Assessment of Climate Change Related Disasters in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands. A Case of Baringo County, Kenya

Women face multi-faceted challenges in participating in management position due to different factors. The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that affect participation of women in leadership positions in Bahir dar city administration. To address this objective, the study adopted mixed research methods with descriptive survey design. A total of 190 women public civil servants were taken as a sample. Moreover, a key informant interview with women in leadership positions was conducted. In addition, FGD were also a very important data-gathering instrument for this study. The findings revealed that there are three major factors for women's low participation in leadership positions, i.e. institutional, socio-cultural and individual factors. Those factors have decisive contributions for low participation of women in leadership positions. With proper implementation of women's policies in the organization, equal treatment during assignment leadership positions, and creating awareness in society that woman are capable for leadership positions.

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Women's in Leadership Position “Issues and Challenges”

Research Anthology on Challenges for Women in Leadership Roles ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-8592-4.ch001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Getachew Alebachew Mekonnen

Keyword(s):

Survey Design ◽

Data Gathering ◽

Women In Leadership ◽

Equal Treatment ◽

Leadership Positions ◽

Participation Of Women ◽

Key Informant ◽

Major Factors ◽

Key Informant Interview ◽

Descriptive Survey

Women face multi-faceted challenges in participating in management position due to different factors. The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that affect participation of women in leadership positions in Bahir dar city administration. To address this objective, the study adopted mixed research methods with descriptive survey design. A total of 190 women public civil servants were taken as a sample. Moreover, a key informant interview with women in leadership positions was conducted. In addition, FGD were also a very important data-gathering instrument for this study. The findings revealed that there are three major factors for women's low participation in leadership positions, i.e. institutional, socio-cultural and individual factors. Those factors have decisive contributions for low participation of women in leadership positions. With proper implementation of women's policies in the organization, equal treatment during assignment leadership positions, and creating awareness in society that woman are capable for leadership positions.

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ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND PATTERNS OF FARMERS’/PASTORALISTS’ CONFLICTS IN ZAMFARA STATE, NIGERIA

FUDMA Journal of Sciences ◽

10.33003/fjs-2020-0404-436 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 56-66

Author(s):

Olasunkanmi Gabriel Jeje ◽

B. A. Sawa ◽

Y. A. Arigbede

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Implementation Framework ◽

Scarce Resources ◽

Purposeful Sampling ◽

Climate Change Information ◽

Study Results ◽

Ranch Management ◽

Key Informant Interview ◽

The Relationship

Struggle over land and scarce resources have resulted in perennial and growing violent conflicts amongst arable crop farmers and cattle herdsmen in various parts of Nigeria. This study analyses the relationship between climate change and patterns of herders-crop farmers’ conflict in Zamfara state, Nigeria. Data for this study were acquired via semi structured questionnaire and Key Informant Interview. Purposeful sampling method was used to select six communities, while 260 farmers and 67 pastoralists were chosen as sample size for the survey based on Krejcie and Morgan’s formula. Descriptive statistics such as percentages, arithmetic mean and Likert rating scale were adopted to analyze the data for the study. Results from the findings indicated that farmers and herders in Zamfara state were within active years of economic and productive age (24 to 44 years). Nearly,75% of both farmers and pastoralists in the study communities professed there is high variability in rainfall pattern and increase in temperature. Three-quarter of the respondents confirmed that the nature of the conflicts was assault involving the use of arms; whereas two-fifth of the respondents affirmed that the conflict occurs during harvest and the planting seasons. The study concluded that climate change is the bane of incessant resource use conflicts in the study area. Thus a clearly formulated government policies and implementation framework that would boost climate change information forecasting and dissemination, adaptive capacity and ranch management will salvage the conflictual relationship subsisting between farmers and herders in the study area

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Climate change, water resources and sustainable development in the arid and semi-arid lands of Central Asia in the past 30 years

Journal of Arid Land ◽

10.1007/s40333-018-0073-3 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 1-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Yang Yu ◽

Yuanyue Pi ◽

Xiang Yu ◽

Zhijie Ta ◽

Lingxiao Sun ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Water Resources ◽

Central Asia ◽

Arid Lands ◽

The Past ◽

Semi Arid

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Corporate Citizenship: An Institutional Tool To Gauge Stakeholders Participation in Holy Name University, Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines

IAMURE International Journal of Business and Management ◽

10.7718/iamure.ijbm.v4i1.374 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ernesto O. Golosino

Keyword(s):

