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Abstract This study examined the associations between the services provided to the Most Vulnerable Children (MVC) in Tanzania (N = 234) by a faith-based community agency, referred to as PASADA, and multiple socio-demographic characteristics and MVC's primary school attendance. For lack of randomized treatment and control groups, the study employed a residualized change model to adjust for selection bias. This involved placing a pre-test (Time 1) measure of the number of days MVC attended...

Environmental<b> </b>health officers play a key role in the delivery of preventive and promotive health services in Kenya. This is important given that Kenya is yet to make an epidemiological transition and still grapples with preventable diseases. Training opportunities and promotion are key motivators for this cadre of health workers. An analysis of the January 2007 environmental health staff returns for two districts was done with a view of determining frequency of promotions and...

Entrepreneurship is a dynamic process of vision, change and creation. Indeed, at this period of national emergency and high rate of unemployment, the necessity to look for solutions becomes more than inevitable. Entrepreneurship over the past several years has become of growing importance to most nations of the world because of its contribution towards the identification of young, prospective entrepreneurs, their training and development towards being self employed, thereby reducing the...

Body image is a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon which contributes to serious developmental concerns for young adults. University students are particularly vulnerable to social as well as peer pressure associated with their physical appearance. The purpose of the current study was to examine the multidimensional perceptions of body image among male and female university students. A non-probability convenience sampling procedure was utilized and data from three hundred and forty-four...

CURRENT CONDITIONS The Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the south central part of Africa, is the continent’s second-largest country. Forests blanket its northern region, while savannah covers the south. Its population has more than tripled from 16 million people in 1960 to 64 million people in 2010. Although roughly 70 percent of the population depends on agriculture for survival, only about 7 percent of the DRC’s area is used for cropping and livestock activities. These areas...

AbstractEducation is a facilitating factor in the development of early society and the foundation laid by the teacher in the formal and informal setting(human and media)contributes to what a child turns out to be academically. The study investigated the contribution to early childcare education by female teachers. The area of study was Awka Urban Town of Anambra State. 420 female teachers in both public and private Nursery schools constituted the population of the study. Simple random...

The Falkenmark indicator was used to assess vulnerability of the White Volta (106,000 km2) and Pra (20,023 km2) river basins in Ghana to water stress under climate change for the periods 2006–2035 (representing the 2020s) and 2036–2065 (2050s). The indicator is a commonly used measure of water stress and defines thresholds of 1,700, 1,000 and 500 m3/capita/annum as water stress, water scarcity and absolute scarcity, respectively. Downscaled data from ensemble averages of two global climate...

AbstractThis study examined sexual coercion among University female students in South-West Nigeria. The sample consisted of 1,200 sexually coerced female students, selected from nine Universities drawn from South West using purposive sampling technique, simple random and stratified random sampling techniques. An instrument titled 'Sexual Coercion Questionnaire was used. The result showed that different forms of sexual coercion occurred among University female students and the level of...

Nigeria is blessed with natural resources, among which cocoa is key. Over the years cocoa production has been declining and various interventions have been directed to improving production and productivity of cocoa in Nigeria. One of these interventions is the Farmers’ Field School (FFS) approach. FFS employs a non formal approach to pass across new knowledge of improved and good agricultural practice to farmers. Therefore, the study aimed to examine the effects of Farmer Field School (FFS)...

Teachers are important factor in quality education and therefore should be properly prepared and managed.The success of programs in early childhood education is contingent up the availability of personnel trained to meet the individual needs of children.This paper examines teacher preparation for effective management of early childhood schools in Nigeria as a requisite for effective management.This implies training and retraining of professionals in the area.The paucity of universities in...

This cross-sectional survey explored the extent to which students of the Polytechnic, Ibadan had perpetrated Non-Consensual Sex (NCS). A total of 594 randomly selected students completed a questionnaire and three perpetrators were interviewed in-depth. Mean age of the survey respondents was 22.7 +/- 2.9 years. Twenty-two percent had ever perpetrated at least a form of NCS, out of which 75.9% reported involvement in this behaviour in the six months preceding the study. Forms of NCS...

This thesis explores the links between gender relations and violence against girls in and around schools in Mozambique. A participatory approach to research was used to explore young girls’ and boys’ experiences of gender violence in homes, schools and streets. This involved interviews, focus group discussions and observation with a range of institutional actors: parents, family members, teachers, ‘sugar daddies’ and young people. The study is framed as an ethnographic case study and...

Background and Objective: Malaria remains a disease of public health importance in the developing countries. The purpose of this study was to determine factors influencing the utilization of ITNs among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at the UITH, Ilorin. Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional survey of pregnant women carried out in the antenatal clinic of UITH. The subjects were selected at booking and administered questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Epi-Info...

A study to determine the impacts of farmers field schools (FFS) on smallholders’ adoption of good agricultural practices in tea and to assess sustainability of smallholder tea production was conducted in the highlands of Kenya. Input-output data on tea management and on sustainability indicators (score 0-10) were collected from a sample of 120 FFS participants at the beginning of the study and from 60 randomly selected FFS participants and a comparison group of 60 non-FFS participants at the...