ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between stress levels, health seeking behaviors and academic performance among students of KampalaInternational University (KIU) Kampala, Uganda. The study was guided by three stated objectives: To determine the relationship between stress levels and academic performance among students; To examine the difference between the levels of stress experienced among male and female students; To establish relationship between health ...
ABSTRACT The study was concerned with conflict on students’ attrition in secondary Schools in Magwi County, Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan. The study was guided by 4 objectives; Determining the profile of the respondents, the level of conflict, The level of students’ attrition and the relationship between conflict and students’ attrition in Magwi County, Eastern Equatoria State. The study applied descriptive co relational survey design using quantitative approach to derive meaning...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine the impact of mentorship and girl child education in secondary schools in Garowe, Puntland, Somalia. The study objectives were; to establish the relationship between guidance and counselling and girl child education in Garowe, Puntland, to find out the relationship between role modelling and parental attitudes toward girl child education in Garowe, Puntland and to establish relationship between learning environment and girl child education in Garowe, Pun...
ABSTRACT The study was set out to establish the efficiency and effectiveness of improved road communication network in affecting the trends, intensity and impact of recurrent ethnic conflict among pastoralist communities of Garissa and Mandera. Over the years conflict has remained the major cause of under-development in the area. The conventional cause i.e scarcity of pasture, water, small arms proliferation e.t.c appears not to have eminent solution due to the deteriorating climatic change...
ABSTRACT This study focused on protection of children in the Family and Children Court, Nakawa Division, Kampala District in the aspects of welfare and development. The purpose of the study was to establish whether there is a significant relationship between child protection and level of welfare and development in Nakawa Division, Kampala Uganda. The research findings are to the effect that level of protection of children is generally high; level of welfare of children was also found to be ...
ABSTRACT The study aimed to examine the level of "community awareness of the right to peace which exists in areas experiencing armed conflicts in eastern of the Democratic Republic of Congo". Since 1996, war started in Minembwe and spread the whole country. It included Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia in the government's side and Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda to help rebels. The objectives include find out the existing knowledge of theory of peace in Africa and in eastern region of DRC, actors and...
ABSTRACT This study entitled: The Right to Know: An Analytical study ofthe Access to Information Act in Uganda and its implications to Journalism practice is a critical analysis of the Access to Information Act 2005, a piece of legislation that empowers all Ugandans to access information in possession of the State. The right of access to information gives practical meaning to the principles ofparticipatory democracy. In this study, the researcher focuses on identifying the strengths, weakne...
ABSTRACT The study is a descriptive exploratory case study that aims to establish the reasons for the Kenya- Somalia border closure. It will also establish the consequences and the effectiveness of the border closure in Mandera and Beled Hawa towns respectively in Kenya and Somalia. Lawlessness, insecurity and anarchy are the order of the day in Somalia. This insecurity has extended to Kenya due to proliferation of arms, entry of illegal immigrants and smuggling of goods. Kenya having been ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the correlation between the child labour and human rights protection in Hargeisa Somalia. The study was guided by four specific objectives and these included; to determine the gender of respondents in terms of, gender, Age, Marital status, Education level, to examine the level of the child labour in Somalia, Hargeisa , to examine the nature of Human rights protection, to establish the rationale between child labour and human rights protec...
ABSTRACT This study set out to establish whether children's rights to education were applicable to children who are affected by conflict in war-torn Northern Uganda. More specifically, the study used the case of former child soldiers in Gulu District to establish the challenges that these children face in their bid to enjoying the right to education. To ascertain the level of the enjoyment of the right to education of former child soldiers, the study investigated whether children were acces...
ABSTRACT In Kenya the enactment of the Children Act in 2001 was a milestone step towards resolution of Children-related disputes. The Children’s Act that was passed into law in March 2001 has several objectives. They include making provision for parental responsibility; adoption; fostering; maintenance and custody; guardianship; care and protection of children; to make provision or administration of children’s institutions and to give effect to the principles of the United Nations conve...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at establishing the relationship between land rights and women's productivity and economic advancement. The study was guided by the following objectives; to establish how land rights can be orientated to improve women's productivity and economic advancement, labored to find out how women's productivity and economic advancement can be improved and finally the study tried to find out the relationship between land rights and women's productivity and economic advancemen...
ABSTRACT This study focused on “Community —based development policies of umuganda and peace-building in post-genocide Rwanda”. The study was guided by the general objective which was to explore the relationship between community based development policies and peace building in post genocide Rwanda with the following specific objectives (i) To determine underlying explanatory factors of peace-building in the post genocide Rwanda (ii)To identify the extent to which community based devel...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to assess disabled learners’ access to primary education in Hamarjajab district, Mogadishu Somalia. Specifically the study sought to; determine the risks that disabled learners face while travelling to school in Mogadishu; establish how the school environment meet the needs of disabled learners in primary schools in Mogadishu; determine the challenges disabled learners face while studying in primary schools in Mogadishu. This study adopted a mixed metho...
ABSTRACT The study titled “Drought and natural resources based conflict among pastoralist communities” conducted in Greater Kapoeta area of South Sudan. The study was conducted to determine whether resource scarcity contribute significantly to prevalence of conflict; to investigate the recurrence of drought in the study area and its impact on pastoralists’ livelihood; and to study the drought coping mechanisms of pastoralists. Its main objective was to find out the impact of drought o...