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Most of the climate change models for South Africa predict a reduction in freshwater availability by 2050, which implies that water availability for sectoral production activities is expected to decline. This decline has an impact on sectoral output, value added and households’ welfare. Using a computable general equilibrium approach, this study investigates the possible impact of global change on households’ welfare. The simulation results show that water scarcity due to global change can...
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The study aims to identify the most important reasons that led to the aggravation of the problem, the resulted consequences and the methods used in the city to dispose it. A minimum sample of 370 families was used and distributed for them questionnaire using the Stratified Relatively Sample. Chi Square was employed to analyze the statistical data and converted them into tables, percentages and graphics. The environmental awareness of citizens and methods of getting rid of the domestic...
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My study investigates school principals', teachers' and students' perceptions of democratic school leadership in secondary schools in Kenya and how these perceptions inform practices in their schools. The study is set against a background of a recent requirement by the Kenyan Government that school principals adopt democratic school leadership practices. This follows the enactment of the UN charter on the rights of children in 2001 and the subsequent ban on corporal punishment in schools....
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Since 2001 the Government of Kenya has instituted key changes to the management of secondary schools including the ban of corporal punishment in 2001, the strengthening of Parent Teachers Association (PTA) in the running of schools and the appointment of teachers at the school level. Embedded in the changes is the requirement that stakeholders - students, teachers, parents and the Boards of Governors - be more involved in the decision-making process and reducing, in theory, the powerful...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which higher education institutions (HEIs) in sub-Saharan Africa are seeking to make students more enterprising. To do this, the paper investigates the state of entrepreneurship course offerings, examines the opportunity to specialized studies in the area, and identifies entrepreneurship centers in business administration / management curricula. The results of the study demonstrate that most of the HEIs in the sample offer courses in...
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Indigenous knowledge in this paper is defined as the totality of local knowledge, tools and methods available to and used by a cultural group in producing items essential to its subsistence and comfort. Although this knowledge is important, little seem to have done to promote and utilize it neither has it been developed and documented for purposes of creating a d ata base. There has bee n lack of emphasis upon soc ial and psychological knowledge in schools and teacher training colleges...
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Provision of library and information services using mobile telephones is gaining popularity among library users worldwide. And some libraries have taken advantage of this technology in order to introduce new library services as well as reach library users that traditionally they would not able to reach. This paper looks at the possibility of introducing a mobile library service by the University of Zambia (UNZA) library as an alternative way of providing information to university students....
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The city of Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania, depends upon the River Ruvu for its main supply of water for a growing population of 4 million people. Current climate variability undermines the reliability of this water supply derived from river discharge. During a period of prolonged drought (1996/1997), a large number of water users turned to groundwater sources to augment insufficient supplies derived from surface water. Groundwater is available locally from relatively shallow Quaternary deposits...