Kenya

Teresiah Muthoni

Equal Right to Property for Women under International Human Rights Law

An Analysis of the Legal Protection in Kenya

Studien zur Rechtswissenschaft

The study is inspired by the general situation of women with regard to property and particularly land in Kenya. To date, discrimination and inequality with regard to property and land in particular continue to be pervasive whereby the disparity of ownership of land between men and women stands at Seventy Five percent.

Comprising of five chapters, the study analyses the legal protection of the right to property for women by laying open the existing international […]

Veronica Jemanyur Rop

Human Dignity – Participation of Women in Integral Human Development

A Study Among the Kalenjin in the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret, Kenya

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

The title of this book is Human Dignity- Participation of Women in Integral Human Development and the subtitle is A Study Among the Kalenjin in the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret, Kenya.

The dignity of the human person is central to the integral human development (IHD) of any community. The Catholic Social Teaching teaches that human dignity originates from God and is of God, because human beings are made in God’s own image and likeness. As a person […]

Livingstone Sewanyana

Comparative Experiences of NGO Regulatory Frameworks

Eastern and Southern Africa

Verfassungsrecht in Forschung und Praxis

The growth of NGOs in sub-Saharan countries beginning in the 1990s, can be attributed to the ’new wave of democracy’ that led to the rebirth of associational life thus creating new spaces for people to organise. Hitherto many countries amended their constitutions to allow for political reforms. In countries such as Côte d‘Ivoire, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal and Uganda, “one party constitutions were amended to introduce a bill of rights. [...]

Joseph Gimunta Mahiri

Spatial Analysis of Solar Water Desinfection (SODIS) and Household Water Management in Slums

A Case Study of Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya

GEOGRAPHICA – Schriftenreihe Geowissenschaften und Geographie

Water is a basic need. But due to hydrological, climate, social and political reasons is not available everywhere in the same quantity and quality. According to the World Health Organization report, approximately 1.1 Billion people, which represent 17% of the global population lack access to safe and adequate drinking water. Unsafe drinking water is one of the reason for high morbidity and mortality, especially of children and elderly people. Contamination of water very […]

Calvine Kayi

An Analysis of Road Traffic Accidents Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

The Case of Nairobi City, Kenya

Verkehrspolitik in Forschung und Praxis

Road traffic accidents remain a daunting public health problem with an estimated 1.2 million people killed annually worldwide. Some 50 million persons are injured and incapacitated in road crashes around the globe every year. Developing countries, which have been experiencing an ever increasing number of road deaths and injuries, are the hardest hit, accounting for the vast majority. The implication is that road crashes place severe financial and human-resource […]