It is a heavy price that Kenyans and its land-locked neighbours have had to pay. But behind the facade, under-currents with far-reaching consequences are hard at play. Here is the untold story camouflaged in the red-herring of "tribal skirmishes". In the beginning, it all appeared as...
In 1993 the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) panel proposed some guidelines for use when designing CV surveys in order to enhance the quality of data and results (Gunatilake et al., 2007). Evidence show that when these guidelines are followed, CV yields reliable ...
ICA’s board of directors identified the Kamtonga Primary School Potable Water Project for its first project based on information that had been gathered by directors Miriam Kamau and Evan Caplan as well as reports from engineers and hydrologists. With a population of about 3,000, th...
Ironically, Gregory’s reliance on a formal, “secure” job has made his situation particularly precarious in COVID-19 era. He has no supplementary livelihood and little savings, having built it up and regularly depleted it on investments—like dowry and a home upcountry—that cannot...
Baseline surveys, which took approximately 40 min to complete, concluded with a question asking respondents if they would agree to be contacted again. Questions about familiarity with a consumer finance mechanism, pay-as-you-go (PAYG) LPG, were asked to a subset of participants at baseline. ...
However, Vilalta-Perdomo and Hingley (2018) provide an alternative view looking at food-micro producers more as a community rather than links in a chain using information from six in-depth interviews, an online survey, and telephone surveys. They highlight that collaboration does not necessarily ...
Poor data quality in Kenya makes sexual violence difficult to study. Researchers measure crime patterns using self-report surveys to gather information about incidents that, in many cases, happened long ago. Such data may not be accurate for a host of possible reasons, including forgetting, or re...
The effectiveness of such measures are challenged by lack of resources for robust responses, delays in obtaining and delivering an effective response (median reported times between recognition of outbreak and deployment of vaccines in Uganda of 25 and 52 days in two separate surveys [49,52]) and...