ABSTRACT Tourism sector in Kenya holds a strategic importance in the country’s economy providing significant socio economic benefits. Tourism sector is sensitive to taxes, however it cannot be exempt from them since tax is a significant source of revenue for national budget. VAT most strongly affects the tourist competitiveness of the country. The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of Value Added Tax Act, 2013 on tour value chain in Kenya’s tourism industry. The study was base...
ABSTRACT The 5S quality management approach involves, sorting, setting in order, shining, standardizing and sustaining the improvements. The concept has been adopted by the Kenyan Ministry of Health, through the Kenya Quality Model for Health (KQMH) framework because it provides a solid foundation for achieving operational excellence. While it is a relatively straightforward concept, most facilities find it hard to sustain 5S improvements over time, reverting to poorly organized work places ...
ABSTRACT The provision of quality and affordable healthcare remains a challenge for many countries and has been shown to be constrained by many factors including economic, social and political factors. This then results in an imbalance between the supply and demand for health services. Shortage of skilled health workers then provides further strain on improving access to quality health services. Therefore, there is a need to establish how to make the most of this rare resource, including how...
ABSTRACT Little data showed the comparison and contrast of the various approaches of implementing public participation guidelines and the significance of their implementation in the success of key governmental processes. This research sought to evaluate the extent to which three different Kenyan county governments have implemented county public participation guidelines. This was done through determining the extent to which planning and financing of public participation affects implementation...
This study sought to investigate factors influencing listing of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) on Growth Enterprise Market Segment (GEMS) in Kenya. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether the level of information awareness, business profile and managerial competence influence the listing of SMEs on GEMS. The study was grounded on two theories namely pecking order theory and agency cost theory which support best practices on listing at the stock exchange. The study adopted a d...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the factors affecting agents‟ liquidity challenges in Nairobi County. It adopted a mix method cross-sectional study of agents, master agents, provider representatives and bank representatives. The study had three-fold objective: to establish the relationship between agent factors and liquidity challenges, to establish the effect of supply side factors on agent liquidity challenges and to explore agent perceptions towards liquidity management mechan...
Abstract Imports from India and China constitute over 40% of the total value of pharmaceutical imports into Kenya. However products made in these countries are faced with the challenge of being perceived in the context of the country of their origin. This concept has identified that national stereotypes of products and services from a country exist and they affect the product evaluation and purchase intention of the market. The purpose of this study is to identify the perception of Kenyan ph...
ABSTRACT Social cash transfers have progressively gained wide acceptance as viable models for intervention in addressing extreme poverty and inequality among lower income citizens. For the past 15 years, Kenya has been at the fore of investing in large-scale poverty based cash transfer programmes as evidenced by the increment in annual budget allocation. Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP) is one of the government’s cash transfer programme aimed at reducing extreme poverty, enhancing livel...
ABSTRACT Road infrastructure remains an important ingredient to the economic development of Kenya as most transport is through this medium. The government has earmarked improvement of road infrastructure as an important part of its vision 2030. However, lack of financial and technical capacity has resulted in the Kenyan government seeking assistance from the World Bank to finance its road projects. This study analysed the critical success factors for the timely completion of World Bank proje...
ABSTRACT This research paper examines the experiences and challenges of county governments in resource allocation by undertaking a budget analysis of 15 county governments. The study uses ‘resource allocation’ to mean the funds (monies) allocated to the three devolved functions of agriculture, health and water. The criteria on the selection of the counties included in the sample was the poverty index clustered into three namely 5 urban counties, 5 rich counties and 5 poor counties with s...
ABSTRACT The study focused on factors that influence adoption of online trade services among corporate customers of a tier II international bank in Kenya. It sought to determine the association between predictor variables (perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, self-efficacy, awareness, and volume of transactions) and user acceptance of online trade services among corporate customers of a tier II International bank in Kenya. The study used the Technology Acceptance Model theoretical fr...
ABSTRACT Electricity as a source of power for production is a key aspect in the growth and development of the manufacturing sector. The availability of electric power and its costs directly affects the quality, quantity and cost of production. However, there lacks substantive studies on the contribution of proportionate costs of mains electricity in determining the overall production cost from the manufacturing companies in Nairobi. Thus, this study evaluated the role of mains electricity as...
ABSTRACT This study investigated factors influencing the implementation of the safe motherhood, maternal, and neonatal health component of the National Reproductive Health (NRHP) (2007) in Nairobi County using Mazmanian and Sabatier’s policy implementation framework. The investigation sought to determine the extent to which human resources, financial resources, hierarchical integration, and stakeholder involvement influenced the implementation of these components of the Policy. A mixed-met...
ABSTRACT Software as a service is a model that has recently been used to offer software systems in the world. The purpose of this research was to investigate the factors influencing implementation of ERP system as a SAAS among Small and Medium enterprises within the Manufacturing Industry in Nairobi County. Specifically, the study sought to establish the organizational, environmental and technological factors influencing the implementation of ERP system as a SaaS among SMEs within the manufa...
Abstract Strategic Planning has generally been held by not-for-profit organizations as a key success factor for achieving short term and long term goals. These organizations generally consider themselves successful if they are able to attract funding to execute their mission. It is believed that not-for-profit organizations which are successful in terms of financial management outcomes achieve such success as a result of effective implementation of strategic plans. However, little informatio...