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PROCUREMENT CONTRACTING PRACTICES, PROCUREMENT POLICIES AND SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE OF ROAD AUTHORITIES IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA.
(2023)Implementing and adopting the procurement Contracting process in public institutions have continuously faced the challenges due to its complexity and lack of resources that directly impacts the supply chain performance. ... -
MODELING THE EFFECT OF MEDIATION ON HIV PREVALENCE IN KENYA USING A LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL
(2023)Over the last decades, major global efforts mounted to address the HIV epidemic has realised notable successes in combating the pandemic. Sub Saharan Africa still remains a global epicenter of the disease, accounting for ... -
Genetic Diversity and resistance of African nightshade Solanum nigrum L Complex to Bacterial wilt Ralstonia solanacearum in Western Kenya
(2023)African nightshade, Solanum nigrum L .is one of the most significant leafy vegetable rich in nutritional and medicinal value, and can be used to feed people with human immune deficiency virus, HIV/AIDS in Kenya. There ... -
VECTOR AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL INCORPORATING NEW INFORMATION USING BAYESIAN APPROACH
(2023)The Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Models have been applied extensively in many fields ranging from finance, economics, machine learning among others. In fact, the VAR models are the mostly applied among the multivariate ... -
School Accounts Management and Financial Accountability of Public Secondary Schools in Khwisero Sub-County, Kenya
(2023)inclusive and equitable quality education and promotion of lifelong learning opportunities for all, school accounts management comes as top priority. However this has not been the case as the teachers service commission ... -
STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION DETERMINANTS, EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES SERVICE DELIVERY IN WESTERN REGION, KENYA
(2023)Every organization’s aim is to reaAliBzSe TaRnAd CuTph old great performance in service delivery, which leads to progression and growth for the organization. In order to improve effectiveness and safeguard higher ... -
RELATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF SELECTED PREDICTORS OF ALIGNED ANNUAL HEALTH SECTOR PLANNING AND BUDGETING AMONG HEALTH MANAGERS IN BUNGOMA COUNTY, KENYA
(2023)priorities that guide budgetary allocations to improve health outcomes. Over the years, progress has been made to strengthen this process through the development of guiding frameworks. However, challenges abound in the ... -
CORPORATE CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF KENYA COMMERCIAL BANK
(2023)various restructuring processes such as “moving from good to great” positioning strategy rebranding tactic, value concerns and behavior reassessment. These restructuring strategies are meant to place the financial ... -
EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS IN MITIGATING DRUGS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN SELECTED COUNTIES OF THE COASTAL REGION, KENYA
(2023)making it a profound concern among the comity of nations owing to the significant detrimental effects it has in almost every aspect of life and development. In Kenya, it has become one of the major social catastrophes ... -
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CHARACTERISATION OF Groundnut Ringspot Virus (GRSV) INFECTING GROUNDNUTS AND OTHER PLANTS IN WESTERN KENYA
(2023)Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an annual oilseed legume crop grown by small holder farmers in Kenya for its economic and nutritive value. However, its yield has declined upto 680 kg ha-1 than its genetic potential of ... -
Relationship Between Nursing Students’ Psychiatric Encounters and the Choice of Psychiatric Nursing Specialty in Kenya
(East African Journal of Health and Science, 2019)Management of mentally ill patients is mainly done by psychiatric nurses in Kenya. This study sought to identify the association between nursing students’ psychiatric encounters and the perception towards psychiatric nursing ... -
Smallholder Rural Youth Farming in Kiambu County, Kenya
(Journal of Culture, Society and Development, 2016-08)Investment on agriculture by countries is essential because it is core to every nation’s development. In Kenya, people particularly youth are involved in agriculture yet it attracts limited investment. This study which was ... -
Evaluating opportunities for evangelisation in the historical development of the Catholic Diocese of Kakamega since 1978
(Research Journal in Advanced Humanities, 2022-08-21)This paper evaluates the evangelisation opportunities in the historical development of the Catholic Diocese of Kakamega since 1978. The study adopted a historical research design. The study’s target population was one ... -
PEACEBUILDING CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY - KENYA
(International Journal of Recent Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (IJRRSSH), 2016-09)Conflicts necessitate peace building more than ever before in the history of humanity. The main purpose of this study was to interrogate the contribution of the Catholic Church in peace building challenges in Kenya, with ... -
Social and Economic Conflicts Influencing Students’ Participation in Secondary School Education in Kakamega County, Kenya
(Journal of Education and Practice, 2020-05-31)The importance of education in contemporary world order cannot be gainsaid. Education is the first step towards human empowerment and plays vital role in the development of human capital that is imperative in the ... -
Strategies used to improve Participation of Students in Secondary School Education in Kakamega County, Kenya.
(International Journal of Education and Research, 2020-05-05)Education plays a vital role in the development of human capital that is imperative in the modern technological and information age. However many factors, for example individual and household characteristics, socio-economic ... -
Positionality, Access to the Social Space and Place of Research: Narratives from Research in Low Middle Income Settings
(People, Place and Policy, 2020-12)Research on positionality and accessing field work for researchers studying their own communities in Lower Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) is scant. The majority of the literature on this topic emanates from High-Income ... -
Quality Monitoring in Secondary Education in Kenya: A Comparative Analysis of Public Schools in Kakamega East and Kakamega Central Sub-Counties of Kakamega County.
(International Journal of Education and Research, 2015-01-01)According to UNESCO, quality education is among the six EFA goals that may not be attained by 2015. Performance of public secondary schools in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination (KCSE) in Kakamega ... -
Origin, Settlement, and Beliefs of the Bisukha and Bidakho of the Luhya Community-Kenya
(Athens Journal of History, 2014-04)This study interrogated the origin, settlement and the beliefs of the Bisukha and Bidakho sub-ethnic groups in the larger Luhya ethnic group. The paper has unravelled the etymologies of the Luhya, Isukha and Idakho terms. ... -
Small Farm Holder Cropping Systems Influence Microbial Profiles in an Equatorial Rainforest Agroecosystem
(Agronomy, 2024-03-23)The metabarcoding of prokaryotic and fungal (Ascomycota only) ribosomal DNA was used to describe the microbial communities in soils of a remnant equatorial rainforest, maize–bean intercrop, and sugarcane in western Kenya. ...