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This paper discusses micro-level practices for adapting to climate change that are available to small-scale farmers in Africa. The analysis is based on a review of 17 studies about practices that boost small-scale farmers' resilience or reduce their vulnerability to observed or expected changes in climate; it includes data from more than 16 countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The review shows that African smallholders are already using a wide variety of creative practices to...
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This paper examined the three domains from which the outputs from the secondary schools were measured. It was discovered that the products were of poor quality. The poor quality was however, as a result of the multi-faceted problems bedeviling the system in Nigeria such as: inadequate funding; inadequate facilities; low morale of teachers; poor supervision of schools and frequent changes in educational policies. The roles of the principal in meeting these challenges were also examined as the...
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This study examined the relationship between principal's leadership behaviour and effectiveness of secondary schools in Nigeria. The descriptive research design of the survey type was adopted. The population consisted of all the teachers and principals in the public secondary schools in South West Nigeria. The sample was however made up of 1200 teachers and 60 principals from 60 secondary schools across 3 states in the region. Multistage, simple and proportionate stratified random sampling...
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: Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr. Wilbert Chagula Library, Class mark (THS EAF LC212.83.T34T45)
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Climate change has been acknowledged as being indisputable. The response of the international community has included the drafting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. In order to prevent catastrophic climate change, developed country parties to these agreements were required to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by certain agreed percentages. At the last Conference of the Parties held in December 2009 in Copenhagen, agreement was not reached...
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This quantitative cross-sectional study examines sexual behaviour of a target group of hearing-impaired persons in Yaounde, the capital city of the Republic of Cameroon. It measures their HIV prevalence to enable assessment of their sexual vulnerability and to help reduce the gap in existing HIV serology data among people with disabilities in general and the deaf in particular.The snowball sampling procedure was adopted as an adequate approach to meet this hard-to-reach group. A total of 118...
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The Libyan manufacturing industry has traditionally suffered from a shortage of skilled manpower. In 1990s, a network of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions were introduced for the purpose of enhancing the supply of skilled manpower needed for the economic and social transformation plans. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of the Libyan TVET system in providing the skills needed by the national manufacturing industry. To achieve this...
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This paper seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the environmental crisis by examining the nature and extent of the environmental crisis and then exploring, in detail, how environmental education, in general, and a re-conceptualized environmental education, in particular, could, within the framework of schooling, be made a potent weapon in the war against an environmental crisis, similar to what has happened in the war against HIV/AIDS pandemic. While the paper readily...
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Early school leaving is one of the major problems facing the education system in Uganda. Effective intervention programmes are needed to address this situation. This chapter examines the elements of good-quality and effective intervention programmes for early school leavers, from which Uganda can benefit when designing new interventions or improving existing ones. The international literature on intervention practices is reviewed, followed by the presentation of a case study from Uganda,...
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High resolution surface climate variables are required for end-users in climate change impact studies; however, information provided by Global Climate Models (GCMs) has a coarser resolution. Downscaling techniques such as that developed at the University of Cape Town, which is based on self-organizing maps (SOMs) technique, can be used to downscale the coarse-scale GCM climate change projections into finer spatial resolution projections. The SOM downscaling technique was employed to project...