Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Adolescent fertility and its determinants in Kenya: Evidence from Kenya demographic and health survey 2014
(University of Nairobi, 2022-01)Background: Adolescent fertility in Kenya is vital in the development and execution of reproductive health policies and programs. One of the specific objectives of the Kenyan Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health (ASRH) ... -
Progressivity of the Output Based Aid Voucher Programme and Its Effects on Family Planning and Maternal Health in Nairobi and Kiambu Counties, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Introduction: In developing countries, the poor and vulnerable are unable to access basic healthcare needs due to health financing related constraints. Healthcare needs are mostly financed through out of pocket, resulting ... -
Information Profession in Digital Transformation and Development: Future Directions
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Industrial revolutions have changed and transformed humanity and society over time and continue to advance development with evidence across disciplines and professions. The purpose was to explore where the information ... -
Sustainable Information Development Practices and Societal Transformation in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021)This paper demonstrates the impact of the information discipline and profession in transforming and changing the lives of people through sustainable development practices and policies. Quantitative and qualitative research ... -
How to Exploite Scholarly Resources on the Net
(University of Nairobi, 2009)The Internet (Net) has an enormous amount of scholarly information due to information explosion and advances in Information and Communication Technology (lCT). However, it has been observed that it is not easy for someone ... -
Prevalence of and factors associated with contraceptive discontinuation in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2022-05)Background: The overwhelming uptake of contraception in Kenya at 58% suggests huge potential for a continued increase, but discontinuation threatens efforts to achieve new targets. Further increases in contraceptive ... -
Landscape Dynamics (landDX) an open-access spatial-temporal database for the Kenya-Tanzania borderlands
(University of Nairobi, 2022-01)The savannas of the Kenya-Tanzania borderland cover >100,000 km2 and is one of the most important regions globally for biodiversity conservation, particularly large mammals. The region also supports >1 million pastoralists ... -
Landscape of Tobacco Control in Sub-saharan Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2022-03)Yearly, tobacco use kills about 8 million people globally, 80% of whom live in low/middle-income countries. Given sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) rapidly increasing and youthful population, growing incomes and the increased ... -
Financing the future of WHO
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The influence of organizational size on the relationship between entrepreneurship training and organizational performance of government-funded youth group enterprises in Kenya
(DBA Africa Management Review, 2022-04-20)One of the avenues of reducing unemployment rates is entrepreneurship. Youth seem to be the age group that is hit the hardest by lack of or inadequate opportunities for income generation. This has seen ... -
Effect of subsidised credit financing on the financial performance of smallholder farmers in Kenya. a case of Kimira-Oluch Farm Improvement Project
(DBA Africa Management Review, 2022-04-20)The Kimira-OluchSmallholder Farm Improvement Project was initiated in 2003 to reduce poverty by increasing food security and income for about 3,000 households. The appraisal study conducted in 2010 revealed ... -
The joint effect of marketing strategies, firm characteristics and industry competition on export performance of fresh produce firms in kenya
(DBA Africa Management Review, 2022-04-11)Export marketing research focusses primarily on the direct relationship between marketing strategies and export performance. Following a review of literature, specific firm characteristics, industry competition were ... -
Organizational agility and performance of Chartered Public and Private Universities in Kenya
(DBA Africa Management Review, 2022-04-20)University education in Kenya experienced rapid changes in 80s and 90s which magnified in the 2020s to create challenges in meeting the expectations. Some of the changes were double intakes of 1984-1985, 1987-1988, ... -
Library Automation in East and Southern African Universities: Proceedings of a Sub-regional Conference
(University of Nairobi, 2005)The paper considers the digital divide as a curse, which in spite of the creation of the global village by the advent of ICls, still keeps Africa lagging behind. The World Bank view of the Information revolution and its ... -
Differences of Age and Gender in Pitch Range Modulation in Yes-no Questions in Ekegusii
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What Can a Single Lubukusu Verb Form Contain
(UON, 2022)This paper is a brief description and illustration of all that a single verb form can contain in Lubukusu as an agglutinating Bantu language (of Kenya). From left to right, the most complex verb form will have the following ... -
Which RP Should We Teach in Kenyan Schools: British RP or “Kenyan-indigenised RP”?
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The High Tone Anticipation Rule in the Lwisukha Dialect of Luyia
(University of Nairobi, 2022)This paper describes the high tone anticipation rule in the Lwisukha dialect of Luyia, a Bantu language of Kenya. This rule involves the right-to-left spread of a high tone from post-modifying adjectives to toneless ... -
Supply chain quality management practices, complementary firm assets, competitive advantage and firm performance
(IJMSR, 2018): The literature review was intended to examine the nature of relationship that exists between supply chain quality management (SCQM) practices, complementary firm assets, competitive advantage and organizational ... -
Effect of competitive advantage on the relationship between supply chain quality management practices and performance of Private Hospitals in Kenya
(Ajbuma, 2022-03-25)The objective of the study was to determine the effect of competitive advantage in the relationship between supply chain quality management practices and performance of private hospitals in Kenya. This study was anchored ...
