Sabasabaurban water supply project was undertaken in order to increase the number of people in low-income areas within Murang’a County with access to clean water at their door-step. In carrying out the project, World Bank ...

Over the years, the Ministry of Lands has made significant progress in automating their records however the effect of automation has had minimal effect on employee performance therefore this study sought to assess the ...

Blue ocean concept plays a critical role in strategic management in organization especially in tea industry which has led to tremendous growth over the past years. It is in regard to this strategic focus that this study ...

The primary objective of the study was to address the knowledge gap concerning the effect of strategy implementation on business performance within the context of Kenya. The specific objectives of the study encompassed the ...

need for palliative care services has increased with the rise of patients with terminal illnesses. Unfortunately, there is a need for more research in palliative care, especially on end-of-life care and in African societies. ...

Iron and folic acid are micronutrients that are essential for normal physiological function, growth and development as well as maintenance of life. Iron and folic acid supplementation (IFAS) is one of the most affordable ...

Bilateral Tubal Ligation (BTL) is a highly effective contraceptive method with more than 99% effectiveness at preventing pregnancy. Its uptake remains low in Sub-Saharan Africa at 1.6%. The Kenya Health and Demographics ...

The study sought to look at the effect of Porter’s generic strategies on firm performance of Tyre dealers within Nairobi County. Tyre demand remains high in the country owing to the high motorization rate of the population ...

There has been drastic growth in the microelectronics industry in the recent past.These industries utilize different materials, the main being thin-film semiconductors. The performance of these materials is influenced ...

Public participation (PP) is a key constitutional principle outlined in the Constitution of Kenya. It promotes democratic and accountable exercise of power. It gives the citizens opportunity to enhance self-development ...

This study investigates the systems that contribute to the sustainability of the kayamba, a musical instrument linked to the Mijikenda community in Kenya. The kayamba has been resilient throughout the significant historical ...

Hypertension is a serious problem across the globe because of its high mortality rate per year. High Blood Pressure (BP) has no warning signs nor symptoms, and measuring the BP level is the only way to know about a ...

The issue of students’ enrolment and student welfare has been the concern of education researchers around the globe. This study attempted to establish the relationship between increased student enrolment and delivery of ...

The prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is on a rising trend. This is worrying because the complications are severe. Billions of dollars are also spent in the management of DM. Cost-effective interventions are available ...

nformation technology is the backbone for all 21st -century organizations that are looking forward to offering better customer service and gaining a competitive advantage. Today, the blockchain technology is being ...

The energy demand in today’s society is ever increasing because of the continuous increase in population. Solar energy that uses solar cells which converts solar radiation to electrical energy is of great importance. ...

The purpose of this study was to analyze selected factors determining corporate cash holdings of Commercial Banks in Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were; to assess the effect of liquid asset substitutes, ...

Small and Micro Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the Kenyan Economy. The sector contributes approximately 80.6 percent of new jobs created in the country every year. Despite their significance, SMEs are ...

Generation Y teachers present a challenge to school managers in terms of providing to them desirable leadership that can make their strengths become a benefit to the school. Research has identified dealing with the ...

Small businesses are the engines for economic development both in developed as well as developing countries. Most of the existing studies on debt financing have focused on large scale firms using data from macro level ...

Kenya‟s CDF was a concept implemented in 2003 through the Act of parliament, whose aim was to address the challenges at grassroots level through the provision of funds to empowerment of community-based projects in all ...

Implementation of Human Resource Management policies by governments in developing countries has not translated into development and quality service delivery. Leadership is integral to achieving government goals. This ...

This study examines the contribution of financial distress indicators to corporate failure for commercial banks in Kenya. Specifically, the study examined the contribution of cash flows, liquidity, solvency, profitability ...

Working capital management involves planning and controlling current assets and current liabilities in a manner that eliminates the risk of inability to meet due short term obligations on the one hand and avoid excessive ...

