Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Women Informal Garment Traders in Taveta Road, Nairobi: From the Margins to the Center
(2013)This article investigates the Taveta Road phenomenon, whereby women garment informal traders occupy a whole street in the central business district in Nairobi, Kenya. It also discusses the implications for urban planning ... -
Priming HIV Messages in Kenyan Print Media Patterns, Trends, and Issues
(2013)This paper is an investigation into the role of the print media in combating the HIV epidemic in Kenya. A critical analysis of how this information is covered is necessary to determine whether there is need for change of ... -
The Changing Concept of Adolescence in Kenya
(2014)Kenya has at least 42 tribes. Each of these tribes had a unique way of marking the boundary between childhood and adulthood. It is like once pubertal signs emerged, the adolescent was said to be ready for adulthood. ... -
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 ...
