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The African Great Lakes (AGL) harbor over 25% of the world’s unfrozen freshwater, and provide essential services to over 62 million people. Understanding the ecological functioning and social–economic values of these resources is critical to inform their mid- and long-term sustainable use. Management and protection of the lakes also depends on riparian communities’ involvement and knowledgeable experts that can address issues that arise, yet freshwater education and training in Sub-Saharan...

Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) program is a national school-based sexual education intervention program to prevent the spread of HIV among young people in Nigeria. The FLHE curriculum was first implemented nationwide in 2003. However, there have been challenges mitigating the implementation of this intervention. An important challenge is the low capacity of teachers to adequately deliver the contents of the developed curriculum. Considering the significant roles teachers play in the...

Sex education helps in preparing adolescents to have responsible attitudes and behaviour towards sex for a harmonious sexual life. This study assessed the level of knowledge and attitude towards sex education among secondary school students in an urban south-western Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional design. Multistage sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 378 students from a population of 3674 students in public secondary schools. A pre-tested...

Promoting the education of girls and young women is a powerful strategy for empowering them in societies influenced by traditional patriarchal cultural norms. Hawa Aden Mohamed, a Somali educator, has been urging action on women's rights for over twenty years. Following years of exile during civil unrest, she returned to her homeland in 1999 and established the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development, a non-government organisation committed to strengthening the capacity of girls...

The crucial role which groundwater resource plays in our environment and the overall well-being of all living things can not be underestimated. Nonetheless, mismanagement of resources, over-exploitation, inadequate supply of surface water and pollution have led to severe drought and an overall drop in groundwater resources’ levels over the past decades. To address this, a groundwater flow model and several mathematical data-driven models have been developed for forecasting groundwater...

In this study, we examined the determinants of choice of variety including DTMV, local variety and combination of the two varieties using multivariate probit model. In addition, we examined factors influencing adoption of DTMV and access to credit among the maize farmers using endogenous switching probit model (ESPM). Consequently, we ascertained the probable effects of adoption of DTMV on maize productivity using endogenous switching regression model (ESRM) in South West, Nigeria. We used...

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate evaluation of food safety training programs in the food service industry in Tanzania
 Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily...

The catchment area of Ebonyi River at Eha-Amufu, Enugu State, Nigeria serves as the main source of drinking water to the immediate community. However, there is dearth of information on the pollution status of this important River. The study assessed the heavy metal enrichment of catchment area of Ebonyi River at Eha-Amufu, and its suitability for human consumption using relevant heavy metal pollution indices and heavy metal toxicity load. A total of 54 water samples were collected from three...

Blended learning strategy has become one of the most prominent E-learning strategies which has recently proven its effectiveness in higher education, the study was conducted in Music Department of Faculty of Specific Education at Alexandria University in Egypt, and 10 first-year undergraduates participated in it. A positive effect of blended piano learning aids on professional skills development in piano learners, including their attitudes towards blended learning. Overall the effectiveness...

Groundwater is essential for the sustainable growth of society, economy, and agriculture. Identifying potential zones for groundwater is required to fulfill the needs of various sectors. This study aims to identify prospective groundwater zones in the drought-prone Harawa catchment area of the Somali region of eastern Ethiopia using geospatial and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) approaches. Eight significant groundwater regulating variables were developed by combining primary and remote...

<span lang="EN-US">This study aimed to apprehend the scale’s role in education planning and performance. The national scale approaches tend to neglect local specificities. The relevance of the provincial and local scales is underlined in Draa-Tafilalet region (Morocco). By comparing the provincial data and indicators to study the education system's efficiency, we argue that these are pertinent scales to further understanding the needs, causality and key parameters of education....

Sonic wave transit times are the major logs for estimating pertinent geomechanical parameters including overburden stress, pore pressure, effective stress, and unconfined compressible strength among others. These logs contain much important information about subsurface formation. However, in most oil and gas exploration wells, these logs are not usually acquired in all the wells which can be attributed to the high cost involved in logging. The application of the data-driven ML model has...

Droughts in Africa have a disproportionate detrimental influence on food security, water supply, social equilibrium and the economy compared to other regions in the World. Crop growth is principally rain-fed with highly seasonal rainfall regimes over most of the Continent. Hydraulic infrastructure and harvest storage are scarce. Drought is primarily initiated by a lack of precipitation, and it spreads slowly to soil moisture, vegetation, streamflow, and groundwater, affecting the entirety...

Due to increasing climate variability and change, the need for more accessible, timely, and reliable climate information has risen, particularly in African rain-fed smallholder farming communities. Yet, studies on the role of information sources in climate resilience are limited. Given the plurality of climate information sources, it is uncertain which medium offers better chances to build resilience against the changing climate. To fill this gap, we employed quantitative survey data from...

This paper investigates the integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in higher education institutions in Antsiranana, Madagascar. It examines the challenges, policies, and leadership strategies affecting this integration, highlighting Antsirananas specific context within the broader Malagasy educational landscape. The paper develops a conceptual framework identifying key factors for successful ICT integration, combining insights from Antsiranana and wider Madagascar....