Browsing by Author "Muia, Daniel"

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    Contribution of Social Capital to Household Graduation from the Hunger Safety Net Programme in Marsabit County, Kenya
    (Journal of humanities and social sciences, 2025-04) Rufo, Boniface Munene; Muia, Daniel; Rono, Henry; Schutte, De Wet
    This study aimed to determine the extent to which social capital contributes to household graduation from the Hunger Safety Net Programme in Marsabit County, Kenya. The study employed a mixed-method survey design. Data collection was done from October 2023 to December 2023 using a questionnaire, key informant interview guide, and focus group discussion schedule. A total of 334 primary respondents were selected using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. The findings reveal that 23.4 per cent of the respondents were members of a community-based social group or network. Those who belonged to a social group were few, but the benefits they received were of great value. Furthermore, the majority of respondents (88.9%) indicated that community members were not fully involved in selecting households for graduation. However, 40.5 per cent of respondents expressed trust in the few community members who participated in their graduation. Using an ordered logistic regression model, community associations/networks (b=-0.841, p=.002); community participation (b=-2.902, p=.003); community trust (b=1.77, p=.010); and community leadership (b=-1.18, p=.015) were found to have a statistically (p<0.05) significant effect on household graduation. The study recommends the national and county governments develop and support community-based livelihood initiatives such as savings and loan groups, skills training programs, and pastoralist cooperatives. Beneficiariesof the Hunger Safety Net Programme should leverage social capital and traditional coping mechanisms to support their livelihoods rather than relying on external support. They should also participate in community activities to enhance their networking skills to realise socio-economic development.
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    Determinants of Book Piracy in Nairobi County
    (AJPO, 2016) Igesha, Peter M.; Muia, Daniel; Maina, Lucy W.
    Purpose: This study aimed to find the determinants of book piracy in Nairobi County. Methodology: The study adopted a descriptive research design. This study was conducted in Nairobi County. The target population of the study consisted of local book publishing companies, book law enforcing agencies/book trade organizations and book users. The research consisted of twelve publishing companies, fourteen law enforcing organizations in which Senior Investigating Officers, Investigating Officers and Prosecutors were involved in the research, and one hundred and twenty four text book users as sets of units in my data analysis. A simple random sampling approach was used in the study to come up with the sample. This is because the researcher wanted to get information from large groups of people. The study used primary data which was collected using structured and unstructured questionnaires from the field. The questionnaires were administered through drop and pick method. The questionnaires format were standardized with a balanced mixture of both open ended and close ended questions and were guided where necessary. Results: The research findings showed that demand side, supply side and legal/legislation side have positive and significant effects on book piracy in Nairobi County. The study concluded that parental purchase books and course books are in large demand in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions of education but their high prices make them unaffordable for poor students. This situation provides room for book piracy. Book pirates are free to fulfill market needs. Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended that the law enforcement authorities like police needs to be imparted with proper training in copyright fields and copyright industry associations/copyright societies should launch an extensive campaign through print and electronic media highlighting the adversities associated with the piracy.
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    Effect of the Hunger Safety Net Programme on Household Food Insecurity: Lessons from Marsabit County, Kenya
    (Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology, 2025-04) Rufo, Boniface Munene; Rono, Henry; Muia, Daniel; Schutte, De Wet
    This study assessed the effects of the Hunger Safety Net Programme in reducing household food insecurity in Marsabit, County, Kenya. Worldwide, social safety programmes have largely been implemented in the drylands targeting vulnerable households. However, poverty and food insecurity remain high, especially in arid and semi-arid lands. The study employed a survey research design. Data was collected between October 2023 and December 2023 targeting 334 householdswho had graduated from the Hunger Safety Net Programme in Marsabit County, Kenya. The findings indicate that 10.8% of the respondents were food secure, 3.3% were mildly food insecure, 2.7% were moderately food insecure and 83.2% were severely food insecure. Simple regression analysis indicates that cash transfer amount, adequacy of cash transfer, and duration of support had a statistically significant (p<0.05) effect on food insecurity. Multiple linear regression further reveals that households whose main livelihood was business, b=-0.171, p=0.007, casual labour, b=-0.119, p=0.036, and remittances, b=-0.140, p=0.039were significantly associated with a lower likelihood of food insecurity. The study concludes that despite a slight improvement in households on their food security through Hunger Safety Net Programme support, the majority were still food insecure. The study suggests an increment of the cash transfer amount, a longer duration of beneficiaries in the programme, and the introduction of conditional seed capital to the beneficiary to start income-generating activities to enhance food insecurity.
