Search results for "Kenia"

Green procurement in Kenyan hospitals : exploring the awareness and opportunities for Kenyan hospitals to implement green procurement

2015

The significance of having a positive environmental impact has rapidly been growing. More and more industries are beginning to identify and implement the ways in which they can be environmentally friendly. One such way is green procurement. In many developed countries where green public procurement is at the fore-front of procurement activities, many industries have implemented it, including the healthcare industry. In Kenya, a developing country in East Africa, sustainability is a well-known concept, with the country striving to achieve its Millennium Development Goals (of which certain goals on sustainability are included) by 2015. However, green procurement is not as widely developed as …

Restoring culturally appropriate African leadership : a case study of Finnish, Kenyan and Tanzanian perspectives on a leadership and management train…

2009

The usage of social media among young adults living in Nairobi, Kenya : only entertainment or contributions to societal change?

2015

Social media usage has been found to have increased all over the world, also in the so-called developing countries. Although the percentages are still rather low, it can be argued that the use of social media is becoming increasingly important also in African countries. Kenya has been found to be one of the leading countries regarding social media usage in East Africa. Although research on social media has been conducted, for instance, on the use of social media in protest movements and in the areas of users’ motivation, less emphasis has been placed on their developmental aspects. Thus, to gain a deeper understanding of the usage of social media in the so-called developing countries, this …

Bridewealth : an ethnographic study on the narratives and descriptions of the practice of bridewealth establishing its purposes, effects and conseque…

2015

Tämä tutkimus analysoi morsiushinnan tapaa seuraavissa Kenian etnisissä ryhmissä: Kalenjin, Kisii, Kikuju, Luhya, Meru, Maasai ja Kamba. Tämä analyysi perustuu pääasiassa minun etnograafiseen työhön, joka toteutettiin helmi-kesäkuussa 2012. Sen aikana keräsin tietoja käyttämällä avoimia haastatteluja ja myös osallistumalla informanttien rutiineihin, eli heidän jokapäiväiseen elämään. Morsiushinta aihe ilmentyi vasta syväanalyysin aikana kenttätyössä kerätyistä haastattelujen litteroinnista. Haastattelut olivat vuorovaikutuskeskusteluja, joissa minun haastateltavat myös esittivät minulle kysymyksiä . Osallistujien kokonaismäärä oli 29 ja meidän vuoropuhelut olivat heidän erilaisista tavoista…

Political economy and ecology of water control : dynamics of water policy reform and water justice in Taita Hills, South-Eastern Kenya

2015

Kehitysmaissa maalaisyhteisöjen ihmisten vedensaantiin vaikuttavat monet toisiinsa kietoutuneet tekijät: veden kiertokulun ominaisuudet ja veden saatavuus; vesi-infrastruktuurin tekninen, taloudellinen ja hallinnollinen organisoituminen; sekä veden käyttöä ympäröivä sosiaalinen normisto, joka määrittää paitsi virallisia myös epävirallisia veden käyttöön liittyviä oikeuksia ja vastuita. Nämä historian kulussa muovautuneet vedenhallinnan muodot ovat sidoksissa myös valtion poliittiseen taloustilanteeseen ja sen kehitykseen. Keniassa kansallisen köyhyydenvähentämisstrategian määrittämät (uusliberalistiset) vesisektorin uudistukset, jotka käynnistyivät 2002 vesilain astuttua voimaan, muuttivat …

Digital solutions for multilingual learning environments : the case of GraphoGame™ adaptations in Kenya

2015

Occurrence and control of selected antibiotics and antiretroviral drugs in urban hydrological cycles

2018

Using sustainable technology to upgrade sanitation case study: Soweto East, Kibera

2008

Empowering credit - more than just money : the socio-economic impact of micro-finance on women in Nairobi, Kenya

2003

Selecting submerged macrophyte species for replanting in Mediterranean eutrophic wetlands

2020

Abstract The criteria to select submerged plant species for restoration still need further evaluations for a better understanding of their suitability prior to undertaking large plantings which represent a large effort in terms of economical and human resources. In this study, previously to the restoration of a eutrophic area (Tancat de la Pipa) within the Albufera de Valencia Natural Park, the growth of three submerged plants (Ceratophyllum demersum, Myriophyllum spicatum and Stuckenia pectinata), an amphibious species (Ranunculus sceleratus), and three charophytes species (Chara vulgaris, Tolypella glomerata and Nitella hyalina) has been evaluated under controlled laboratory conditions in…