43 research outputs found
IBPP Research Associates: Kenya
No full textThe article - How Moi makes a fool of IMF: Corruption in Kenya has gone into overdrive - was written by Michael Chege, and was recently posted online at Africanews.com (http://www.africanews.com/) in 1999. Dr. Michael Chege, a Kenyan, is Director, Center for African Studies, University of Florida. This article first appeared in a recent Issue of Africa Analise.
The author discusses economic reforms and renewed growth in Africa and the decade-long on-and-off dalliance between the IMF and the Daniel arap Moi government in Kenya.
IBPP Comment. The parallels to Issues between the IMF and Russia seem extraordinary. Opponents of how the IMF does business in Russia might well look to Kenya and yet other nation-states for analytic and operational shortfalls characteristic of the IMF infrastructure.
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Population and habitat connectivity of Grevy's zebra Equus grevyi, a threatened large herbivore in degraded rangelands
No full textLand degradation, competition with livestock, infrastructure development, and climate change have reduced habitat availability and reduced population connectivity for many wildlife species. Large herbivores are particularly vulnerable, and approximately 90 % of global large herbivore diversity is in Africa. The endangered Grevy's zebra illustrates the decline and fragmentation of large mammalian herbivore populations, with extensive population loss across their range in northern Kenya and Ethiopia. A better understanding of the factors influencing population connectivity and movement patterns of Grevy's zebra, highlighted in national strategies, offers valuable insights for other threatened species.Using location and movement data for Grevy's zebra from GPS collars deployed between 2010 and 2017, seasonally-explicit landscape resistance was modelled as a function of water availability, vegetation, cattle density, topography and proximity to roads and settlements. Maximum entropy models identified habitat suitability during wet and dry seasons respectively. Population connectivity analyses using least-cost paths and circuit theory determined landscape resistance to movement and highlighted linkage pathways. Movement was modelled over a range of distances, using GPS data.Grevy's zebra reliance on water was confirmed, with an apparent trade-off between habitat suitability and proximity to people. Connectivity models highlighted potentially isolated populations, with reduced seasonal connectivity being most apparent between north to south distribution areas. These results can inform sustainable land management planning in northern Kenya and offer support for Grevy's zebra conservation actions. These results also provide insights that can be applied to other large herbivores occurring in this region and in arid or degraded environments elsewhere.</p
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul: managing threatened predators of endangered and declining prey species
No full textConservation policy and practice can sometimes run counter to their mutual aims of ensuring species survival. In Kenya, where threatened predators such as lion deplete endangered prey such as Grevy’s zebra, conservation practitioners seek to ensure species success through exclusive strategies of protection, population increase and preservation. We found strong selection for the endangered Grevy’s zebra by both lion and hyena on two small fenced conservancies in Kenya. Despite abundant diversity of available prey, Grevy’s zebra were selected disproportionately more than their availability, while other highly available species such as buffalo were avoided. Lions were therefore not alone in presenting a credible threat to Grevy’s zebra survival. Conservation practitioners must consider interlinked characteristics of prey selection, resource availability and quality, the interplay between carnivore guild members and landscape scale population trends performance in wildlife management decisions
EFFECT OF MARKETING OUTSOURCING ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF AUTOMOTIVE ASSEMBLING FIRMS IN NAIROBI CITY COUNTY, KENYA
No full textAbstract: Automotive Assembling firms in Nairobi County, Kenya, have faced significant challenges over the last 15 years, including lack of supporting standards, low-capacity building, a huge influx in second-hand motor vehicles, which account for 80% of motor vehicles, these challenges contributed to decline in the organizational performance. Most of them have embraced Outsourcing Strategies to improve their organizational performance. However, they are still facing stagnant operational performance. Organizational performance in this study was measured using sales, profitability and market share, therefore most of the firms experienced low sales, non-profitability and reduced market share. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the effect of marketing outsourcing on organizational performance of automotive assembling firms in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The study applied a descriptive survey design. The research narrowed to Procurement staff in managerial positions at 13 automotive assembling firms. This research focused on official staff in the procurement department in automotive assembling firms totaling 114 employees to collect the relevant data. A census of 114 respondents was done. Data was collected using questionnaires. Pilot Study was conducted where the questionnaire was administered to a few selected respondents from the automotive assembling firms in Nairobi Kenya. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive analysis. Multiple regression model inferential statistics was applied to obtain the correlation between variables. The study concluded that customer relations and follow-up are conducted on a regular basis through different public media outlets in the automobile assembling firms. The study recommended that the firm management must develop partnerships with the suppliers, and they should not be taken as contractors, which will help share value and missions over the long term.
