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This article provides informative insights into the failure of many Stakeholders to attain the desired Ugandan private secondary schools, to realise their desired revenue and how that failure has caused critical investment concerns due to negative impacts on expected returns on investment.Therefore, the study drew upon that to explore whether preventive control practices within the COSO control activities contribute to this failure.The study used an interpretivism approach and was guided by...
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The study sought to examine Effect of Change Effort in Raising Organizational Climate at the Kenya School of Government, Matuga Campus.The study adopted descriptive survey design with a total of 6 faculty and 22 nonfaculty staff considered for the study.The research instrument was subjected to a panel of experts and a reliability coefficient of 0.72 was achieved.The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics.The study findings revealed that for change to take place, a climate supportive...
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Academic stress is the bodys response to academic-related demands that exceed adaptive capabilities of students (Alsulami et al, 2018). Coping-strategies are specific efforts, both behavioral and psychological that people employ to master, tolerate, reduce or minimize stressful situations(Passer and Smith, 2004).Self-concept is the individual's belief about himself or herself, including the person's attributes and who and what the self is.To be aware of oneself is to have a concept...
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Abstract As climate change adaptation is becoming a recognized policy issue, the need is growing for quantitative economic evaluation of adaptation-related public investment, particularly in the context of climate finance. Irrigation, which enhances and stabilizes water supplies for farming, is a potential means of climate change adaptation, but attempts at economic evaluation of its effectiveness as an adaptation measure are few, in part because such assessments require an integration of...
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The purpose of this study was to discuss the provision of assistive learning/teaching resources provided in inclusivecolleges of the University of Rwanda. This study adopted the descriptive survey design. The target population was205 respondents who included deans of schools, resource room managers, lecturers, and students with visualimpairments. A sample size of 73 respondents selected through purposive, stratified and simple random samplingtechniques was used. Questionnaire and interview...
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Humanitarian crises are increasing in complexity due to the converging effects of climate change and conflict. Developing humanitarian projects in communities affected by disruptive climate effects ...
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Abstract This study explored the role of church leaders in addressing climate change with a focus on Catholic, Anglican, and Pentecostal churches in Nigeria. The study adopted a semistructured face-to-face interview with 30 church leaders drawn from the selected denominations (i.e., 10 church leaders from each denomination). These participants were spread across five states in five geopolitical zones in Nigeria. A descriptive narrative approach was employed in the thematic organization and...
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Climate change adversely affects agricultural production in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) such as Kenya. This can have important ramifications for local livelihoods and food insecurity and has often been linked to the erosion and loss of Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK). For instance, changes in agrobiodiversity management due to the dominance of modern agricultural practices based on a few commercial crop varieties can have important implications for food security,...
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The purpose of the study was to examine motivational factors for secondary school teachers to join ODL in Tanzania a case study of Kyela District. The objectives of the study were to assess the extent to which current needs, professional needs, future needs, curiosity satisfaction and social influence motivate secondary school teachers to join ODL. The theory which guided the study is the Human Capital Theory which was originally proposed by Schutz in 1961. The study employed quantitative...
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Abstract Objectives The aim of this study was to explore how nurse and midwife educators applied the knowledge and skills acquired from attending acontinuous professional development (CPD) workshop on teaching methodologies into their teaching practices in Rwanda. Methods A qualitative descriptive design was used with a purposive sample of 15 nursing and midwifery faculty members from six private and public post-secondary schools in Rwanda. Participants were involved in semi-structured...
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Abstract The objective of this study was to evaluate the pathways to enhance resilience to increased climate variability and directional change among pastoral households in Simanjiro District in Northern Tanzania. The study used household survey and rainfall and temperature data. Results indicate increasing temperature and decreasing precipitation trends over the past four decades. Also, extreme climatic events, particularly drought, have become more frequent. Food and water insecurity are...
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In Rwanda, the education sector involves many stakeholders and partners. One pillar in its monitoring and evaluation is constituted by sector education officers (SEOs). These SEOs monitor the implementation of a competence-based curriculum (CBC) to respond to beneficiaries. However, there is a lack of documentation that fulfils this need. Therefore, the present study qualitatively surveyed 29 SEOs via an online survey to learn from their CBC implementation and monitoring experience. The...