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When natural disasters strike in developing countries, households are often forced to choose between preserving assets or destabilizing consumption: either can result in permanent consequences. In this paper we ask: can insurance transfer risk in a way that reduces the need for households to rely on costly coping strategies that undermine their future productivity? Since 2010, pastoralists in northern Kenya have had access to a novel index-based drought insurance product. We take advantage...

When natural disasters strike in developing countries, households are often forced to choose between preserving assets or consumption: either can result in permanent consequences. In this paper we ask: can insurance transfer risk in a way that reduces the need for households to rely on costly coping strategies that undermine their future productivity? Since 2010, pastoralists in northern Kenya have had access to a novel index-based drought insurance product. We analyze the impact of a...

When natural disasters strike in developing countries, households are often forced to choose between preserving assets or consumption: either can result in permanent consequences. In this paper we ask: can insurance transfer risk in a way that reduces the need for households to rely on costly coping strategies that undermine their future productivity? Since 2010, pastoralists in northern Kenya have had access to a novel index-based drought insurance product. We analyze the impact of a...

lecture hall one day to do a presentation on largeclass teaching, I was cornered by an earnest young man who demanded to know,

At independence in 1980, the new majority governmen t of Zimbabwe embarked on an ambitious but necessary programme to expand education provision as well as remove bottlenecks and other discriminat ory practices which the colonial government had pursued. Issues of access and qualit y in education took centre stage as the new government sought to fulfil promises mad e during the protracted liberation struggle. In the first two decades of Zimbabwe's in dependence, significant strides were made...

Background : Competency-based education and the validity and reliability of workplace-based assessment of postgraduate trainees have received increasing attention worldwide. Family medicine was recognised as a speciality in South Africa six years ago and a satisfactory portfolio of learning is a prerequisite to sit the national exit exam. A massive scaling up of the number of family physicians is needed in order to meet the health needs of the country. Aim : The aim of this study was to...

Summary Associative color learning has been demonstrated to be very poor using restrained European honey bees unless the antennae are amputated. Consequently, our understanding of proximate mechanisms in visual information processing is handicapped. Here we test learning performance of Africanized honey bees under restrained conditions with visual and olfactory stimulation using the proboscis extension response (PER) protocol. Restrained individuals were trained to learn an association...

This study investigated the attitude of teachers towards teaching profession, the existence and causes of teachers’ turnover and the impact of teachers’ turnover on academic performance in government secondary schools in Tanzania particularly Mbozi District. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used. Stratified was used to select schools from rural and urban areas while simple random sampling was used to select 200 respondents. Data collection methods were; documentary...

In this article, the author utilizes the culturally congruent work of Gay (2010) and Ladson-Billings (2009) to highlight culturally responsive teaching as a viable option for African American students in higher education mathematics spaces. He offers translations of Gay and Ladson-Billings’ work to Africana mathematics and argues that these practices increase access to rigorous culturally responsive mathematics and enact the brilliance that African American students bring to the mathematics...

This paper examines the existing relationship between employees satisfaction and their job performance by analyzing the determinants of the two variables (Satisfaction & Performance); how they complement each other and what is the impact of this relation to an organization so as to widen the understanding of the phenomenon to both employers and employees in order to increase performance and achievements with reference to Tanzania’s education sector. Considering teachers work in...

Many academics struggle to find the balance between research, teaching and community engagement. At the same time, universities in many countries tend to prioritise research. In South Africa, Faculties of Education often struggle more, relatively, with the demand for increased research outputs. Part of the reason lies in the 'major shifts' that are required to change the identities of the teacher educators from teachers to researchers. This is because many of these academics are recruited...

This project, entitled “Mobile Online Learning for Human Rights”, was conducted in cooperation with the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) in their Spider project “Reforms through citizen participation and government accountability”. The primary goal was to create a platform to spread information about human rights to any Kenyan for free in order to increase knowledge and engagement. The research goals of this project were to explore the viability of using a Massive Open Online Course...

This viewpoint paper presents some findings of a participatory action research programme carried out by teacher trainers at the Lesotho College of Education (LCE) in order to integrate education for sustainable development (ESD) into its courses. It reveals how social learning brings about deep meaning as students connect subject content knowledge through participatory learning to their sociocultural backgrounds. Participants were later interviewed to ascertain their views on teaching for...

Worldwide, it is estimated that over half of all medicines are prescribed, dispensed or sold inappropriately, and that half of all patients fail to take their medicine correctly. Measuring drug use is a requirement for improving drug use either at the individual facility or national level. Much work has been done by World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Network on Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD) in providing tools for such measurements. The main objective of this work was to...

The historical responsibility for today's climate crisis rests in the hands of rich industrialised countries, while developing countries in many cases face its most devastating effects. Hence, climate change also raises issues of moral responsibility and the protection of human rights. Although there is a general understanding among the world's leaders that rich nations have to take the lead in reducing global emissions and paying for developing nations to initiate mitigation measures and...