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Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Usambara–Lushoto, Tanzania (TZ0105)
(CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)The village baseline study of Kwang’wenda village in the CCAFS benchmark Lushoto site, Tanzania took place from April 27 to 29, 2011. Focus group discussions were conducted separately for men and women. Population growth ... -
Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Xai Xai, Zongoene Village, Bairro 1, Mozambique
(CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2014)This is the report of the village baseline study of Zongoene Village, Bairro 1, in the CCAFS benchmark site of Xai Xai, Mozambique in May 2013 to complement an earlier household baseline survey done in the same village. ... -
Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Yabello–Borana, Ethiopia
(CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)The village baseline of Denbela Saden village in the CCAFS benchmark site of Yabello in Ethiopia took place from 10th to 12th August 2011. Focus group discussions were conducted separately for men and women. Denbela ... -
Village Elites and Community Development in Kenya
(Maseno University, 2014-06-30)Current statistics show that urban growth rates are relatively higher in the Small and Intermediate urban centres in Kenya. This study sought to analyze the impacts of urbanization driven land use changes within the Mara ... -
Village Elites and Community Development in Kenya
(Maseno University, 2014-06-30)This paper looks at the role of village elites in a rapidly changing rural landscape. The process of development in Kenya has seen the rise of a dichotomous community in which salaried employees spend their working life ... -
Virtual Speech Community: A Sociolinguistic Analysis Of Kenyan Facebook Communication
(Maseno University, 2014)Rapid evolution of communication technologies has changed language use, thereby yielding new forms of discourse and authorship, as well as novel ways to create and participate in communities. Computer mediated communication ... -
Vitamin D status in healthy black African adults at a tertiary hospital in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross sectional study
(BioMed Central, 2018-12-01)Vitamin D has been known since the twentieth Century for its benefits in bone health. Recent observational studies have demonstrated its benefits in infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and non-communicable diseases ... -
Vitamin D status in healthy black African adults at a tertiary hospital in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross sectional study
(BMC, 2018)Background: Vitamin D has been known since the twentieth Century for its benefits in bone health. Recent observational studies have demonstrated its benefits in infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and non-communica ... -
Vitamin D status in healthy black African adults at a tertiary hospital in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross sectional study
(BioMed Central, 2018)Vitamin D has been known since the twentieth Century for its benefits in bone health. Recent observational studies have demonstrated its benefits in infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and non-communicable diseases ... -
vities of International Non Governmental Organizations ' in the Promotion of Human Security in Kakamega Count...
(Academia, 2021)Throughout the last quarter of the 20th Century, up until this day, there has been a gradual, yet enormous, qualitative and quantitative growth in International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) in Kenya. Amidst ... -
The voice of reason by the children in the wilderness
(Academic Journals, 2018)Wars and tribal conflicts disrupt young children who are dependent on their parents for care, empathy, attention and protection. Some children end up in refugee camps unaccompanied by their parents or guardians. ... -
Voluntary medical male circumcision program: evaluating technical efficiency, factor productivity and service quality in Nyanza, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2015)Health service delivery across Africa is characterised by widespread inefficiency and low service quality. In Kenya, factors that closely influence performance and the critical quality measure items of medical male ... -
Voluntary medical male circumcision scale-up in nyanza, kenya: Evaluating technical efficiency and productivity of service delivery
(Public Library of Science, 2015-02-23)Background Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) service delivery is complex and resource-intensive. In Kenya's context there is still paucity of information on resource use vis- à-vis outputs as programs scale up. ... -
Voting without institutionalized political parties: Primaries, manifestos and the 2007 general elections in Kenya
(Society for International Development and Institute for Development Studies-University of Nairobi, 2010)This chapter discusses the impact of institutional capacity of political parties on the organization of party primaries and formulation of manifestos for the 2007 general elections in Kenya. The discussion also assesses ... -
Voulkensin C–E, new 11-oxocassane-type diterpenoids and a steroid glycoside from Caesalpinia volkensii stem bark and their antiplasmodial activities
(Pergamon, 2013-05-15)A bioassay guided isolation of potential antimalarial molecules from the stem bark of Caesalpinia volkensii Harms (Fabaceae) achieved three new 11-oxocassane-type diterpenoids named voulkensin C (1), D (2) and E (3) together ... -
Vulnerability to HIV infection among Luo female adolescent orphans in Western Kenya
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2007-11-01)Large-scale surveys have reported that about 55% of orphans worldwide are adolescents. In Kenya, the majority of HIV-infected adolescents are females. The current study used the anthropological methods of in-depth case ... -
Wanzare Ogolla Zachariah Sika Ouma James
(Gjournal, 2016-08)This study investigated the extent of student participation management on institutional governance in public universities Kenya. The study was prompted by a recommendation by ministry of higher education in Kenya that ... -
Waste in the urban margins: The example of Delhi’s waste pickers
(Routledge, 2020-05-06)One important aspect of sustainability involves the flows of materials and energy, extracted, consumed, transformed and disposed of in the functioning of urban societies, which makes it directly linked to the ‘nested’ ... -
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) infestation cycle and interactions with nutrients and aquatic biota in Winam Gulf (Kenya), Lake Victoria
(Lake and reservoirs, 2021)Lake Victoria, like many other lakes in Africa, is affected by water hyacinth that reside in several bays for the majority of the year. The weed affects several economic activities of the local communities and denies revenue ... -
Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) Management and Utilization in the Lake Victoria Region
(Department of Horticulture Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, JKUAT, 2002)Water hyacinth has long been perceived as a problem for shipping and fishing industries and only more recently as a threat to bio-diversity. It can undergo rapid proliferation, forming dense mats of plants that cover water ...