Kenyan banking sector has experienced rapid growth in profits, deposits and revenues in the recent years and this has triggered a lot of competition among banks. In response, banks have developed new strategies to weather ...

Medical facilities in Kenya have made efforts to adopt Electronic Health Records systems at various levels and for different use cases. However, there lacks a robust and secure system for sharing sensitive and confidential ...

Popular music is an important ingredient in the day-to-day lives of many young people, especially the youth. In Kenya, this genre has not been included in the secondary school music curriculum. The glaring omission of ...

This study sought to establish the financial management literacy and application among University students as a contingency against unemployment in Kenya. The specific objectives included: to find out the savings ...

The financial market in Kenya has been growing over the past decade and it is increasingly becoming more competitive.Since new entrants appear in the market every now and then, banks must find ways to maintain a ...

Financial Management practices are vital in any investment, given that there are many investment opportunities available in Kenya. The role of financial management practices on the returns of organizations has not been ...

Microcredit is important in increasing income activities, creates employment opportunities and also leads to better living standards of people. It has assisted many, especially women who are unable to get loans from ...

Low secondary school completion rates have been linked to factors such as social-economic and social-cultural characteristic of students, low intrinsic motivation to learn, parental influence and lack of role models in the ...

Background Gestational DM has been associated with increased risk of perinatal mortality and morbidity however, screening recommendations are not clearly described in Kenyan guidelines. Kenyan studies have shown wide-ranging ...

Vasectomy is a safe, cheap, easy to perform a method of contraception. However, its uptake in Burundi is low. Moreover, matters of family planning are packaged as a female responsibility than male, and it is not clear what ...

Upper respiratory tracts (URTI) are acute, self-limiting infection. In 80% of cases, the cause is viral. Consequently, routine antibiotics prescribing to treat URTIs is not justified as they have no clinical benefit and ...

Family owned businesses play a crucial role in the economy through employment creation, income generation and also in accumulation of wealth. However, the family owned businesses face performance challenges such as poor ...

Globally about one fifth of children less than five years are stunted with more than a third from Africa. Stunting is low length for age with poor cognitive and physical development. It occurs in the first 1000 days of ...

Globally about one fifth of children less than five years are stunted with more than a third from Africa. Stunting is low length for age with poor cognitive and physical development. It occurs in the first 1000 days of ...

Cancer is the third leading cause of mortality in Kenya. Eighty percent of cancer cases present at advanced stages, when little curative care can be done and palliative care is their best option of care. Majority of the ...

The transport and distribution of the petroleum products by Kenya Pipeline Company is key in the social economic development of the country. Efficiency in the transport and distribution of the petroleum products ensures ...

Population growth and urbanization have led to water scarcity and pollution which is a health hazard not only to human but also the ecosystem in general. This has necessitated coming up with ways of treating water before ...

Service delivery is the main mandate of the public sector and efficiency is critical to service delivery. However, the public sector has experienced several challenges in service delivery provision that impact the quality, ...

The greatest challenge facing organisations is whether their staffs are motivated to perform their duties and whether employees find their work interesting and meaningful. The ways jobs are designed have an important bearing ...

Leadership has the ability to bring a vision into reality by making swift decisions and inspiring others. Leadership is guiding people and the company in the right direction through empowerment and inspiration, objectively ...

Volunteer leaders‟ competence is emerging as one of the changes that both profit and non-profit organizations have to accommodate especially as more people look for opportunities to serve, learn, gain new organization ...

The county governments continue to face challenges around the world. In the County Government of Nakuru, the auditor general continues to document diverse financial performance challenges. The purpose of this study was to ...

With the development of strategy, strategic literature aspect of human resource management in the organisations has been among the most remarkable subjects of research papers. The 21st -century companies are keen on human ...

Tier one commercial banks in Kenya operate under an extremely competitive environment in which there is competition for market share, customer numbers, loan clients, deposits and profitability levels. One of the strategies ...

The vast majority of Kenyans lack any form of health insurance. Thus, they find it difficult to raise money for health expenditure. As a result, studies elsewhere have shown an obvious disadvantage to uninsured individuals ...

