Organizations acquire, use, and store their intellectual capital through Knowledge Management. Information that has been organized and acquired with the goal of efficiently and effectively influencing employees' abilities and experience to preserve consistency and enhance organizational performance is known as Knowledge Management. The primary cause of poor financial performance is a lack of management awareness among most of the present workforce in the majority of firms. Organizational information gaps have been replaced by data availability. The three main pressures on management from a global perspective are knowledge acquisition, dissemination, and application. Therefore, the main goal of this research was to evaluate how Knowledge Management affected the financial success of Kenya's DT-SACCOs. In this regard, the goal of the study was to determine how knowledge dissemination, application, and acquisition impacted the financial performance of DT-SACCOs in Kenya. The Resource Based Theory (RBV), Innovation Diffusions Theory, and Learning Organization Theory served as its guiding Theories. Data were gathered for the study using questionnaires, which followed a descriptive research methodology. The target group in Kenya consisted of 70 DT-SACCOS. The Krejcie & Morgan table was used to select the sample size, which resulted in a sample size of 60 respondents for the questionnaire. Frequencies and percentages were used to assess the quantitative data. Tables of frequency distribution were used to present the results. By determining the association between Knowledge Management and financial performance, regression and correlation analysis was utilized to assess the study hypotheses. The data showed an R2 of 0.638, indicating that 63.8% of performance changes could be attributed to the independent variables that were chosen. In addition, the study discovered that knowledge acquisition (=0.190, p=0.000), firm size (=0.436, p=0.000), and leverage (=-0.158, p=0.007) all significantly and negatively correlated with financial performance among Kenyan DT-SACCOs. Distribution of knowledge and liquidity did not significantly differ

To establish a vibrant real estate sector and facilitate the construction of affordable, modern, and efficient housing units to all Kenyans, the government should establish measures and policies that impact investors positively. Primary, this is achievable through partnership with local and foreign investors to reduce the housing cost. The initial medium-term idea (MTI, 2009-2012) of vision 2030 in Kenya was to grant 250,000 housing items per year to all income levels by the year 2012. However, the goal was not achieved since only 50,000 out of 250,000 housing units were constructed. In Kenya, housing shortages will be more profound as a result of increased population growth rates and urbanization which is not accompanied by improvements in the housing sector. Affordable housing is one of Kenya’s Big 4 agendas aimed at transforming the economy of the country into a middle-income one. Therefore, the focus of this study is to suggest policies to Kenyan government and investors to solve problems of absence of sufficient housing units through evaluation of Infrastructural Development (ID), Human Capital Development (HCD), and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in relation to Housing in Kenya. The research will use quarterly non-stationary data for the period 2009-2020 to approximate a simple regression of housing growth rates and the chosen macroeconomic factors. This study will employ both causal and analytical design using auxiliary data from the CBK, KNBS, KIPPRA, KRA, and other Government records. Test of the unit root will be undertaken to determine stationarity of the data used using critical Dickey-Fuller where (P<0.05), Cointegration test is also performed to identify any existence of a relationship between the predictor variables and the predicted variable, in the long run, using Engle-Granger test(P<0.05). Multicollinearity is performed using variance inflation factor (VIF<10) to identify any correlation between the predictor variables. A test of Heteroscedasticity is done to establish whether the residual term is equally distributed using the Breusch-Pagan-Godfrey test and the Durbin Watson test for serial correlation coefficient (p<2.5). Using documentary research, the time series data will be collected and analyzed using STATA. The findings are expected to inform the government on the initiatives, measure, and policy options to adopt in order to reduce the housing deficit in Kenya.

Organizations have utilized strategic responses towards quality improvements, productivity increment, cut costs, and reorganize and establish culture. These are acts aimed at dealing with the firm's environment's difficulties. Therefore, they are building and employing various strategic responses that are dependent on the environment, capacity, skills, and resources. Despite these benefits, environmental volatility has hampered performance. It has drawn attention to the firms’ already delicate performance, which is heavily influenced by micro and macro environmental factors. Things have not been different for Reliance hospital. Hence, this study sought to understand what are the strategic approaches adopted by Reliance Hospital to improve performance especially during COVID-19? And how does the performance of the Reliance Hospital relate to its strategic responses. The study adopted a case study design. Data was collected using an interview guide the CEO, senior doctors, senior nurses, finance manager, and human resource manager. The findings of the study indicated that there are different internal and external environmental factor that influence the performance of the hospital. The respondent recorded political, economic and Socio-cultural factors. They also listed other factors like leadership, skills, knowledge and capabilities, human resource development, socio-demographic factors and patient involvement and cooperation. The respondents listed ways they tried to deal with turbulent environments changes. One was conducting a competitor analysis, having products for both high income and middle-income earners, attracting donor funding and adopting a customer relationship management strategy. Additionally, they are investing in increased technological innovations, improving its physical infrastructures, strengthening its financial management systems, and training employees to achieve quality patient care and satisfaction. The study concluded that the hospital is greatly affected to an extent by both external and internal factors. It recommended that the hospital's management need to use their brand names for cultivation of customer loyalty, use advertising and real time strategic responses that facilitate the hospitals preparedness in handling the impending issues and train their employees to reduce staff turnover. The hospital should also follow all government policies and regulations to the letter in order to avoid lawsuits which may harm the hospitals’ reputation. Lastly, the study concludes that has given the hospital an advantage in the industry.

