The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a study on how youth’s ideologies are affected by the different views of the various panelists on NBS’S Frontline political program. The researcher attempts to highlight the language use such as; arguments, debates, analogy, allusions, irony, comparisons, questioning, criticisms and its political impact on youth’s ideologies. This study has three objectives and first is to analyze the effectiveness of the language the different panelists use on the program. The researcher intends to present the type of language used and demonstrate how it portrays the panelist’s message to their audience (youths). Next is to examine how the panelists’ arguments on the show transform the ideologies of the youths. Youths ideologies are built on what they come to believe is true through what they hear from their circles of influence. The panelist’ arguments and discussions inspire specific attitudes and ideas in youth’s minds that eventually become ideologies. Lastly, to explore youths response towards the NBS’s Frontline program. The Frontline program is most popular among the youth. They feel informed, get to be exposed to intellectual yet entertaining political discussions concerning a country they look forward to serve themselves. As a result, they form slogans and choose political parties to belong. The information discussed triggers certain decisions among the youth including whom to vote into power during elections. Findings from this paper highlight the specific language used in different talk shows and what kind of ideologies are formed in the youth. This dissertation concludes with a recommendation for future research on how Television programs with open discussions such as NBS’s Frontline can build political ideologies among the youth.

The aim of this study was to examine the association between Intimate Partner Violence, Depression and Contraceptive Usage among Women. The study followed the following objectives; to find out whether there is an association between Intimate Partner Violence and Contraceptive Usage among women, depression and Contraceptive Usage among women and Intimate Partner Violence among women. The study targeted 191 men and a quantitative study design which employed a correlation research design method to establish the association between variables was used. A purposefully constructed self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from the 191 respondents. Collected data was analyzed using software called Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS-24) to find the level significance of the hypothesis. In conclusion, the study results showed that there is no significant relationship IPV and Depression. Furthermore, results showed that there is no significant relationship between IPV and Contraceptive Usage and the IPV is not significantly related to Contraceptive Usage among women. Lastly, results revealed that there is no significant relationship between Depression and Contraceptive Usage and the Contraceptive Usage is not significantly related to depression among women. This study recommends policy makers and the community at large to understand the nature and extent of the harm caused by IPV, especially as it relates to women‘s reproductive health and autonomy, and highlights opportunities for action. Policymakers can combat IPV and its consequences by promoting integrated policies and dedicating financial resources to support systems, programs, and services to address the intersection of IPV, health, and women‘s empowerment.

Introduction: Patients are required to share information with their doctors to facilitate correct diagnosis and determination of treatment, especially to avoid adverse drug interactions. However, most patients may refuse to divulge important information in cases of health problems such as psychiatric behavior and HIV status as their disclosure may lead to social stigma and discrimination. Despite efforts to fully implement and adopt Electronic Health Records System, there is limited attention to fully secure patients‟ details. Issues of privacy and confidentiality still remain a major concern at health facilities mainly in developing countries like Uganda. This study aimed to develop an encryption and decryption tool for privacy and confidentiality of patients‟ data stored in the Electronic Health Records Systems. Methods: The study used a design science research approach that adopted qualitative methods; Key Informant Interviews and Document review for data collection. The study was conducted at 2 study sites; Mukono district hospital (HC IV) and Doctor's Medical Hospital - Kampala. Participants were both health workers and Hospital Administrator working with the electronic health record at the respective health facilities. Data Flow Diagrams were used to design the desired artefact while development of the encryption and decryption tool, we used Hypertext Pre-Processor(PHP) time platform, which is an object-oriented programming language and is a block component that is made up of Cascade Style Sheet (CSS) and HTML(hypertext markup language ) embedded in PHP for it to be fully functional and be able to connect to and run on the server where most of the records and details of the activities are stored in the database. Results: This study was conducted between February and March 2021 and a total of fifteen (15) respondents were interviewed. The respondents pointed at various current mechanisms for privacy and confidentiality that included; user credentials, segregation of roles, training of users etc. while their challenges with adherence to privacy and confidentially such as loopholes with the existing mechanisms like a system taking long to log off when not being used, sharing of passwords, loss of passwords, not changing password after a period of time and hence a need for a second layer of security such as encryption and decryption tool. Conclusion/Recommendation: Inclusion of encryption and decryption features are very vital to enhance health facilities‟ capacity and measures for establishing privacy and confidentiality of patients‟ data. This will certainly limit unauthorized persons including hackers from accessing and utilizing patients‟ data as well as helping health information officers to keep track of log in history. The Ministry of Health, Uganda and implementers of EHR should adopt the encryption and decryption tool for use at the health facilities as second layer of security to ensure privacy and confidentiality of patients‟ data.

