ABSTRACT Food security in food-deficit countries in sub-Saharan Africa remains a big challenge. Yet, a large volume of food, valued in excess of USD 4 billion (grain alone), is harvested each year. The United Nations predicts that 1.3 billion tons of food produced is lost globally. This happens during post-harvest operations every year in a world where over 870 million people go hungry. In Kenya, 30-40% of the total cereals produced yearly are lost due to post-harvest handling inefficiencies,...
ABSTRACT Coordination of Cash Transfer Programmes (CTP) is very important in achieving better humanitarian assistance in times of disasters and emergencies because it saves resources, avoids conflicts, evades duplications and gaps, minimises the difference between programs as well as thwarts inflation to local markets. The use of CTP to provide humanitarian assistance so that people access goods and services they need before, during and after crisis has been gaining momentum particularly sinc...
ABSTRACT The world of the twenty first century today has many achievements yet as the saying goes; the more things change the more they remain the same. This seems to be the case in matters of dress especially in reference to women‟s attire. The society seems to dictate on who dons in what. The Christian scriptures do not seem to give a normative direction in matters of donning in general and women‟s dress in particular. The main objective of this study was to examine the extent to which ...
ABSTRACT This study rethinks the legitimacy of the political economy theory in so far as it assumes that media owners unproblematically determine content in newspapers, radio or television stations that they own. The study was stimulated by The Herald’s political news content in the period between 2015 and 2017, which scandalised some senior politicians in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) Government. This occurred notwithstanding the fact that the ZANU PF Gover...
Abstract The research investigated human trafficking as an emerging threat to human security with a special focus on the trafficking of Zimbabwe women to Kuwait between 2010 and 2016. The research was guided by the following objectives: to analyse human trafficking as an emerging human security threat with specific focus on the trafficking of Zimbabwean women to Kuwait during the period 2010-2016, to examine the dynamics surrounding the challenges encountered in curbing human trafficking as ...
Abstract Local authorities in Zimbabwe have been facing a plethora of challenges due to the mushrooming of informal settlements. About 90% and above of the Zimbabwean population is moving to towns posing a bigger challenge to the management of towns and cities. 2005 operation Murambatsvina cleaned all the illegal activities and people residing near Harare found solace and cheap shelter in Epworth. Operation Garikai which superseded Murambatsvina failed to deliver as it was promised hence it ...
ABSTRACT Teaching process is a two – way communication between the teacher and pupils, and among the pupils themselves. Instructional media mediate and support such interactions. Utilization of instructional media in public primary school is crucial in teaching of Kiswahili. Therefore the study sought to investigate utilization of instructional media in teaching of Kiswahili in public primary schools of Nyandarua county, Kenya. The objectives were: To establish instructional media used in t...
ABSTRACT Research has shown that role conflict and role ambiguity are associated with burnout among head teachers of public schools and general educators. However, there is scanty literature from previous studies examining the relationship between role Stressors and burnout among head teachers of public primary schools in Kakamega County, Kenya. Role conflict refers to incompatibility of expectations and demands associated with the role while Role ambiguity refers to a lack of clear informati...
Abstract This paper shows the relationship between regime and dependency theories. Its central argument is that international regimes primarily serve the accumulation interests of metropolitan capitalism, and hence perpetuate dependency. Using the case of the apparel industry in sub-Saharan Africa, it brings to the fore both the dependency and struggle in international regimes that mainstream regime theory masks. The paper concludes that, in its struggle to embed industry, Africa will need to...
ABSTRACT Climate variability which is a reality in Kenya is manifested by fluctuations in climatic parameters, low agricultural production, land fragmentation, soil degradation, and loss of biodiversity. Addressing climate variability requires the use of ecologically based traditional climate smart agriculture systems such as agro forestry. In the past decade human lives, crops and livestock worth millions of shillings have been destroyed by increased intensity of extreme weather events in Ke...
ABSTRACT Communication is the engine that drives all the social systems we know of.Without proper communication,systems may crumble.The study focuses on how credibility of information can be affected by use of social media.The type of communication in our study is top-down communication.Social media is a new phenomenon in the country and there has not been effective training of how to handle it as a tool.In organizations,improper use of social media will cause an effect to credibility on the ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate into the nexus between terrorism and organized crime a case study of the Al-Shabaab in East Africa. The rationale was of that there is no nexus between terrorism and organized crime and there is the nexus between the two. The significance of the study was to enable the selected organizations in Zimbabwe and East Africa to have an insight into the relationship between terrorism and organized crime. There are no studies to the researcher’...
ABSTRACT Management of healthcare sector is very critical to the healing process. Receptionists are the first point of contact when patients visit health facilities. These receptionists who work in public facilities are employed by the ministry of health and managed by County governments while their counterparts who work in private health facilities fall under the hospital management, the human resource department. Private facilities in Kenya are represented by the Kenya healthcare federation...
ABSTRACT In this paper it is argued that literacy is critical for socio-economic development. A literate nation makes positive contributions to the general development of a country. This paper also seek to establish the strategies that public libraries have employed to promote and sustain high literacy rates in the country. It was investigated the innovative strategies like story telling sessions and explain how they have helped Kenya achieve Africa’s highest literacy level despite the soci...
Abstract This study explores the relationship between return migration, space and identity in Zimbabwean Literature as exemplified by Daniel Mandishona‟s White Gods Black Demons (2009). It employs postcolonial theory in its exploration of the relationship between return migration, space and identity in Mandishona‟s text. Return migration is largely depicted as a metaphor of failure in most of the selected stories were some of the characters return to their homeland either sickly or mad ...