Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Urban Policy and Performance in Kenya and Tanzania
(1975)OVER the past ten years, African governments have wrestled with the problems of designing and implementing comprehensive rural development policies. In an overwhelmingly rural continent with, for most areas, only a ... -
Water supply improvements for upgrading areas with special reference to automatic self-closing taps
(1979)The present water supply situation for the urban and semLurban low income population in Kenya is one of great concern. The urban low income population is mostly housed in uncontrolled settlements in low cost sub-standard ... -
Urban and industrial deconcentration in Kenya: .an analytical framework
(1969)Historically, industrial growth and associated urban activities in Kenya have been concentrated in Nairobi and to a lesser extent in Mombasa. There is some evidence that Nairobi has been increasing in importance relative ... -
What Happened to the Internet? Scientific Communities in Three Low-income Areas, 2000-2010
(2014)This ten year study suggests that the digital divide in connectivity may have largely closed for the scientific community in parts of the world that were previously unconnected. Almost a decade ago Ynalvez et al. (2005) ... -
Effectiveness of youth polytechnics in training the youth for employment in Machakos District, Kenya
(2014)Youth Polytechnics play an important role in training school leavers who do not proceed with higher education. They are trained in relevant skills for either salary or self-employment. This study was set out to investigate ... -
A review of customer satisfaction models and a proposed business genetic code
(2014)This conceptual study has traced the evolution of customer satisfaction index models over the last four decades (1970 to 2012). The aim was to assess the key strengths and weaknesses of the current models; identify knowledge ... -
Role of Social Work in Minimizing Sexual and Gender Inequalities
(2014)Gender and sex shapes all aspects of our lives including access to key resources and services such as information, education, employment, health and credit. Being a socio-cultural construct, in terms of socially and ... -
Public procurement legal framework implementation challenges and organizational performance
(2014)Public Procurement is one of the major objectives of any government striving to deliver goods and services to its people. Indeed, procurement permeates the entire spectrum of the development process since the government ... -
Prosecution of maritime piracy cases in Kenya: testing the SUA Convention model on piracy prosecution
(2014)Since 2008 Kenya has distinguished itself in the global war against piracy by undertaking prosecutions in the national courts of suspected pirates, arrested on the High Seas and handed over by navies of leading maritime ... -
Choosing Peace over Democracy
(2013)On 4 March 2013, roughly 12.3 million voters went to the polls in Kenya. After a protracted counting process with clear irregularities, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) declared sitting deputy ... -
Food Security Score for Kenya
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An exploration of the guiding principles, importance and challenges of monitoring and evaluation of community development projects and programmes
(University of Nairobi, 2014)In sociology, there is interdependence between social problems and research. Monitoring and Evaluation is an extension of social research. This paper analyses the purposes and steps in monitoring of community developmen ... -
Special issue: Securing the land and resource rights of pastoral peoples in East Africa
(2013)The land question in many African countries has geographical, political, economic, social and demographic nuances. These factors color land and resource rights for pastoral and forest dwelling communities. Land as property ... -
An Analysis of the Role of Internal Audit in Implementing Risk Management - a S tudy of State Corporations in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014-05)The study analyzed the role of internal audit in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) by providing empir ical Evidence on the Kenyan public sector firms. The study examined the impact of Involvement in ERM by auditors and ... -
In Search of Structural Change and Perpetual Growth in Ethiopia: Examining Alternative Sectoral Growth Drivers for Reaching Middle Income Country Status
(2014)This study examines the impacts of alternative sectoral drivers on economy wide growth, structural change and household welfare in Ethiopia. We use sectoral growth accounting approach and vector autoregressive model that ... -
ISO 9001 Certification Status and Organizational Quality Maturity.
(University of Nairobi, 2014-09)ISO 9001 quality management system standard, a member of ISO 9000 family of standards that comprise two complementary pair of standards, ISO 9001 requirements and ISO 9004 guidelines standards, has been used globally ...