Corporate Citizenship ◽

Survey Method ◽

Questionnaire Data ◽

Think Tank ◽

Data Gaps ◽

Key Informant ◽

High Regard ◽

Almost All ◽

Key Informant Interview ◽

Descriptive Survey

The advent of modernization and cutthroat competition necessitates an organization to dismantle if not redefine its directions and key positions in the market. This compelling reality prompted many corporations to change its vision, mission and goals and even to the point of system’s overhaul. Whatever modes adopted in order to get an edge in the market calls for participative and collegial decisions. However, strategic directions and corporate plans if conceptualized by the few “corporate think tank” only remain as beautiful as a piece of poetry. The absence of sense of ownership will convert these powerful ideas into garbage. Hence, cascading them to the entire system becomes a must. It is from this contention that this study was conceptualized. The primary aim of this study was to assess HNU’s practices in terms of corporate citizenship. The study used descriptive survey method. Personal interviews were effected in order to avoid bias and subjective interpretation of the questionnaire. Data gaps were addressed thru key informant interview. The findings showed that almost all parameters of corporate citizenship were given high regard, , but the prevalence of minute yet significant unfavorable data calls for an alarm. Keywords - corporate citizenship, institutional tool, stakeholder’s participation

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Common Dressing Styles and Attributes Associated with Students’ Dressing Styles in Kenyan Public Universities

East African Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

10.37284/eajis.3.1.264 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Otieno Gladys Akinyi ◽

Susan Abong’o ◽

Keren Mburugu

Keyword(s):

Survey Design ◽

Informed Choice ◽

Study Data ◽

Higher Learning ◽

Group Discussions ◽

Multiple Sampling ◽

Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽

Sampling Procedures ◽

The University ◽

Descriptive Survey

The study sought to examine students’ dressing styles and common attributes assigned to them. A descriptive survey design was used in this study. The study areas were the University of Nairobi, Egerton University, Moi University, Technical University of Mombasa, Maseno and Karatina Universities. Multiple sampling procedures were used to select 566 students who participated in the study. Data were collected using questionnaires, focus group discussions and observation checklists. Results show that majority of respondents bought their own clothes with funds provided by the parents or guardians. The most outstanding feature that informed choice of dress was aesthetics, followed by comfort and design. Vests, bare chest tops and shorts were considered modest while high-slitted skirts, miniskirts, unbuttoned shirts, boob-tops, tumbo-cuts, skin-tight dresses and trousers and Bermuda shorts were found to be immodest. Recommendations have been made to develop guidelines on the choice of dress for students in institutions of higher learning to enhance personal grooming.

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The Demographic Implications of Crop Farmers-Pastoralists Conflict in Benue North-West, Nigeria

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ◽

10.47191/ijmra/v4-i7-17 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 04 (07) ◽

Author(s):

Godwin Kwanga ◽

Keyword(s):

Survey Design ◽

Arable Land ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Small Arms ◽

North West ◽

Key Informant ◽

Short And Long Term ◽

Key Informant Interview

Conflicts between crop farmers and pastoralists have become a common feature of economic livelihood in West Africa. The study assessed the demographic implications of crop farmers-pastoralists conflict in Benue North-West, Nigeria. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design and a sample of 120 respondents was purposively selected from the three LGAs mostly affected by the pastoralists’ attacks. Data were collected using structured questionnaires, key informant interview and field observations and analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentages and mean). The study in its course found that availability of evergreen arable land (3,27), competition over available evergreen arable lands (3.0), damage to crops (3.12) and the proliferation and availability of cheap small arms and light weapons (2.52) are the major causes of conflict in the area. The study also revealed that the conflict has both short and long term demographic implication on the affected communities. The study recommended sustainable measures towards addressing conflict in the affected communities.

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Zangbeto: The Traditional Way of Policing and Securing the Community among the Ogu (Egun) People in Badagry, Nigeria

Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology ◽

10.21301/eap.v8i1.9 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 199

Author(s):

Rashidi Akanji Okunola ◽

Matthias Olufemi Dada Ojo

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Survey Design ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Content Analysis Method ◽

Anthropological Study ◽

Key Informant ◽

Convenience Sampling ◽

Sampling Procedures

This paper is an ethnological and anthropological study of Zangbeto among the Ogu (Egun) people of Badagry, in Nigeria. The study utilized survey design approach with emphasis on qualitative method: interview, focus group discussion and key informant investigation. Purposive and convenience sampling procedures under non –probability sampling were used in selecting the study area and respondents who participated in the study (n=40). The data gathered from the field of study were analyzed, using content analysis method. The findings in the study revealed that Zangbeto still remains an effective social machinery of policing and securing the lives and properties in the Badagry community. It also played a prominent role in making peace among the feuding parties in the community and still remains an avenue of social entertainment and cultural display. The study called for the legal backing of Zangbeto as a traditional way of policing and security the lives and properties in this community and the continuous researches of African societies to uncover ways through which African societies can help themselves where westernization has failed them.

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