Browsing by Author "Samita,Zacharia W."

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    Determinants of Men’s Level of Participation in Family Planning in Bomet County, Kenya
    (IJASS, 2023-11) Bii,Jackline C.; Okemwa,Pacificah F.; Samita,Zacharia W.
    The Government of Kenya (GoK) has adopted strategic interventions to reduce fertility and address unmet Family Planning (FP) needs. This study sought to examine determinants of men’s level of participation in FP inBomet County, Kenya. The study was informed by the Social Dominance Theory (Sidanius&Pratto 1999). This research adopted descriptive survey research design. Multi-stage cluster sampling was utilized to sample 394 participants from the households. Further, twelve key informants who included: seven health practitioners, three religious leaders and two community elders were selected purposively to participate in the study. Data collection were questionnaires, Key informants interview (KIIs) and focus group discussion (FGD) guides. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse quantitative data. Thematic grouping was used to analyse qualitative data. The findings revealed that there was low level of men’s participation in FP in Bomet County. Men did not engage in FP issues since they were regarded as women’s roles. The research further established that men did not attend FP seminars since they were regarded as women’s meetings
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    How Human Capital Enhances the Sustainability of Informal Businesses for Burundian Women Refugee in Nairobi County, Kenya
    (IJRMEC, 2019) Nininahazwe,Bella; Samita,Zacharia W.; Tom Kearney
    This study sought to explore how human capital enhances the sustainability of informal businesses. Human capital is the main process for understanding individual income through education, training skills, vocational training and education. Therefore, human capital does make individuals productive which leads to high income and sustainability of informal businesses among Burundian Women Refugees. According to the findings, 99% BWRs were involved in informal businesses, all BWRs were not attending school (100%) and 63.5% were not involved in any vocational training