Introduction: Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) provide healthcare services such as basic curative, promoting and preventive healthcare services at the community level. While CHVs role is outlined at policy level, their engagement at the county level is still sub-optimal influencing their motivation. Other than remuneration, CHVs can be motivated by other intrinsic factors such as recognition. Unlike other cancers, cervical cancer is treatable when identified early by screening and early diagnosis. However, the uptake of screening services in Kenya is still low among eligible women. Therefore, to encourage uptake of screening by eligible women, CHVs need to be utilized to create awareness at the community level. Objective: Study aimed at exploring the intrinsic motivation factors that influence CHVs in promoting cervical cancer screening. Methodology: This was a qualitative study conducted in Isiolo Sub-County. Sixteen CHV leads were purposively selected to participate in individual interviews conducted between January and February 2021. The interviews were audio-taped, transcribed and analyzed using thematic content analysis. Results: Fourteen out of 16 participants were competent having demonstrated knowledge on cervical cancer and screening. However, 13 out of 16 did not know the type of screening services offered. All the participants had a good relationship with their supervisors. The average time spent each day doing CHV work was 3.6 hours. Participants rated their job satisfaction in relation to promoting cervical cancer screening very lowly at 2.8 on a scale of 10 due to lack of capacity building and facilitation to work diligently at the community level. All the CHVs (N=16) attributed their motivation to service to community and to God. Eleven out of 16 attributed their satisfaction to gaining and utilizing new knowledge. Conclusion: The CHVs were not satisfied with their role in creating awareness to promote cervical cancer screening. Factors such as average level of knowledge on cervical cancer and inconsistent support supervision were the main factors that contributed to dissatisfaction of CHVs and influenced their performance on creating awareness for cervical cancer screening Recommendation: Subject specific training is needed to improve CHVs knowledge on cervical cancer screening and consistent close supervision provided to ensure optimal performance by CHVs.

The overall objective for this study was to assess EWASCO M&E system. The eight components of focus in this study were capacity building and resources, keeping of documents, collection of information, quality structures, verification of information, Analysis and usage of data, evaluation, leadership and alignment. The study sought to operationalize FHI 360 tool for assessment of the M&E system and 20 people were used with purposive sampling. Interviews were done and documents reviewed. It employed descriptive statistics during analysis of the collected data. The EWASCO system scored an average of 76% and was rated “fairly good”. Quality systems of data were the highest score with 91 percent, Data use and evaluation scored 66 percent which was the least score. The identified advantages were: procedures that were well outlined, partnerships that were strong, data collection tools that were standardized. Shortcomings were: budget that was minimal, staff that was not adequate, inappropriate skilled workforce, improper M&E procedures documentation, no data analysis and application, finally, nothing shows that the results were applied to improve on the program impact. The study recommendations included: increased budget allocation to at least 5% of the budget, employ staff to the M&E section, regular system assessments to ensure its functionality, the organization should have a proper documentation for the system to improve its efficiency and use, the organization should provide limited access to promote security of data and future access, Consistent follow-up of definitions on data transfer to summary formats and reports, tools filled with completeness and correctness, with good feedback systems. indicators measurable to ensure quality of data from collection to analysis.

The study investigated the effect of foreign direct investment on agricultural output in Somalia. The study utilized time-series secondary data sourced from the World Bank Indicators and the United Nations Data website, SESRIC, the Central Banks of Somalia, and the IMF between 1970 and 2020. The study adopted “Cobb-Douglas production function” to estimate the effect of FDI on agricultural output in Somalia. Before estimation, the augmented Dickey-Fuller test was used to make sure that the data was stationary. The study employed the ARDL model to evaluate the co-integration approach for estimating long-run and short-run associations and dynamic interaction between the variables. FMOLS and DOLS were also used in the research to figure out how sensitive and stable the long-run characteristics were. The result of the Johansen cointegration analysis showed the presence of three cointegrating equations in the long-run dynamics. The correlation findings demonstrate that the variables possessed a correlation coefficient that was higher than the threshold of 0.8. The major regression findings of this study show that all explanatory variables' outcomes from all applied models (ARDL, DOLS, and FMOLS) have a strong positive relationship with agriculture output in Somalia. All the study's three models' coefficients are positive, and all their t-statistics are statistically significant and greater than the 5% critical value. In the short term, Somalia's agricultural output is positively affected by all the estimated explanatory variables in this study. The study suggests that, to enhance the sustainability of the country's economic growth, the government should create sufficient investment incentives to stimulate foreign investment in the agriculture sector's development process.