Potential voters face difficulty when registering to be legitimate voters, some of these difficulties includes: the long distances to be traveled for registration process, the long queues at the registration sites, the short time duration provided for registration, updating and viewing the voter register. In an effort to make the voter registration and voting process easier, this project report outlines the implementation of the electronic voting system based on current literature on voter registration and voting process, web security and latest software application. The electronic voting system allows the voter to register electronic and ensure the existence of his/her name on the voter register. Furthermore, it allows the voter to cast his/her vote and check for election results updates. Although the electronic voting system focused on the GULU UNIVERSITY Electoral Commission (UEC), it is important to note that it can be implemented for other electoral commissions in other Universities worldwide. The electronic voting system was evaluated and validated in terms of usability and feasibility. The electronic voting system is both usable and feasible, though fixes are recommended to meet the limitations. Trends in the quantitative data and logical inference based on the context of the evaluation suggest that the electronic voting system might help the electoral commission to produce more accurate voting process.

While the rise of mobile/ digital payments in Kenya- popularly known as M-Pesa - and its impact on reducing poverty and helping marginalized groups improve their ability to manage risks have been written about extensively, there has been much less attention paid to more recent developments in the rise of digital credit for mobile banking users popularly known as “digital loans” or “digital credit”. Since the launch of the first digital loan product in Kenya - MShwari - by Safaricom and the Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) in 2012, the country has experienced a significant increase in the size of the digital credit for mobile banking market, both in terms of providers and the total amounts of loans disbursed. For instance, as of 2018, a total of KES 230 billion have been disbursed by the M-Shwari platform alone. It is estimated that there were over fortynine other digital platforms in 2017. This brief focuses on youth borrowers as they have been identified as the major users of digital loans in the FinAccess 2019 study (FSD Kenya,2019). Furthermore, there have been concerns relating to late repayments, loan defaults and increase in the debt burden amongst the youth. This has been documented across all users of digital borrowers but rife among young users (ibid). Consequently, this study focused on understanding the reasons behind the over-indebtedness among the youth in Kenya. The research on which this policy brief is based is one of the first to estimate the levels of over-indebtedness and financial capabilities among youth digital loan borrowers in Kenya to give a detailed understanding of the sources of overindebtedness.

Organizations exist and operate as open system systems, continuously interacting with a dynamic and turbulent external environment. These interactions yield opportunities and threats, which are the strategic implications. The purpose of this study was to examine the strategic implications of devolved governments to the Local Authorities Pension Trust, and the management of the implications. The researcher used an interview guide to collect the necessary data, where he interviewed the top management in the organization, and applied content analysis tools to interpret it on the basis of strategic underpinnings. Evidence was adduced in the findings in support of the strategic implications of devolved governments culminating into opportunities and threats to the organization, including investments, markets, partnerships, resources and leadership opportunities and threats. It was also observed that the management of these strategic implications requires a multi approach, as there is no one sufficient criteria to harness all the opportunities and surmount every challenge faced by the organization. Strategic change, diversification, use of emergent strategy, strategic partnerships, and a holistic socio-economic products approach were the key methodologies used to manage the strategic implications. Thus, strategic implications are as inevitable as the organization’s interactions with the external environment, and as such organizations must be proactive in developing and sustaining appropriate responses for a guaranteed bright future. Nonetheless, further research is recommended to determine the factors affecting the implementation of pension schemes in county governments in Kenya, and also evaluate the relationship between pension schemes and devolved governments in Kenya.

This study sought to investigate the effect of selected accounting variables on stock liquidity for firm’s listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. In particular the study examined the effect of debt to equity ration on stock liquidity, the effect of dividend yield on stock liquidity, the effect of asset turnover ratio on stock liquidity and the effect of earnings per share on stock liquidity for firms listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The study was addressing the gap of whether the selected accounting variables had an effect on the stock liquidity and whether one can use them to predict the stock liquidity at the bourse. The study used a descriptive design model. The population of this study comprised of all the listed firms at the Nairobi Securities Exchange from January 2008 to December 2012. The sample constituted all the firms that comprise the NSE 20 Share Index. Analysis was conducted through the use of regression analysis and ANOVA. The results indicated that accounting variables, as represented by the predictor variables only influenced ten percent of variations in stock liquidity as indicated by the adjusted R square statistic. The model thus only explained a small proportion of the variations in stock liquidity. The study also found debt to equity ratio to have a positive and sizeable effect on stock liquidity. Thus a shift in debt to equity ratio influences a same direction shift of the stock liquidity; dividend yield to have a positive but lesser effect on stock liquidity. It was further inferred that the effect of dividend yield on stock liquidity was found to be half that of debt to equity ratio. Asset turnover ratio was found to have a negative and but slightly larger relationship with stock liquidity. This means that stocks shade off their liquidity with increase in the asset turnover and earnings per share were also found to have a negative relationship with stock liquidity. The ANOVA test of significance on the four predictor variables only found earnings per share to be of significance in predicating stock liquidity in the model. On the basis of the findings, the study recommends that of the selected accounting variables of firms in the Nairobi Securities Exchange only earnings per share can be reliably used as a basis for projecting stock liquidity variations of listed firms. It is therefore suggested that factors and accounting variables be studied to determine those that can be reliably used to predict stock liquidity variations at the Nairobi Securities Exchange.

