States of America alone was Sixteen Trillion United States
Dollars. Other authors have ...
Stratified Sampling Frame in GIS: A Computer Code for Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) Technique in Environmental Modelling
(2010)
Field sampling is a widely applied data collection method in environmental engineering. Sampling, which is supposed to provide adequate and unbiased representation of a study interest, is often faced with challenges such ...
Wind, Solar and Mini/Micro hydro power: a Kenyan approach to project implementation
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2010)
In Vision 2030, whose main objective is to make Kenya a globally competitive and prosperous nation with a high quality of life by the year 2030, the role to be played by power and in retrospect its generation cannot be ...
An evaluation into the effectiveness of employer assisted housing in Kenya
(2010)
Housing is a basic need. Improvement in housing stock is a strategically important social and
economic investment and governments all over the world employ different strategies to ensure
that their people are adequately ...
Analysis of changing positions and interests of stakeholders:
(2010)
One of the key landmarks in the process of slum upgrading in Kenya is the implementation
of the Soweto East pilot project. The project is one of the many projects envisioned in the
Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme (KENSUP). ...
An examination of the impacts of the 2005/2006 policy review on densification of low density residential estates in Nairobi:A case study of kileleshwa estate
(2010)
Densification of low density residential areas is practiced worldwide to counter the outward spread of cities and to offset the negative effects caused by this spread. Some of the negative effects include; air pollution ...
Multi-criteria based selection of fibre optic Internet- based business location: A case study of Nairobi central business district
(2010)
of a spatial nature, has been in use for more than 30 years. Initial use was limited to small
groups within individual agencies working on very specific projects of limited scope. In
the last decade, locating business ...
A study of household electricity demand and consumption patterns in Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2010)
The study set out to generate baseline data and information through the analysis of secondary data available from Kenya Power and Lighting Company Ltd (KPLC) for domestic consumers of electricity in a Nairobi residential ...