The study sought to investigate the effects of ethical accounting practices on financial reporting of listed firms in Kenya. The study therefore examines the effects of accounting objectivity, professional competence, ...

Financial distress prospect is a key bother to the executives and different business partners for quite some time. The impact of financial distress and bankruptcy on firms is hard to the extent of ignoring it is impossible. ...

Oral literature has been taught as integrated in the English syllabus for some time in Kenya. Various researchers have carried out studies on the implementation of the integrated English syllabus. Their general conclusion ...

Privacy invasion is an offence perpetrated by availability, access, and use of advanced mobile devices when they land in the wrong hands of people who have the intention of infringing into the space of either individuals ...

With the advent of devolution in Kenya, it is possible that most of the conflict in the public sector organizations today stem from the restructuring of government. Many County governments are yet to resolve some teething ...

Working capital management is a key issue in financial decision making since its overall goal is to ensure that a firm is able to continue its operations and that it has sufficient ability to satisfy both maturing short-term ...

The banking system plays a crucial role for any economy and any form of disruption in its functioning would have negative effects on the whole economy. It is therefore important to know the factors that influence the ...

Internal control plays an important role in preventing and detecting fraud and protecting the organization's resources, both physical and intangible but fraud is still reported. At the organizational level, internal control ...

The study analyzed the relationship of WCM on financial performance, taking the case of Firms in the Commercial and Services Segment of NSE, Kenya. Specifically, the study analyzed the effect of accounts receivable, accounts ...

Small and Micro Enterprises play a vital role in job creation and make significant contributions to economic growth in developed and developing economies alike. However, one on the main challenges of small and micro ...

The performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is considered one of the driving forces for developing countries like Kenya, where the economy has benefitted greatly from the contribution of SMEs. The traditional ...

SACCOs operating front office services are required by law to comply with the regulations stipulated in the SACCO societies Act enacted in the year 2008. The authority is mandated to: license, regulate and supervise the ...

Strategic change management has been gaining ground in organization recently, including technology based firms like Telkom Kenya. The general objective of the study was to the role of selected management practices in ...

Most organizational valuable information exists in the form of documents, be it correspondence, memos, policy documents, contractual agreements and reports. Crucial business processes are not only based on but also driven ...

Security companies have resulted to Business Continuity Management (BCM) practices in an effort to ensure continuity of business operations. Organizational performance is crucial and BCM is one of the key driving forces ...

Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs), like other financial institutions, own critical assets that must be protected against attackers even as the threat landscape continue to persist. This study provides a ...

Working capital management entails the relationship between a firm's current assets and its current liabilities and it plays an integral role in financial decision making. It involves the management of the most liquid ...

Frequent reports of frauds in the financial sector in Kenya especially within the Banking sector have been reported over the last several years (2008-2014). In the second quarter of 2010, out of 102 corporate fraud cases ...

Firms have always sought ways to gain a competitive advantage over their competitors; one avenue that firms have pursued to improve their competitive position in this new business environment is to increase the role of ...

Road traffic accidents have been a major cause of deaths in Kenya. The effort by Kenya police to enforce traffic laws has done little to salvage the situation. Although there has been other remedies towards curbing road ...

Over the past five years, development in Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) has assumed high preposition in Kenya. The trend could be attributed to: their renewed provision of products and services that banks either ...

In keeping with the advancement in technology, savings and credit cooperative societies have in the recent past undergone major technological leaps in the provision of banking services by adoption of mobile banking technology. ...

The hotel and tourism industry contributes a significant proportion of country employment and earnings in developing economies. In Kenya the hotel and Tourism sector contributes 14% of the Gross Domestic Product. Nakuru ...

The promulgation of a new constitution of Kenyan on 31st August 2010 effectively created two levels of government; the national and county governments. Provision of health services is one of the functions that were devolved ...

The main problem facing tax authorities in any jurisdiction lies in persuading all tax payers to comply with obligations put on them by any tax system. Tax is an important stream of revenue for government’s development ...

