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The study was carried out in Konoin Sub-County in Bomet County. The main objectives of the study are to establish the impact of child abuse on growth of child to adulthood. The specific objectives include to establish the types of child abuse common in Konoin Sub-County, to find out the cause of child abuse on the growth of the child from childhood to adulthood, to find out the challenges facing the society in confronting the child abuse practices in Konoin Sub-County in Bomet County and to suggest the policies to be adopted for effective control of child abuse in Konoin Sub-County in Bomet County. The study adopted a survey design. Target population of 600 was used to sample a sample size of 160 using the stratified sampling. Data collection instruments used was open and closed ended questionnaires. Validity and reliability was tested using a pilot study and data analysis was done using Microsoft excel. It was found out that the causes of child abuse among the secondary school going students (14-20 years) include: sexual abuse, corporal punishment neglect and physical injuries. The effects of child abuse to the society include: reduction in hope, brain retardment, physical deformity, truancy from high school, high level of pregnancy, poor performance in schools withdraw from the society, psychological tortures, permissiveness in the society, stress and ill health. The challenges include: poor government policies, corrupt law enforcers officers, unethical behavior in the society, and permissiveness in the society, business drift in drug selling, levels of poverty among the residents and cultures in the society. The researcher made sure the following recommendations enactment of policies by Parliament: Control the movement of children, reduction of the tendencies of permissiveness in the society and precaution on foreign culture. The researcher therefore suggests further study on the following areas to complement and supplement the findings of the study; the causes of child abuse in the non- school environment, the findings of child abuse in schools and child abuse in street children. (1)
The Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the regions highly affected by youth unemployment. It is estimated to be more than 21 %. It is estimated that 64% of unemployed persons in Kenya are youth. Interestingly, only 1.5% of the unemployed youth have formal education beyond secondary school level and the remaining over 92% have no vocational or professional skills training and the majority is found in the rural Kenya. Youths in Kenya who number about 12 million account for about 32% of the population. Participatory development is the most important approach towards enabling communities to help themselves and sustain efforts towards development work. Despite efforts by the government and other relevant such as NGOs to empower the youth through participation in community based projects, the youth have not fully participated. This study established the factors that affect the participation of youth in community based projects in Narok North constituency. The study was guided by four objectives, the first objective established how education and training of the youth influences their participation, established how capital and credit facilities among the youth influence their participation, determined how technology influences youth participation and the last objective examined the extent to which organizational policy of the CBOs influences youth participation in community based organizations, in Narok North constituency. The study was justified because there has not been any previous documentation on youth participation in Narok North constituency. The study conceptualized youth participation in community based organizations and it was guided by two theories ; the systems theory of management and the stakeholders theory. The relationship between the independent and the dependent variable was conceptualized. The study adopted a descriptive research design and focused on the 300 youth who are active on youth groups registered by the ministry of social services as its target population. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the officials of the groups while simple random sampling was used to select 30% that is 90 of the youth to participate in the study. The study used both primary and secondary data. Secondary data was obtained from existing literature while primary data was collected using questionnaires. A pilot study, Validity and reliability of the research instrument were done. Data was analyzed descriptively by the aid of Excel soft ware where the means, percentages and frequencies were computed and then presented using tables and charts, and interpretations made based on the study objectives. The study drew conclusions and recommendations based on the findings. (1)
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This purpose of the research project was to investigate the factors that affect women access to formal employment among the Maasai in Kajiado Central Sub-county. The purpose of the study was to determine factors affecting women access to formal employment among the Maasai community in Kajiado central sub-county. This study was guided by the following specific three objectives; (i) To find out effects of cultural factors on access to formal employment among the Maasai women in Kajiado central sub-county, (ii) To assess effects of socio-economic factors on access to formal employment among the Maasai women in Kajiado central sub-county, (iii) To evaluate the extent to which skills and knowledge effects access of Maasai women to formal employment in Kajiado central sub-county. Relevant literature on factors affecting women’s access to formal employment was revealed to expose the existing gaps and to offer an insight into the need for the current study. This study sought to investigate the relationship between women’s access to formal employment (dependent variables) and the following set of independent variables: cultural factors, socio-economic factors and lack of skill and knowledge. The study was conducted in Kajiado Central Sub-county. In this study descriptive research design which is appropriate for behavioural concept was used. For the purpose of this study 10% of the target population was used. Data was collected using questionnaires which were validated through preliminary pilot testing. The pilot testing method was used to determine the reliability. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive analysis with the help of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), and information obtained shall be presented in form of frequency tables, pie charts and bar graphs. Frequencies, percentages and chats were used to present the findings. Data was analysed in two sections, the first section is limited to the demographic characteristics of the respondents whereby the demographic characteristics analyzed included sex, age, marital status, educational level and unemployment period of the respondents. The second section involves the analysis and interpretation of findings as per the objectives, which are: the cultural factors that affect women access to formal employment; socio-economic factors that hinder women access to formal employment; the effect the level of education, skills and knowledge on access to formal employment among the Maasai women in Kajiado Central sub-county. The study summarizes the findings of the study, draws conclusions and offers some recommendations. (1)
This study seeks to identify the role of the cash transfer for orphans and vulnerable children to the orphans and vulnerable children wellbeing in Embu west district in Embu county. (1)
This study sought to investigate administrative impact of Restructured Provincial Administration (RPA) as independent variable on maintenance of law and order as dependent variable in Bomet County, Kenya in 2010-2014. Based on the theory of legitimate domination, it focused on four selected aspects of maintenance of law and order measured in 2006-2010 and in 2010-2014. These formed the objectives of the study and include: analysis of the nature and causes of crimes committed, establishing the frequency of joint security operations on illicit brews and reasons for not conducting them, establishing the duration of response to scenes of crimes and why and establishing the frequency of security committees meetings and what informed them. It employed a descriptive survey design, which targeted 223 security officers with a sample of 143 respondents drawn from four security agencies purposively chosen, namely the Provincial Administration, the Kenya Police Service, the Administration Police Service and the National Intelligence Service. Data was collected through a structured open and closed ended questionnaire and analysis of written records. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics tabulated using computer Statistical Program for Social Sciences and the MS Excel. The findings were interpreted and presented in percentages and frequency graphs and charts. The findings were: that the RPA had significant negative administrative consequences on the selected aspects in 2010-2014 compared to the similar period before, the RPA contributed to increased personal, property and statutory crimes, the frequency of joint security operations on illicit brews dropped from weekly basis to monthly and need basis, the duration of response to scenes of crimes increased from minutes to hours, and that the frequency of security committees meetings increased to weekly and need basis from monthly and need basis. The new command structure in the RPA, independent security institutions, inadequate resources and entry of County government, all had negative administrative impact on the fight against crimes, the frequency of joint operations on illicit brews, the duration of response to scenes of crimes, and the frequency of security committees meetings in 2010-2014. The government should consider re-restructuring the four security agencies to overcome overlapping chain of command to enhance enforcement and coordination, establish a clear law and policy on liquor that is universal to all Counties to streamline joint operations on illicit brews, avail adequate resources to enhance response to scenes of crimes and fully operationalize Article 239 (5) of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 to empower security committees. (1)
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