Kenya established the Road Maintenance Levy Fund in 1993 to finance road maintenance. The Kenya Roads Board is at the centre of the Fund’s administration and accomplishes this by working in collaboration with various implementing agencies. However, through professional experience, we have...

The objective of this study was to determine the influence of lecturers' computing competence and preparedness for electronic learning (eLearning), focusing on word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, statistical analysis, internet browsing and e-mailing software packages. We applied a...

The Government has decentralized about 16% of the Road Maintenance Levy Fund to constituencies to maintain feeder roads. Decentralization of the fund creates opportunity for communities to participate in road maintenance, thus, improve transparency, accountability, ownership and sustainability....

The Government of Kenya entered in a concessional agreement with Rift Valley Railways (RVR) in 2006, under the build-operate-transfer financing arrangement, to boost economic growth. However, 10 years later, RVR's performance failed to meet performance targets, due to financing and technical...

The Government of Kenya entered in a concessional agreement with Rift Valley Railways (RVR) in 2006, under the build-operate-transfer financing arrangement, to boost economic growth. However, 10 years later, RVR's performance failed to meet performance targets, due to financing and technical...

The past two decades have seen exponential growth in the number of small and medium enterprises in Sub-Sahara Africa; however, about two-thirds of such enterprises often fail to take off, resulting to negative economic impacts at the micro and macro-levels. However, documentation of the subject...

Good corporate governance is indispensable for the survival and performance of corporate entities. The purpose of the Capital Markets Authority's (CMA) Guidelines on good corporate governance was to improve governance practices in the corporate sector, as well as attract and retain investors for...

Between one-half and two-thirds of strategic alliances formed by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) fail to realize their purpose due to unmitigated risk factors. Most studies on strategic alliances and associated risks focus on developed economies. Using the Kenyan case, this study sheds light...

The Local Authorities Transfer Fund (LATF) is an intergovernmental transfer system, supplementing the financing of service delivery within the framework of fisc0al decentralization. LATF's objectives are to improve service delivery, enhance financial management and accountability as well as...