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Adaptation to climate change in general and particularly to climate variability in pastoralism is receiving increasing attention. This study assessed the impacts of climate variability on livestock watering and the subsequent adaptation strategies developed by breeders in the agro-pastoral area of Gogounou, Benin. Monthly climate data (rainfall and temperature) from 1985 to 2015 were analysed using Mann Kendall and Pettitt tests. In addition, primary data on local perceptions of climate...

The broad objective of this study is to examine the effect of ownership structure on goodwill impairment in listed financial institutions in Nigeria. Ownership structure is proxies using director’s shareholdings, ownership concentration, institutional ownership and chief executive officers shareholdings. The study used a purposive sampling technique and filter out financial institutions that do not satisfy the criteria set out for inclusion thereby arriving at the sample size of twenty five...

In recent decades, photovoice has become a popular method in research that involves children as active research participants. This paper focuses on the procedures and methods of gathering and interpretation of data from a photovoice project with children in rural Sierra Leone. Photovoice in this project was an integral part of a more wide ranging multi-modal study on gender, well-being and schooling of primary school children. The inclusion of photovoice as an additional method of data...

School Health Service (SHS) is one of the five main components of the School Health Programme aimed at ensuring every child remains healthy to benefit maximally from his/her education. This study aimed to assess the level of implementation of SHS in primary schools in the Gwagwalada Area Council of the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory.a cross-sectional study was carried out in primary schools in Gwagwalada Area Council using a weighted School Health Service assessment checklist.a total of...

Vocational rehabilitation seeks to restore individuals with disabilities to their optimal, physical, mental, social, vocational, and economic ability. These individuals with disabilities include persons with visual impairment. Visual impairment has a devastating effect with deep emotional and economic complications. The loss of vision after an illness or trauma causes major changes in lifestyle and habits which may results to problems in psychological adjustment. This study investigated...

Universities can play a key role in contributing to a sustainable future for our planet and its inhabitants. In times of constant changes, there is a growing urgency to reflect on the vision of universities as well as their respective practices and projects that can promote the creation of sustainable societies. As is evident in scholarly literature, there is a need to empower universities and enhance their ability to prepare individuals who can confront global sustainability challenges and...

Objective: The purpose of this work was to study the factors of cancellations or postponement of regulated operating programs of the Orthopedic-Traumatology unit of Yalgado Ouédraogo University Teaching Hospital.Materials and Methods: This was a prospective descriptive study over a period of six months.All interventions postponed or canceled during the study period were included.Patients who died or were lost to follow-up before surgery were not included.Results and Comments: the...

Background: Chronic malnutrition in children is a growth disorder resulting from a prolonged lack of nutrient intake. It is a widespread health issue in West and Central Africa where it affects one third (1/3) of children under five (05). This paper highlights the mitigation of child’s genderbased chronic malnutrition risk through maternal education.

hepatitis B is a severe disease that can be prevented by vaccination. However, few healthcare professionals, a group at high risk of contamination, are vaccinated against this disease in Burkina Faso. We conducted a study of healthcare professional students to evaluate their knowledge and factors associated with their propensity toward Hepatitis B vaccine.we conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive and explanatory study of 410 healthcare professional students of the National School of Public...

The process of data analysis provides, undoubtedly, some of the major challenges facing organizations during the implementation of interventions in emergencies. The challenges are primarily due to the lack of direct access to beneficiaries and the rapidly evolving nature of emergencies. This paper outlines how Plan International's Making Ghanaian Girls Great! (MGCubed) project used phone-based surveys to assess the uptake of a Ghana Learning TV (GLTV) programme implemented in partnership...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced most governments in Africa to temporarily close educational institutions in attempt to reduce the spread of the pandemic. In Uganda particularly, Higher Education Institutions, Universities and schools adopted the online and blended approaches to afford continuity of learning during the lockdown. This article provides a reflection of the opportunities, challenges and lessons learnt in teaching and learning of history during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative data...

Academic literacy, the ability to cope with the discourse demands of higher education, is believed to be a factor in the poor graduation rates among South African students. As a result, interventions to deal with low levels of this ability have been part of the broader effort by universities to boost student completion rates. In South Africa, two approaches to these interventions and the theories informing them have seen the light of day to date. In the main, these approaches and their...

Science of evolution is the basic of life and earth science (LES). It searches for mobilize the process and reasoning of tow scientific poles: functionalist and historical. Because it try together to reconstruct the history of living beings from their origins and to explain the working biological mechanisms in this process. Therefore, studies of evolution must respect this double polarization. In this article, we analyzed the programs of studied subjects in life and earth sciences for...

Distance education is an educational approach adopted by many universities, but its use as an alternative to traditional education has posed a real challenge to some universities around the world. The purpose of this study was to identify the difficulties encountered by students in a distance education system, and to this end, we relied on the descriptive approach using a questionnaire as an instrument for data collection, which was distributed to 117 financial management students from...

Hydrological drought, a regular phenomenon that could have a major impact on natural systems and human life, is aggravated by a water storage deficit. While Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite data-based drought monitoring has been widely studied in East Africa (EA), drought recovery time and anthropogenic factors, a prerequisite for drought management, are still missing. Here, a water storage deficit index (WSDI) and modified WSDI were utilized for analyzing a holistic...

Recent literature on education, economics and other related disciplines have shifted towards embracing the value of diversity, transformation and empowerment. Diversity as a teaching and learning tool in higher education has been popularized internationally. However, South African literature on higher education has revealed the scarcity of literature on the significance of diversity in teaching and learning. The sudden transition to online learning because of level 5 lockdown because of...

Ponte Academic JournalFeb 2022, Volume 78, Issue 2 TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ACCOUNTING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SOUTH AFRICAAuthor(s): Zikhona Seleke ,Balkaran Sanjay, Gobingca ZanoxoloJ. Ponte - Feb 2022 - Volume 78 - Issue 2 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2022.2.4 Abstract:Educators and students’ expectations have developed gradually in era of the last decade about how to teach, where to teach, and when to teach and study. Literature has revealed that traditional...