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Reaching youth with the peace message

Michael Owiso (Dr. Gerald J. Wanjohi, 1995)

The youth in the world and particularly in Africa, are seen to be the most active in the different wars of our times. In Rwanda, images of young people were anstantly featured on our T. V screens, canying guns and executing ...

The Colonial Transformation of Agriculture in Siaya 1894–1945

Pius Ouma Cokumu (PhD, Kenyatta University, 2001)

This study focuses on agricultural change in Siaya between 1894 and 1945. The study contends that the people of Siaya had an efficient, self-sustaining and dynamic agricultural system prior to the advent of and establishment ...

Performance of women-owned enterprises in Mumias town

Osore Zakayo (Nairobi university, 2003)

This study examines how socio-economic characteristics affect the performance of women owned enterprises in Mumias town. This study builds upon the premise that differences in socio- economic characteristics affects ...

This study is about Nile perch market liberalization and chronic poverty among fishing community in Suba District. It identifies the socio economic characteristic of chronically poor households among Nile perch fisher folks. It also investigates how Nile perch markets liberalization have caused and sustained chronic poverty among Nile perch fisher folks' households. The study has made use of the adverse incorporation and social exclusion, institutional framework and structures of competition as conceptual frameworks to analyze its findings. The study had two stages of data collection; The first stage was data collection through participatory chronic assessment seminars, whereby, the participants were selected from sampled beaches. Second stage of data collection was by administering structured questionnaires to chronically poor households identified by the participants from chronic poverty assessments seminars based on locally perceived attributes of chronic poverty. Statistical Programme for Social Science was employed to analyze the quantitative data while content analysis was used to analyze qualitative data. The study finding reveals that chronically poor are not homogeneous groups among fishers. They consist of female-headed. households, uneducated headed households, windows, and people with disabilities among others. The study also reveals that Nile perch market liberalization occasioned changes in the traditional Nile perch trade. Those who were not able to adapt to the dynamics of external trade were marginalized and relegated into chronic poverty. The following were mentioned as drivers to chronic poverty: low volume of fish catch, expensive fishing gears, over fishing, lack of loaning institutions, over dependence on fishing, government fishing policy, direct Nile perch marketing, and mismanagement of fishing co-operative societies, theft of fishing gears, death of breadwinners, poor road networks and lack of external market information. The maintainers of chronic poverty include: low volume of fish catch, lack of saving culture and institutions, poor financial planning, lack of loaning institutions, monopoly of fishing, and modernization of fishing methods, government policy, and high price of fishing gears, direct trade, illness and middlemen exploitation. In line with study findings, the study makes recommendations to address the issues of chronic poverty among fisher folks' communities. Addressing chronic poverty is complex and complicated hence requiring multiple responses and partnership approach. These responses should address literacy levels, gender inequality, attitude change, specific scheme of social protection and diversification of sources of livelihood and incomes.

Osore Zakayo (University of Nairobi, 2003)

This study examines how socio-economic characteristics affect the performance of women owned enterprises in Mumias town. This study builds upon the premise that differences in socio- economic characteristics affects ...

Socio-economic characteristics and the performance of women-owned enterprises in Mumias town

Zakayo Osore (University of Nairobi, 2003)

This study examines how socio-economic characteristics affect the performance of women owned enterprises in Mumias town. This study builds upon the premise that differences in socio- economic characteristics affects ...

The social and economic contributions of the united nations system in kenya

Jane K Lusenaka (University of Nairobi, 2003)

This project examines the social and economic contributions of the UN system in Kenya since independence. The focus of the study is on the agency specific contributions towards social and economic development. These ...

Interfacing the state and the voluntary sector for African development: Lessons from Kenya

Wanyama, Fredrick O (CODESRIA, 2006)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of forging a complementary role between the state and the voluntary sector as an alternative framework for enhancing African development, given that none of these ...

Nile perch market liberalization and chronic poverty: drivers and maintainers of chronic poverty among fishing community in Suba district

John O Owuor (University of Nairobi, 2008)

This study is about Nile perch market liberalization and chronic poverty among fishing community in Suba District. It identifies the socio economic characteristic of chronically poor households among Nile perch fisher ...

Conflict between state sovereignty and the right of intervention under the Constitutive Act of the African Union

Tom Mboya (Maseno University, 2009)

he need to redress crimes against humanity and violations of human rights has underpinned the global idea of international intervention in the domestic sphere of a state's jurisdiction in the last two decades. This article ...

Book Review: “The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on power, God and World Affairs” Written by Madeleine Albright and published in 2007 by pan Macmillan Ltd, London

Wangamati M (Masinde Muliro University, 2010)

Voting without institutionalized political parties: Primaries, manifestos and the 2007 general elections in Kenya

Frederick Wanyama (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 ...

Economía Social y Solidaria: nuestro camino común hacia el trabajo decente

Fonteneau, Benedicte; Neamtan, Nancy; L, Wanyama; Pereira Morais, L; N, Ojong (2011)

The Media, Terrorism and Political Mobilization of Muslims in Kenya

Mwinyihaji, Esha Faki; Wanyama, Fredrick O. (2011)

Social and solidarity economy: Our common road towards decent work

Fonteneau, Bénédicte; Neamtan, Nancy; Wanyama, Fredrick; Morais, Leandro; Poorter, Mathieu de; Borzaga, Carlo; Galera, Giulia; Fox, Tom; Ojong, Nathaneal (2011-10)

This chapter aims to explain the meaning and nature of the social and solidarity economy (SSE). The SSE is all around us and refers to familiar realities for everyone in the world: we are all members of at least one ...

Co-operatives and Policy Advocacy in Eastern Africa

Wanyama, Fredrick O (2012)

Taking stock of socio-economic challenges in the Nairobi Slums

Olang' Sana, Okoth Okombo (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2012)

Kenya s post-2007 elections violence was a landmark event in the country s political history and led to the death and displacement of over thousand people. The Nairobi slums are one area that was adversely affected by the ...

The social and solidarity economy in African development: The role of cooperatives

Wanyama, F (2012-08)

Non-tarriff barriers and the economic integration the East African community

Gilbert Kiplimo Kimutai, Aluvi Patrick Amisi (ZENITH International Research & Academic Foundation (ZIRAF) India, 2013)

The key objective for the adoption of the East African Community (EAC) Customs Union in 2006 was to enhance the economic integration of the region through the elimination of tariffs and non-tariff barriers (NTBs). This ...

Some positive aspects of neo-liberalism for African development: The revival of solidarity in co-operatives

Wanyama, Fredrick O (2013-01)

The history of cooperative development in Africa has left a mixed conception of these organizations. Whereas some observers regard them to be neither voluntary nor members’ organizations, but extensions of the government; ...

2 Political Leadership and Development in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania

Wanyama, Fredrick O (2013-04-01)

The promise of development was taken to heart in virtually all African countries at independence. However, 50 years later, it remains unfulfilled for the majority of the people. Many analysts have attributed the lack ...