Department of Urban & Regional Planning: Recent submissions
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Applying a multi-level perspective to examine the potential transition to an accessibility-based approach to transport planning: Insights from cities in Sweden, Kenya and South Africa
(2019)There is a growing acknowledgement among transport planning scholars that the traditional, mobility-focused approach has created futures with undesired, unintended characteristics. A paradigm shift regarding the fundamental ... -
Roles of Local Governance Institutions and Promotion of Urban Agriculture Practices in Western Kenya
(International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 2020)The role of local government institution and especially institutional structures and political culture often shape government performance including livelihood supporting activities such as Urban Agriculture (UA). The changing ... -
Evaluation of incorporation of universal design parameters in the planning approval process of Kisumu main bus terminus
(East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 2021)Consideration of the normate template by designers usually leads to the production of living spaces that fail to meet most of the spatial requirements of would-be users. This phenomenon arises due to the fact that the ... -
Effect of Production Management Skills on the Production Level of ESP Financed Aquaculture Farms in Kisumu West Constituency, Kenya
(East African Journal of Agriculture and Biotechnology, 2021)The Kenyan Economic Stimulus Program was developed with an objective to spur regional development. The program targeted the establishment of 200 fish ponds in the selected constituencies in Kenya. Farmers were trained on ... -
Transit oriented development in medium cities in Africa: Experiences from Kisumu, Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2021)Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a planned area with land use that has optimal reach of public transport by urban populace it serves. Availability and accessibility of public transport minimizes reliance of use by ... -
Effect of management skills on performance of economic stimulus Program financed aquaculture farms Kisumu west constituency, Kenya
(Adventist University of Africa, Kenya, 2021)In the endeavour to stimulate the Kenyan Economy after the post-election violence in 2008, the Economic Stimulus Program (ESP) was developed so as to jumpstart the economy. Commercialization ... -
Accessibility of water services in Kisumu municipality, Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2010)One of the key challenges to the developing countries is increasing access to safe water supply to the rapidly growing urban population, consequently, billions of dollars have been invested in pursuit of the goal of ... -
The paper reviews the local institutional landscape, information challenges and opportunities for climate change adaptation that institutions within the Mara River Basin can utilize to support communities. At the local level, government, civil society and private sector institutions are at the frontline in harmonizing adaptation practices towards resilience to climate change. Local institutions act as the bridge between the national institutional frameworks and facilitation of local adaptation practices. The socio-political institutional landscape at the local level and its linkages provide institutions with climate change adaptation governance frameworks to enable undertake adaptation. However, information is a major challenge that hampers smooth uptake of adaptation knowledge and skills. This includes scarcity of information; limited access to available information; technical presentation of information; the cost of information; and poor flow of information in institutions. There are information opportunities within the landscape which can enhance institutions’ internalization and application of adaptation practices.
(International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2019)This study evaluates the institutional structures and their role in hindering or supporting adaptation to climate change. Structures are frameworks around which coordination, planning, management and logistics takes place ... -
Local Institutional landscapes and Information challenges as a crucial element for climate change adaptation: A case of Mara River Basin, Keny
(International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2019)The paper reviews the local institutional landscape, information challenges and opportunities for climate change adaptation that institutions within the Mara River Basin can utilize to support communities. At the local ... -
Rural women’s participation in Agro forestry and its implications on a sustainable environment in Nyando District
(University Of Nairobi, 2002)Poverty has led to a deterioration of the rural environment in Nyando District. This study set out to examine women’s participation in agroforestry as a land use approach that can contribute to a sustainable rural environment ... -
Catchment Property Rights And The Case Of Kenya's Nyando Basin
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005)Attention to watershed management is increasing across the developing world. In India, for example, more than US $500 million is invested in watershed projects every year. There are compelling reasons to believe that this ... -
Hydronomics and terranomics in the Nyando basin of Western Kenya
(2005)This paper uses the concepts of hydronomics as systems of rules that define water management and terranomics as systems of rules that define land management and explores their linkages in rainfed agriculture and irrigation ... -
Dynamics of poverty, livelihoods and property rights in the lower Nyando basin of Kenya
(CORE, 2005)Much institutional analysis in the water sector at national as well as global levels has focused principally on the working of law, policy and administration of water sector—the three pillars of water institutions. In ... -
12 irrigation management and poverty dynamics: case study of the Nyando Basin in Western Kenya
(Academic Press, 2007)Three distinct pathways of irrigation development have been pursued in Kenya over the last 20 years: a topdown planning approach, a centralized service approach and an unregulated smallholder approach. All three pathways ... -
Securing Water for the Environment in the Mara River of Lake Victoria Catchment, Kenya and Tanzania
(2008)The Mara River basin encompasses some of the world’s most unique ecosystems and human communities, tightly linked by their dependence on water from the Mara River. From its headwaters in Kenya, the Mara River flows through ... -
Rural livelihoods in changing, multifunctional landscapes
(ICRAF, 2011)The main argument in this section is that changing (or 'transforming') landscapes and lives are mutually dependent on each other, as they are closely linked in time and space. Within the landscape continuum, the roles of ... -
CCAFS village baseline study-implementation manual
(CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2011)This implementation manual is to be used in conjunction with the step-by-step guide, as well as the templates for the debriefing document and the site analysis report. In the first half of 2011, CCAFS will undertake ... -
Dynamics of street vending phenomenon in the Kisumu Municipality, Kenya
(International Journal of Arts and commerce, 2012)Street vending is the sub-sector of informal businesses that operate in urban spaces meant for other uses. It was believed that street vending would be absorbed by modern sector with time but instead it has grown to providing ... -
Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Lawra–Jirapa, Ghana (GH0108)
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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 ...