Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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LAND USE, LAND COVER CHANGES AND IMPLICATIONS ON SURFACE WATER ACREAGE IN KOITOBOS RIVER CATCHMENT IN TRANS NZOIA COUNTY, KENYA.
(MMUST, 2025-03)Globally, many countries are facing pressure to meet the livelihood needs of their fast-increasing populations. This often leads to overuse of natural resources and consequent encroachment on fragile ecosystems such ... -
INTERNAL FACTORS AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF NAIROBI SECURITIES EXCHANGE-LISTED COMMERCIAL BANKS IN KENYA
(MMUST, 2025-10)The banking sector in Kenya plays a vital role in providing financial services, which contributes to the economy's growth. Despite these contributions, commercial banks in Kenya have faced extreme challenges in the ... -
INFLUENCE OF YOUTH PARTICIPATION ON POLITICAL PARTY VIOLENCE AT NOMINATION STAGE IN HOMABAY COUNTY, KENYA
(MMUST, 2025-03)Youth participation influencing political party violence is a global concern, affecting democratic processes worldwide. In Africa, this issue undermines stability and governance. Regionally, within East Africa, such ... -
IMPLICATIONS OF BIOMETRICS TECHNOLOGY IN MANAGEMENT OF IDENTITY-BASED CONFLICTS BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR IN NAIROBI CITY COUNTY, KENYA
(MMUST, 2025-07)Nairobi being a highly populated and cosmopolitan city has faced personal identification challenges due to the influx of people from other countries, impersonation, increased criminal activities, identification of ... -
IMPACT OF SPATIOTEMPORAL LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE ON LAND UNDER MAIZE CULTIVATION IN LIKUYANI SUB-COUNTY, KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA
(MMUST, 2023-12)Likuyani Sub -County is ideal climate and high-quality soil for farming, especially maize cultivation—a major crop in Kenya—Likuyani Sub-County has established itself as the nation's main hub for the production of maize ... -
EFFECTIVENESS OF USABILITY LEARNING MODELS AND USER SATISFACTION IN UNIVERSITIES IN NAKURU COUNTY, IN KENYA.
(MMUST, 2023-06)Effectiveness has been increasingly recognized as a significant quality dimension to determine the usability of mobile applications. Mobile learning applications on the other hand are different in many ways from those ... -
EFFECTIVENESS OF ECOSYSTEM-BASED ADAPTATION STRATEGIES FOR FLOOD MITIGATION IN LAKE NAIVASHA CATCHMENT, KENYA
(MMUST, 2025-03)Several factors are affecting the hydrological cycles but human activities have played a major role in the experienced hydrological changes. Some human activities such as agriculture and industrialization have contributed ... -
EFFECT OF SELECTED MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS ON AGRICULTURAL EXPORT PERFORMANCE IN KENYA
(MMUST, 2024-06)Agricultural exports are key drivers of the Kenyan Economy. They contribute significantly to foreign exchange earnings, job creation, and economic growth. Kenya’s Vision 2030 highlighted agriculture as a crucial economic ... -
ROUTINIZATION ARCHITECTURE FOR e-HEALTH IMPLEMENTATION IN KENYA: A CASE OF KAKAMEGA COUNTY
(MMUST, 2025-10)Routinization is the process by which practices, procedures or a technology becomes standardized or routinized into daily workflows (no longer questioned, becomes norm). The incorporation of e-Health into healthcare ... -
PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS AND ADJUSTMENT ON JOB PERFORMANCE OF TEACHERS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERIOD IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KAKAMEGA CENTRAL SUB-COUNTY KENYA
(MMUST, 2025-10)Psychosocial stress resulting from Covid-19 and the resultant psychosocial adjustment to the pandemic could have had a significant impact on the job performance of teachers in secondary schools. The stress may have ... -
IMPACT OF SELECTED MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES ON PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FINANCING IN KENYA
(MMUST, 2025-10)Healthcare financing is a critical aspect of ensuring access to quality healthcare services for individuals and populations worldwide. However, macroeconomic factors have posed challenges like eroding the real value ... -
IMPACT OF RIPARIAN ZONE DEGRADATION ON FLOOD OCCURRENCE AND MANAGEMENT IN THE NAIROBI RIVER BASIN, NAIROBI CITY COUNTY, KENYA
(MMUST, 2025-11)The Nairobi River basin riparian zone is critical to the ecological and hydrological stability of Nairobi City County, Kenya. However, growing urbanisation, pollution, and deforestation have reduced its ability to ... -
GEO-POLITICAL DYNAMICS INFLUENCING MARITIME DIPLOMACY BETWEEN KENYA AND SOMALIA
(MMUST, 2025-06)Globally, there has been an often emergence of maritime border disputes. For example, maritime disputes between China and Vietnam, China and Philippines, United Kingdom and Argentina over Antarctica just to mention a ... -
EFFICACY OF MULTIAGENCY SECURITY APPROACH IN ENHANCING ECONOMIC SECURITY IN LAMU COUNTY, KENYA
(MMUST, 2025-07)Kenya's multi-agency security approach in Lamu County faces significant challenges. Despite initiatives like the Lamu Port-South-Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport Corridor, residents continue to endure insecurity, land grabbing, ... -
EFFECTS OF DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT IN KIAMBU: A CASE OF KIAMBAA SUB COUNTY
(MMUST, 2025-03)World over, where drugs and substances are known, patterns for their use and abstinence are proscribed. In Kiambu County, various nationally and internationally recognised drug and substance abuse management practices ... -
EFFECT OF SELECTED MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS ON UNEMPLOYMENT IN KENYA
(MMUST, 2025-11)Kenya has been struggling with high unemployment rates which have remained constant with more fiscal expenditure and government investments, which have mainly been funded through the external borrowing. In the past ... -
COST EFFECTS OF ASSISTIVE DEVICES ON THE HOUSEHOLD WELFARE OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA.
(MMUST, 2025-11)Persons with disabilities have been recognized by United Nations Convention on the Rights of persons with disabilities that, such individuals should have the same rights to freedom, respect, equality and dignity as ... -
SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF SUSTAINABLE WATER SUPPLY IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY
(MMUST, 2024-07)The Government of Kenya has been implementing the water sector reforms since the enactment of the Water Act 2002 to improve sector efficiency and accelerate water service provision. In Kakamega County, 43 per cent of ... -
KENYAN-EGYPTIAN DEFENCE COOPERATION INFLUENCING THE MANAGEMENT OF INTERNECINE CONFLICTS IN THE NILE BASIN
(MMUST, 2025-08)Basin politics are frequently compounded by power asymmetries, begging the question of how to manage with riparian hegemons for example in Rhine,Tigris-Euphrates,Turkey, Egypt, India and China, in addition Nigeria or ... -
INFLUENCE OF SEASONAL RAINFALL FORECASTS ON MAIZE YIELD IN TONGAREN SUB-COUNTY, BUNGOMA COUNTY, KENYA
(MMUST, 2025-09)The two main seasonal rainfall forecasts that are important for maize production in the Tongaren Sub-County are the March, April, May (MAM) and the June, July, August, September (JJAS). The main objective of this study ...