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The Discussion Paper Series disseminates results and reflections from ongoing research activities of the Institute’s programmes. The papers are internally refereed and are disseminated to inform and invoke debate on policy issues. Opinions expressed in the papers are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute.
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Climate change episodes are increasingly complicating resource use, access and management in the majority of the developing countries.Parasitic weeds and crop diseases are hurting annual cereal yields.Application of agrochemicals to contain locusts, birds and insects that destroy produce have the propensity to kill pollinators such as bees.Essentially, pollinators play a critical role in ensuring ecological sustainability and food security.The study uses long-term historical data (1961 and...
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Summary This paper discusses the importance of a socially inclusive responsive energy policy to enhance energy access, especially for those with limited incomes and education. We are therefore proposing a framework that can be used by policy makers to pursue a socially inclusive energy policy. The proposed framework is used to assess existing energy policies for Kenya and Rwanda. The paper finally recommends the need for designing and implementing socially inclusive energy policies that are...
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Depression and anxiety are associated with lower academic performance among adolescents.In Kenya, up to 26.4% of school going adolescents have been reported to present with symptoms of depression and anxiety.This study aimed at testing the correlation between academic performance, clinical depression and anxiety among adolescents in selected secondary schools in Homabay County, Kenya.In a quasi-experimental study, nonequivalent pretest-posttest design was adopted to test correlation between...
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The aim of the paper is assess the pedagogical benefits of translanguaging using a quasi-experiment where two literacy classes with similar sociolinguistic composition were taught differently. In this case, the control class strictly followed the ‘monolingual’ language policy while the experimental class was taught using translanguaging. The idea was to see whether translanguaging could lead to any measurable literacy development benefits on the learner. Through interviews with the class...
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Higher education institutions are driven by various factors to engage in planned curriculum change. Nursing education institutions, which are part of higher education in most countries in Africa, have been engaged in significant nation-wide planned curriculum change for their nursing programmes in the last ten years. These planned curriculum changes have been an output of intensive financial, material, and human resource investments by nursing education institutions, governments, and partner...
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Postgraduate studies in South Africa's higher education and the world have come to occupy an important position not only due to the high level of professional development attached to it but also due to the significance of post-graduate research towards the university's research output. This chapter is based on a combination of informal interviews with supervisors and doctoral students, observing student supervisor interactions as well as personal experiences within the doctoral study trail....
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Abstract Majority of Kenya’s citizens reside in the rural areas where wood fuel is still the primary source of energy for cooking. Continuing reliance on wood fuel against the backdrop of burgeoning population poses huge threats to the country’s forest cover, undermining capacity for climate change mitigation and adaptation. This study conducted in Machakos and Laikipia counties explored; (i) women’s perceptions of the health risks associated with dependence of firewood for cooking, (ii)...
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Abstract Degradation of natural resources exacerbates a country’s vulnerability to the effects of climate change. IPCC projections suggest that countries within the horn of Africa, which include Kenya, will suffer most from extreme climate change events, particularly more frequent and prolonged droughts. Women and children suffer disproportionately from the consequences of environmental degradation. Public participation is one of the strategies governments pursue to combat environmental...
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Climate change is projected to cause unprecedented levels of global change and it will alter the ways in which humans currently rely on getting essential resources such as food. Africa is considered to be the most vulnerable continent to this change, with many countries that have low economic stability and insecure food sources a change to the way resources can be accessed could be detrimental to the population. One such example of this is agriculture: with the population expected to...