By bringing previously unreached groups into the realm of formal financial activity, Islamic microfinance is well positioned to boost the total market share of Islamic banking and finance. Due to the various political, religious, economic, and legal settings in which Islamic microfinance products operate, these products each have a unique goal as well as a unique set of goods and services to provide their customers. To further the cause of social justice within Islam, each incorporates a set of guiding principles (whose ways of interpretation and application may be found throughout a spectrum). Risk sharing, mutual help, and asset- or equity-backed rather than debt-backed transactions are all encouraged, as well as the ban of riba and the reduction or elimination of undue uncertainty and gambling. Further, contracts based on mutual understanding are deemed crucial by these guidelines. This study's goal is to analyze the effect that Islamic microfinance products have on the growth of Islamic SMEs in Nairobi County. The study was organized as a descriptive survey from start to finish. The statements of Islamic financial institutions were mined for secondary data including specific information on Islamic financing throughout the course of a five-year period, covering the years 2017-2022 specifically. The SPSS computer software analysis tool was used in order to do data analysis, which resulted in the generation of both inferential and descriptive statistics. The data was then presented using averages, variances, percentages, and tables. We utilized the F test to establish overall model significance, and the T tests to check whether or not each coefficient was statistically significant. To do so, a comparative examination of financial performance shifts across the study period was carried out. Study results showed a positive correlation between using Islamic microfinance products and the growth of Islamic SMEs (ISMEs). The performance of Islamic microfinance products was analyzed and explored using a regression model. The study's results suggest that those who use microfinance programs grounded on Islamic principles have higher rates of economic success. The independent variables that were investigated accounted for a significant 57.4% of the variance in financial performance, while other factors that were not taken into account for the research accounted for the remaining 42.6% of the variance. The research suggests that Kenyan Islamic banking should be developed further, which would be beneficial to the economy of Kenya. In addition, the report recommends a legal framework be established to enhance the industry's regulations. This indicates that both the Banking Act and the Central Bank Act need to be changed in order to combine Islamic banking ideas.

Land has long been shrouded in conflicts and misunderstanding in Kenya, this has led to differed opinions on the subject. The purpose of this research project is to examine the gender gaps in systems of land ownership in relation to food security in Kenya. The problem is the fact that while women are hugely depended on to produce food the very commodity that is crucial in food production has evaded their grasp, Land. The study used these theories to analyze data; the Marxism feminism, Socialism feminism and the Sarah Longwe framework. The study methodology is a desktop review covering various literature and research work done by other scholars, other sources are from reports done by Kenya national bureau of statistics. In conclusion the study observes that more studies be carried out not just in Kenya but also in other countries to truly find ways to mitigate the gender gaps in Land ownership in order to ensure better systems and improve food security. The study establishes that despite the progression in our laws especially our constitution 2010 and the Marriage act of 2012 we have failed to implement the same. The study also finds that the various traditions within the Kenyan communities have oppressed women seeing them as unworthy to inherit land since women are married off and they can go and inherit land in their husband’s home. The study also established that poverty was both a determinant and contributor of women's access to land and eventually their tenure security. Lastly the study established that the political temperatures has broadly remain patriarchal with lawmakers mainly being men and not being very keen to make pro-women laws. The study recommends more training for women, incorporation of women rights laws in education materials in both primary and secondary level, reaching out to community elders as custodians of customs to enlighten and encourage them to abandon patriarchal practices and for women to be economically empowered to enable stand up for their rights more. URI http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/153622 Publisher University of Nairobi Subject Food Security In Kenya Rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States Usage Rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Collections Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Law, Business Mgt (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM) [24362] The following license files are associated with this item: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United StatesExcept where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States Useful Links

To overcome savings gap, developing nations have continued to acquire massive foreign loans. Managing and repaying massive inventories of external loans has presented hurdles and problems in developing countries, Kenya inclusive. When employed in productive sectors, borrowed funds from other economies can help a country stimulate its economic growth. However, mismanagement or excessive consumption can lead to growth retardation. The study sought to examine effects of external debt on economic growth in Kenya. This was achieved by analyzing annual time series secondary data from 1970 to 2018. The motivation behind the study is that Kenya has been heavily relying on foreign borrowings to fund its annual fiscal deficits and infrastructural development. Financing fiscal deficit through foreign borrowing has raised Kenya’s debt load, increasing worries about its sustainability. The study adopted ARDL bound cointegration test in which long-run link amongst variables was established. Consequently, ARDL-ECM model was used to carry out empirical estimation and its outcome yielded a valid long-run relationship between the variables utilized. The findings revealed that external debt stock has positive effects while external debt services have negative effects on Kenyan economic growth. In addition, both variables significantly affect economic growth. The study concludes that external debt has positive contribution to economic growth in Kenya. Furthermore, the study proposes that the government guarantee that loans are routed towards productive sectors, diversify the economy to permit greater income generation, stimulate capital formation, and acquire debts in essential capital areas when needed.