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Abstract This contribution analyses Article 12 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa (the Protocol). It examines the purpose, scope and contribution of this Article to the legal protection of persons with disabilities in armed conflict and its implementation. The analysis is divided into four parts. The first part will start by identifying and analysing the background to this provision, which provides specific...

University students are known to have risky sexual behaviours (RSBs). The severity of the RSB is influenced by many factors, including the family environment, exposure to adverse childhood events (ACEs), and the use of addictive substances. However, there is limited information about the influence of ACEs and the family environment of these students in low-and medium-income countries (LMICs). Therefore, a pilot study was conducted among university students from a LMIC, Uganda.The present...

The purpose of this research was to establish the relationship between mothers’ socio-economic engagement and pre-primary school children’s school participation in learning in pre-school units under public elementary schools found in Kilifi South Sub-county of Kilifi County, Kenya. There has been underlying problem in Kilifi County that the research study sought to look into; that despite the remarkable increase of mothers in socio- economic activities in the county, little had been done to...

Climate change has been linked to increasing rates of malaria infection in Western Kenya. Projections show an increased risk of malaria infection under climate change scenarios, impacting vulnerable populations and placing millions of people at risk. Developing suitable risk management strategies requires understanding the hazard, exposure, vulnerability and response to climate change and malaria risk in the context of other local environmental, socio-economic and socio-cultural factors...

The advent of globalization has brought with it a drastic change in the education sector in Kenya. The flexibility of new learning environments is an interesting aspect that is now commonplace in learning institutions. The interaction of people across the globe brings about a merging of cultures, experiences, skills, and expertise. In addition, the global market presents learning institutions with a wide student base that are willing to enroll in their educational programs. Education has now...

This study sought to point out how education support programs were successful in the creation of competences in students at higher learning institutions/ university level in Rwanda. Using the Generation Rwanda Program as a case study, the study aimed to show that to achieve student competence, it requires more than paying tuition fees and sending a child to school. The specific objectives of the study were; to establish success stories from Generation Rwanda scholarship beneficiaries; to...

The government of Kenya implemented a policy advocating for Education Management Information Systems (EMIS). This is because the manual system for managing the students’ record is becoming more cumbersome affecting the management of secondary schools. In this regard the study investigated the influence of EMIS for Student Information Management on Management of Public Secondary Schools in Uasin Gishu County. The study adopted pragmatic philosophical paradigm and employed mixed methods...

Nyamnjoh and Luescher ask about the capacity of 'academic freedom' to offer a conceptual framework in understanding the recent student protests in South African higher education that demanded a 'free decolonized education'? In their view, the nation-wide student protests signifying a 'decolonial turn' in South African higher education present two co-constitutive opportunities in terms of academic freedom: They provide an opportunity to foreground students as a key constituency in discourses...

Population and Development ReviewVolume 48, Issue 4 p. 1217-1220 DOCUMENTS Climate Change and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa First published: 15 November 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12528Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley...


 
 
 
 Wealthy nations must step up support for Africa and vulnerable countries in addressing past, present and future impacts of climate change
 
 
 
 
 The 2022 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a dark picture of the future of life on earth, characterised by ecosystem collapse, species extinction, and climate hazards such as heatwaves and floods.1 These are all linked to physical and mental health problems,...

There is a growing interest in greening schools, campuses, and workplaces due to the perceived ecosystem services provided by trees. However, students’ willingness to participate in and financially support the greening process is less examined. Using a questionnaire survey based on the contingent valuation method (CVM) and Likert scale, 1278 students from 13 universities were interviewed on their willingness to participate in tree planting and pay for their maintenance to promote green and...

With the rapid adoption of online learning spaces since the advent of COVID-19, more and more calls are being made in higher education to move from emergency remote teaching and learning to appropriate online education. Although much has been written about the designing of online learning from both a technological and pedagogical perspective, limited contemporary literature is available to understand the complexity of interdisciplinary collaborative online learning. This limitation is...

This is a positional paper, which endeavours to indispensably provide an emancipatory view of gender disparity, with a particular focus on rural female learners’ progression in Advanced Level science subjects. This discussion was guided by a framework derived from feminist, and social learning standpoint. The methodological approach used to generate and analyse participants' lived experiences comprised of the transformative paradigm, and qualitative approach. The sample for this study...

First-time university students lack the practical and complex skills to harness, evaluate, use and create information to achieve their educational, occupational, social and personal information goals. The purpose of this study was to explore students’ perceptions of user education programmes at the North-West University, South Africa. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 320 students across two faculties. The study’s findings reveal that the majority of first-year...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the metacognitive reading strategy awareness and use of second language learners majoring in English in a Tunisian university. For this purpose, a sample of 113 Tunisian tertiary education students volunteered to answer an online survey based on a modified version of the MARSI inventory (Mokhtari et