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Child sponsorship is one of the strategies adopted globally to fight poverty among the disadvantaged and impoverished in the community. Sponsorship, as a development model, began in the 1930s, and throughout the subsequent decades has evolved from a direct benefit relationship to one that benefits the broader community. Compassion international is among the leading global charities that adopted child sponsorship model in empowering local communities in fight against poverty. Compassion’s sponsorship program focuses on holistic approach to poverty and focuses on four main domains namely: the spiritual, physical, socio-emotional and educational/economic needs of a child. Compassion achieves this through a partnership model with local churches. This study sought to establish the influence of Child Sponsorship on Community Empowerment in Limuru District. The survey was conducted through interviews of the formerly sponsored youth in this region, the church leaders and Project Directors of Compassion Assisted Programs. One hundred and ten questionnaires were issued to randomly sampled formerly sponsored youth in four compassion assisted projects in Limuru District. The questionnaires that were duly completed and returned were ninety eight questionnaires which represented a response rate of 89%. The study results showed that formerly sponsored children were actively involved in the community and had significant influence at the community-level decision making process. Based on the findings of this study, it was evident that child sponsorship has a significant positive influence on the community empowerment in Limuru District in Kiambu County. Whereas education support was rated the highest in the ways Compassion’s Child Sponosrship was empowering the community, inadequate funding for furthering education was cited as a common obstacles among formerly sponsored children after they left the sponsorship program. The study recommends that more funding is committed to programs that can empower the caregivers to ably take-up the responsibility of furthering the education of their children after sponsorship funding is expired.

The environment around radio navigation aids systems (navaids) includes buildings whose roofing materials interfere with signal propagation. This interference may cause partial loss of intelligence in communication between navaids and flying aircrafts. Buildings around airports have been restricted partly because they pose threats to flight navigation. This restriction as captured in the Laws of Kenya has not been supported by sufficient data. Previous studies have shown that about half of air accidents occur during landing. However, no data has been availed to determine the contribution of navaids to these accidents. The purpose of this research was to study effects of roofing materials on air navigation signal propagation. The method involved use of a 9.4GHz transmitter, a receiver and a computer to measure signal level transmitted through roofing materials at various angles of incidence.

Agricultural information dissemination is an important aspect in the quest to improve agricultural productivity both in Africa and specifically Kenya. Many experts have over the years identified radio as the best media for this purpose. Therefore, vernacular radio is ideally, best placed to provide agricultural information to its listeners because majority of them live in rural areas, practice agriculture as a source of livelihood, and might not have an in-depth understanding of English and/or Kiswahili. However, the commercial leanings of most emerging vernacular radio stations could be hampering this important role. This study was conducted on agricultural programmes aired on Kass FM radio, a vernacular radio station broadcasting in the kalenjin language in Kenya. A content analysis was done on agricultural programmes aired in the months of June July and August 2012, to find out the effect sponsors had on the content of the agricultural programmes they sponsored. Based on the findings, it was concluded that sponsors of agricultural programmes in Kass FM greatly influence the content of the programmes they sponsor. This has in effect greatly limited the number of topical issues in agriculture discussed in these programmes and thus creating a bottleneck in the amount of agricultural information that can be transmitted to farmers in Kass FM’s agricultural programmes.

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This study was conducted with the aim of establishing how social capital influences career successes of the staff at the County Government of Mombasa. The study also sought to establish how social capital influences extrinsic factors of career success; and how social capital influences intrinsic factors of career success. The study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study comprised the 2,650 staff of the county Government of Mombasa. Primary data was collected through the use of questionnaires. Analysis was conducted through the use of descriptive statistics. The results indicated that employees were able to accrue diverse network resources/social capital to varying extents. From the data, it was clear that information was the network resource that employees at the County Government of Mombasa accrued most from social capital and networks at 23%. That was closely followed by ideas and knowledge at 20% and 17% respectively. The study also found that social capital influenced both extrinsic and intrinsic factors of career success to a least an average extent or more. The study consequently concluded that; first, diverse network resource (social capital) had been drawn by employees of the County Government of Mombasa to different extents and that had added great value to career success for the County Government staff; secondly, social capital had a positive influence on intrinsic indicator of career success to a least an average extent or more; thirdly, Social capital had a similarly positive influence on intrinsic indicators of career success to a least an average extent or more. On the basis of the findings, the study recommended that social capital be nurtured at the organizational level through drafting organizational policies that are social capital – friendly. This was so that social capital may continue its value addition to both intrinsic and extrinsic aspects of career success so that employees at the County Government of Mombasa may continue realizing career success. In addition, network resources were beneficial to both individual and organisation and therefore value addition was at both levels.

The study aimed at assessing the records management practices at Uganda Wildlife Authority, Head office Kampala. In order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness in the management of records at Uganda Wildlife Authority, the objectives of the study were: To assess the records management practices at Uganda wildlife authority, to Examine the types of records that are managed at Uganda wildlife authority, to determine the challenges faced in the implementation of proper records practices at Uganda wildlife authority, to propose and recommend proper records management practices at Uganda wildlife authority. The study adopted a case study design which helped to assess records management practices at UWA. A study population of 20 respondents provided data, An interview, observation and Document review were the methods used to collect data from the respondents. The research study found out that the records management practices at UWA include: records creation, records classification and indexing, records storage, retrieval of records, mail management, records inventory, records access, records appraisal and retention and records disposition, The study discovered that the types of records managed at UWA included; Administrative records, Legal Records, personnel, records and Financial Records. Further studies indicated that records at UWA are created manually and electronically through scanning, use of an email management system. The study further found out the challenges faced in the implementation of proper records management practices which included inadequate funds for records management, inadequate trained personnel, inadequate space and records management equipment. The study concluded that UWA would streamline records management practices to avert unauthorized access and unnecessary loss of records, misplacement of records misuse and inadequate security measures which is challenging the personnel in charge of records, UWA would depend largely on how its RMP are being implemented therefore proper records management should be emphasized. Lastly the study concluded that more efforts would be put into the use of electronic records practices this would help to overcome the challenge of no records disposal, records appraisal and inadequate space since there is accumulation of both archival and obsolete records. The study recommended that records staff should be provided with adequate trainining to ensure that they are able to undertake full responsibilities of records management, UWA should hire more trained records personnel to ensure efficiency and effectiveness, the study further more recommends that UWA should speed up the process of developing a records management policy so as to be able to manage the records in accordance with the policy and the law. The study recommended that the central registry should carryout digitization of records in order to reduce the volume of paper records and also save time, lastly the study recommends that enough funds should be allocated to the central registry so as to procure equipments for use in records management.

Corporates operate in an increasingly volatile and dynamic environment where control is limited. Most affected by the volatility in local and international markets are manufacturing firms due to high cost of imported raw materials and foreign exchange shocks. I t behooves a corporate to control its internal factors to maximize returns and stay afloat. Capital structure is one of those factors that a corporate has considerable control over and its optimal composition can positively influence performance. The research was an inquiry into the nature and extent of the connection between capital structure and performance Kenyan manufacturing entities listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. Secondary data was gathered from the eight entities listed at the exchange as at 31st December 2021 Data collected was analyzed for descriptive and correlational characteristics using a regression model. Inferences drawn were to the effect that capital structure has a substantial impact on financial performance. Share capital, long-term debt and short-term debt affected performance positively while retained earnings affected performance negatively. The researcher recommends entities to use more leverage to fund operations and increase share capital but should reduce their retained earnings possibly by converting to share capital or increasing dividend payout ratio. The study recommends efficient working capital management to take advantage of short-term debt which displayed the highest beneficial impact