Keywords: Marketing outsourcing, Organizational Performance, Outsourcing strategy.
Title: EFFECT OF MARKETING OUTSOURCING ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF AUTOMOTIVE ASSEMBLING FIRMS IN NAIROBI CITY COUNTY, KENYA
Author: Josephine Mwende, Dr. Wambui Chege
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
Vol. 10, Issue 2, October 2022 - March 2023
Page No: 169-174
Research Publish Journals
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Published Date: 07-November-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7298841
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Diccionario Swahili-Español. [Swahili-Spanish Dictionary]
No full textThe Diccionario Swahili-Español is a learning tool for Spanish speaking Swahili students and linguists, created with the collaboration of linguists and lexicographers of the prestigious Latin American university that published it (el Colegio de Mexico). It contains a sketch of Swahili grammar, and more than 10,000 carefully selected entries and sub-entries. In addition to describing the language, this dictionary is a cultural text of modern Swahili. It also contains many examples of usage, and notes on dialect variations and special uses of certain words that are culturally or semantically specific to the Swahili language. It also includes neologisms and coinages that are not present in older dictionaries. The selection of entries was based on a lexicostatistical study of the language conducted by the author. The book was described by the African Academy of Sciences as “an important advance in the internationalization of Swahili.” It is the first ever-published dictionary of these two major world languages
The Effects of Pine (Pinus Canariensis) Tree Bark Extract on the Properties of Fresh and Hardened Concrete
No full textIn this research, pine tree bark extract was prepared in a digester by using water, heat, and pressure. In the digester, the ratio of the mass of the bark to that of the water was 1:2, respectively. The temperature in the digester was raised from the ambient level to 121 o C in 15 minutes. At the temperature of 121o C, the pressure inside the digester was 0.1 N/mm2. These conditions of heat and pressure were maintained for a period one hour, resulting in the liquid phase of the mixture turning opaque brown (black liquor). Without further processing, the black liquor was used as a concrete admixture and tests carried out to determine its effects on workability of fresh concrete and strength of hardened concrete. Dosages of the black liquor used, expressed as a mass percentage of the cement content were 10 %, 20 %, 30 %, 40 %, and 47.5 %. In each case, the mixing water was reduced by an amount equal to the mass of the dosage. For each dosage, compressive strength tests were carried out at the ages of 3,7,28, and 61 days. Compared with control concrete, increases of workability were observed for all the dosages. However, consistent improvement in compressive strength only occurred when the dosage of pine bark extract was 20 %. Keywords: Concrete admixture, lignin, pine, strength, workability
Education and Empowerment of Girls against Gender-based Violence
No full textViolence may be defined generally as the mechanism by which unequal power relations are maintained through the infliction of physical or emotional pain on one person by another. However, gender violence takes on a more specific nature that is mainly sexual and which hinges on patriarchal cultures whereby men seek to control, not just the social institutions but also, women's bodies as objects of male sexual gratification. Schools as agents of socialisations may perpetuate such cultures. Using research findings from selected settings of the Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR), the author demonstrates how gender violence among young people (female and male) in African formal educational contexts interacts with schooling to produce disempowering experiences for girls compared with their male schoolmates. The thrust of the argument is that, by acting out their gendered and sexual identities in explicitly sensitive, reflexive and gender friendly ways, female and male teachers have the potential to create for their students, violence-free environments in which girls enjoy schooling on equal terms with their male peers
Blood Acquisition and Processing by Three Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) Species with Different Innate Susceptibilities to Plasmodium falciparum
No full textResearching gender: explorations into sexuality and HIV/AIDS in African contexts
No full textThe author demonstrates that collaborating with children using a gender-sensitive life-cycle approach yields social and health dividends. The paper focuses upon young people and children engaged in HIV/AIDS education, not only as consumers of information but also as generators of knowledge pertinent to their needs, aspirations, anxieties, fears, hopes and dreams. This subject-centred approach to education is facilitated by innovative methodologies that allow young people to talk frankly with adults and amongst themselves, to participate in community theatre designed to help different types of people address issues of common interest, and to work with experienced adult researchers in generating relevant data
