SU Staff Theses & Dissertations

Oval slides in triangular spaces? Anchoring national human rights institutions in ‘tripartite’ Commonwealth Africa

Ambani, John Osogo (University of Pretoria, 2006)

"Montesquieu, in L'Esprit des Lois, 1748, divided the functions of state into: the legislative power, the executive power, and the power of judging. Indeed, three constitutional organs have invariably dominated state power. ...

Securing Land Rights in Community Forests: Assessment of Article 63(2)(d) of the Constitution

Kariuki, Francis Kamau;

Forests provide environmental, socio-cultural and economic benefits to mankind. They are particularly important to forest dwellers and hunter-gatherers as they derive their livelihoods from there and consider them as their ...

Managing development organizations: a process-based assessment of Australian based Non-governmental development Organizations

Kiraka, Ruth;

This study focused on Australian-based non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) (also referred to as non-governmental aid agencies). The study used a telephone survey of eleven agencies and a mail survey of ...

Combating insider trading in Kenya’s capital markets: challenges and opportunities for reform

Kotonya, Ann; Mwaura, Kiarie

The capital markets are expected to play a pivotal role in the attainment of Kenya’s development blueprint ‘vision 2030.’ It is, therefore, essential that obstacles to the attainment of a fair and efficient market are ...

Essays on gender issues, food security, and technology adoption in East Africa

Ndiritu, Simon

This paper uses household- and plot-level data to test whether there are systematic gender differences in the adoption of joint sustainable intensification practices in Kenya. Using a multivariate probit model, we find ...

Integrating customary and statutory law systems of water governance for sustainable development: the case of the Marakwet of Kenya

Gachenga, Elizabeth

This research investigates the disconnect between customary and statutory law systems in legal frameworks for water governance and whether the integration of these systems would result in positive outcomes for sustainable ...

Outsourcing of logistics : a survey of the practices of medium and large kenyan manufacturing firms

Motari, Felix Mogesa

The tough economic times in the country have endeared firms to reconsider their options in order to acquire and sustain competitive advantage. To ensure this, they have adopted a number of strategies. There has been a move ...

Use of generating functions in HIV/AIDS transmission models

Mbogo, Rachel Waema; OTTIENO, J. A.M. Prof.

This study is concerned with the mathematical modeling for human immunodeficient virus (HIV) transmission epidemics. The mathematical models are specified by stochastic differential equations. The differential equations ...

The growth of Islam among the Mijikenda of the Kenya coast, 1826-1933

Sperling, David

The Mijikenda peoples of the Kenya coast have been in contact with Muslims at least since the 17th century. The first Mijikenda conversions to Islam occurred in the 18th century through the influence of neighbouring Swahili ...

Managers’ perceptions of critical success factors in hotels : the case of Moat House Hotel-Glasgow

Haggai, Collins Omondi; Taylor, Stephen

This research is about the concept of critical success factors (CSFs) as applied in the management of hotels. The concept has its origins in the field of management information systems although has since been applied in ...

A Framework to guide companies on adopting cloud computing technologies

Bitta, Maurice Nyaoro; Marwanga (Dr.), Reuben

Cloud computing has emerged as a popular computing model in the Westem world. It is still not well understood by many companies in the developing world that may benefit from its pay-per-use models, and low hardware and ...

Building sustainable business development services : empirical evidence from Kenya

Otieno, Hellen; ;

This is a PhD thesis that is ongoing. In this paper the authors investigates how sustainability of BDS can be explained; why some BDS providers succeed while others don’t; what the successful BDS providers do differently ...

Integrated access control security system model (IACSS-M)

Mayieka, Jared Maranga; Ateya, Ismail Lukandu

Defining an Access Control security system service for any organization’s application requires the choice of the access control security model and process for the formulation of access decision rules to be used by the ...

New service development: strategy and process in the hospitality sector in Kenya

Oduori, Fredrick Nyongesa; Herbst, Frikkie J.

This paper addresses the issue of new service development (NSD) process in the hospitality sector. While it is recognized that there are significant differences between service sectors, much less has been written about ...

Longevity risk modelling with application to insurer longevity risk based capital stress margins

Njenga, Carolyn

Future mortality rates are uncertain and the risk that estimated mortality rates will be higher than observed rates has negative financial implications for providers of living benefit ts including life annuities and pensions. ...

Influence of farming systems and crop host varieties on pythium root rot epidemics in a highland agroecology of South Western Uganda

Gichuru, Virginia Gathoni; Okori (Dr.), Patrick; Buruchara (Dr.), Robin

The bean crop is one of East African’s principal crops. It is grown primarily by small scale farmers who are mainly women, for home consumption and any excess is sold (Wortmann et al., 1998). The increase in severity and ...