Ergonomics is about how key components of an office, for example, physical work settings,unique characteristics of an employee, organizational characteristics andworkstation equipment are customized to fit and improve ...

The purpose of this research study was to investigate the effect of M-Pesa utilization on the performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Nakuru town. MPesa is an SMS‐based money transfer system that allows ...

Commercial banking sector in Kenya is one of the most important facilitators of economic growth, driven by competition and government regulations which have led to innovations of various channels of bank service delivery; ...

Firms across all industries continue to face the most disruptive market conditions in decades. Increased competition has only accelerated and the battle for market share is now more aggressive in the telecommunication ...

Audit reports by the office of the controller of budget for three consecutive years from 2013 – 2015 revealed gross financial mismanagement and a fall in revenue collection even after County Governments have put in place ...

Collaboration is currently one of the key elements of institutional competitiveness. In the face of continuous world economic changes, competition allows many institutions to improve and accelerate their collaboration ...

Quality in higher education has been important for decades. In Kenya, quality in universities was embraced some years back by facilitating the vigorous vetting of programmes; matching the programmes with the existing ...

Private healthcare system in Kenya have grown tremendously over the last two decades due to various reasons, among them lack of adequate and quality public healthcare services and introduction of user fees. This study ...

The main goal of every microfinance institutions is to maximize profits in order to maintain their financial stability, improve growth and sustainability. However, high levels of loan delinquency create credit volatility ...

This study analyses the relationship between corporate social responsibility and brand equity of Universities in Kenya. Many corporations seem to engage in socially responsible behavior as part of their normal business ...

Risk based supervision (RBS) is a structured approach that concentrates on the identification of potential risks faced by firms and the assessment of the financial and operational factors in place to minimize and mitigate ...

The rationale of this study was to examine the factors that influence the adoption of Information Technology outsourcing by insurance companies in Kenya, with specific interest in four key factors; Establish how Financial ...

Financial sustainability requires appropriate risk based audit practice hence effective and efficient internal audit. Most non-governmental organizations are faced with sustainability challenges which can be attributed to ...

Women Enterprise Fund as any other credit business is exposed to credit risks. Credit advanced to women by WEF come along with credit risk challenges. How the fund has handled these risks challenges among women is not ...

The widespread use of mobile phones, the various information access it provides to its users, and the vast presence and significant impact of mobile phone on users’ daily life make mobile phones important devices to study. ...

This study aimedtoexamine theeffect of corporate governance on financial performance of Energy sector state corporations in Kenya. Specifically, the study sought to examine the role of internal controls, stakeholder ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of strategic responses to advances in technology on organization‟s performance: looking at the evidence from textbook publishers in Kenya. More specifically, the ...

The importance of social media in enhancing positive relationships between customers and business cannot be ignore since they offer new and innovative ways to communicate and network via the internet. Currently, there are ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate agency banking and its effect on non-financial performance of Commercial Banks in Kenya. More specifically, the study sought to establish the extent to which system security, ...

The role of financial service accessibility as a growth strategy at equity bank has received considerable attention in the last twenty five years showing effective connection. The specific objective therefore was to assess ...

Risk based supervision (RBS) is a structured approach that concentrates on the identification of potential risks faced by firms and the assessment of the financial and operational factors in place to minimize and mitigate ...

The performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is considered one of the driving forces for developing countries like Kenya, where the economy has benefitted greatly from the contribution of SMEs. The traditional ...

SACCOs operating front office services are required by law to comply with the regulations stipulated in the SACCO societies Act enacted in the year 2008. The authority is mandated to: license, regulate and supervise the ...

This study attempted to establish the effect of unionization on employees’ performance in family owned businesses in Kenya. The need to manage employee performance every day is the key to an effective performance management ...

Since the 1990s, poverty reduction has taken priority at both national and international development levels. Within this framework, various initiatives have been taken. Microfinance has caught the attention of many Aid ...