The squatter issue has been a problem in Kenya since the advent of colonialism. Successive governments have not been able to adequately deal with the problem. This study explores the limitation of the current legal framework in addressing the squatter problem in Kenya. It shows the extent to which the classification of land in the Constitution is an impediment in dealing with the problem. It also navigates through the National Land Commission which is a constitutional commission and other institutions and their viability in dealing with the problem at hand. It also explores the concept of indefeasible title which has failed to mitigate the problem. The study draws best practices and concludes by stating that the country should resolve the problem and ensure that there is equitable access to land and security of tenure for peace and development. It recommends changes to the Constitution and the select land laws to address limitations if the current squatter problem is to be effectively dealt with.

This research project was a study on the various growth strategies adopted by Small and Medium enterprises with specific focus to Oyugis town. Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) make important contributions to economic and social development of any country. Consequently, the growth of the SME sector directly affects the performance of the nation. In all economies they constitute the vast majority of business establishments and they are usually responsible for the majority of employment opportunities created which account for one third to two thirds of the turnover of the private sector. The ability of SMEs to create, access and commercialize new knowledge on global markets is fundamental to their sustained competitiveness.The study used a descriptive research design. The study targeted SMEs operating in Oyugis Town, Homa bay County. The study selected a sample of 40 through simple random sampling technique. The study collected both primary data and secondary data where a questionnaire was used as source of data. The researcher administered the questionnaires individually to all respondents. Descriptive statistics was used to summarize the data. This included percentages, frequencies, bar graphs, pie charts and tabulations while qualitative analysis was done in prose. The study concluded that most of the business had embraced growth strategies such as marketing, pricing, market penetration among other strategies and such businesses have additional advantages such as increase in the total sales volume annum, increase in assets and remain competitive in the market. Likewise, the study concluded that that market penetration strategy is one of the growth strategies mostly adopted with most of organizations focusing on various aspects of market penetration. However, SMEs in the area under study are faced with various challenges such as stiff competition from large companies, changes in information technology and lack appropriate structures for dealing with SMEs in financial support, poor infrastructure, insecurity and the generalperception that they offer lower quality than bigger companies‟ hence dwindling SMEs potential even after the adoption of the growth strategies.

The aspect of employee satisfaction has now more than ever become more critical because of globalization of the workplace, incidents of organizations undertaking restructuring measures to maintain a leaner workforce and the need to build customer communities in a networked world. This study was motivated by the acknowledgment that retention of suitable levels of employee satisfaction and getting to know how to manage the factors that influence employee satisfaction leads to improved and increased organizational performance. For this reason, management has embraced the concept of employee motivation and satisfaction so as to retain the long term relationship with the employees in a cordial environment. The study was based on the fact that overall success of an organization depends on the commitment and engagement of the employed by understanding and promoting the factors that influence employees’ performance and adopting practices that improve flexibility of work schedules and quality of working life. The data for this study was collected using questionnaires from a sample of seventy employees representing about twenty nine percent of total employees in KWAL. The data was analyzed using descriptive measures, percentages and frequency distribution tables. From the research findings, relationships were found to exist between the survey independent variables with the dependent variables. Precisely the research established that factors that influence employee satisfaction include: Recognition, employee participation in management decisions; feedback, goals and on-job training. Besides, relationships were found to exist between the variables under study and the identified indicators per variable. The respective indicators of each of these variables were as follows: Recognition – Individual value, Performance, Gender equitability, Promotion, and competitive terms. Management – Teamwork, Decision making, Leadership skills, and Supervisors – subordinates relationships. Feedback – communication and Performance feedback. Goal indicated that the independent variables (i.e personal characteristics, job and role-related factors, professional commitment and HR practices) were stronger predictors of organizational commitment, job satisfaction and turnover intentions in professional employees than the technical employees. It was also noted that age, education, professional commitment, role overload, supervisory support, job security, promotional opportunities, distributive justice and participation in decision making were the most important predictors of employee satisfaction among employee. These results are significant for theory, policy and practice. Out of the insights of findings of the study, it is recommended that both Line and HR managers should try to understand factors and establish work-related practices that enhance the most ‘desirable’ component of employee commitment so as to promote employee performance and the organization as a whole.