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    Patterns of Women's Property Ownership and Inheritance Rights in Kisii County, Kenya.
    (Kenyatta University, 2015) Mogute, Mary Moraa; Maina, Lucy W.; Kimani, Elishiba; Muia, Daniel
    Women's rights have been the global agenda for the last few decades. Despite this, women are still disadvantaged. This study endevoured to investigate the patterns of women's property rights among the Kisii people of Nyanza region, Kenya. The objectives of this study were to identify the various types of property, establish who had rights to access, control and inherit property, investigate the determinants of women's property ownership and inheritance rights and generate suitable strategies that. could be adopted to enhance women's property rights. This study was informed by the conflict and the social role theory. The research design adopted for this study was descriptive survey which triangulated quantitative and qualitative techniques. Interviews schedules were utilized to obtain primary data from 408 household heads, in-depth interview guides were used to collect data from thirty key informants while focus group discussion guides were utilized in facilitating collection of qualitative data from groups. Four focus group discussions were conducted in the two sampled divisions. Obtained data was processed and analyzed with the help of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). The finding of the study revealed that land, houses and livestock were common properties owned and men were found to dominate ownership of these properties. While land was majorly inherited as reported by 94.6% of the respondents, livestock was purchased and houses build. Male and female genders accessed family land and houses as demonstrated by chi-square outputs of2.75 and a p-value of 0.25 and10.55 and a p-value of 0.007 respectively. However, access to cattle was influenced by gender as demonstrated by a chi-square of 10.55 and p-value of 0.005. The study revealed a relationship between control of land (chi-square 17.59 and a p-value of 0.001), livestock (a chi-square of 12.83 and a p-value of 0.002) and houses (a chi-square of 19.36 and a p-value of 0.001) with gender. There was a relationship between property ownership and gender as shown by a chi-square output of 90.909 and a p-value of 0.001, 81.124 and a p-value of 0.001 and 81.227 and p-value of 0.002 for residential houses, agricultural land and cattle respectively. Inheritance of land was also found to have a relationship with gender as depicted by a chi-square of 12.402 and a p-value of 0.002.Factor analysis generated ten items and only four items with eigenvalues of 2:.1.0and factor loadings of 2:.4 were acceptable while the other six were discarded because theywere insignificant in influencing women's property ownership and inheritance rights. These factors were; cultural beliefs and practices with a variance of 14.593%, socio-economic factors with a variance of 13.398%, patriarchy with a variance of 11.865% and legal awareness and land scarcity with a variance of 10.502%. These factors explained a total variance of 50.358%. Implying they were significant in influencing women's property ownership and inheritance. Analyzed data also revealed that there was need to enhance women's rights to property as reported by 76.1% of the respondents. Policy recommendations were: to sensitize and empower the community on statutory and legal provisions related to women's property rights, to appropriately implement existing laws that promote women's rights to property, to use of gender sensitive school curriculum to help change the orientation of people on gender equality, government to establish programs to empower women economically, socially and politically. Research recommendations were; to conduct research with a wider scope beyond Kisii County and assess the impact of constitutional provisions in promoting women's property rights among the Kisii people.
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    The nature of livelihood insecurity among agropastoral households in South Kerio Basin, Elgeyo Marakwet County
    (Office of Centre for Social Science Research, 2024-06-13) Gitonga, Juster; Rono, Henry; Muia, Daniel
    This study assessed the nature of livelihood insecurity in the South Kerio Basin, Elgeyo Marakwet County, Kenya, a semi-arid region. The study, a cross-sectional survey design with a mixed methods approach, was guided by the theory of livelihood insecurity. The unit of analysis included households in three locations: Keu, Kibargoi, and Arror. From a population of 8,199 registered households in the three locations, a sample of 383 households was determined using Yamane (1967) formula and distributed proportionately. An interview guide was used to collect quantitative data, while qualitative data was collected using key informant interviews and a focused group discussion guide. Every kind of ethical consideration was taken into consideration. The statistical package SPSS V22 was used to generate quantitative descriptive and inferential statistics, and the Excel spreadsheet was used to analyze the qualitative data. The study established that households experienced varied livelihood insecurities in terms of environmental variability, deficiencies in livestock production, land use and productivity and income and household endowments. These drove households to adapt to new livelihood strategies, including diversification into horticultural production. The study concluded that despite livelihood insecurities, horticultural production offered households new livelihood pathways to meet their needs. The study recommends partnerships and integration between the National and County governments and the local community to address livelihood insecurities and develop policies for strengthening households' local capacity and coping mechanisms.