scholarly journals Improving Monitoring and Water Point Functionality in Rural Ethiopia

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Anthonj ◽  
Lisa Fleming ◽  
Ryan Cronk ◽  
Samuel Godfrey ◽  
Argaw Ambelu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Knowledge To Action ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Rural Ethiopia ◽  
Community Water ◽  
Water Point ◽  
The Government

This study examines the patterns, trends, and factors associated with functional community water points in rural Ethiopia and identifies potential areas of improvement in terms of practitioner response to functionality and functionality monitoring. It was part of an integrated WaSH and nutrition program implemented by UNICEF Ethiopia and the Government of Ethiopia. Cross-sectional surveys were conducted to collect WaSH-related data in communities and WaSH committees from four community-based nutrition (CBN) program groupings in Ethiopia. In all areas, CBN was implemented, but only in less than half of the areas, a WaSH intervention was implemented. Seventy-three representative kebeles, comprising 30 intervention and 43 control communities, were surveyed. Two structured surveys were conducted. The ‘community survey’ addressed community water points and their functionality and the main areas for improvement needed. The ‘WaSH committee survey’ investigated technical and management aspects of water points and their functionality. Data were analyzed using bivariate regression to identify community characteristics and management practices associated with functionality of water points and explore opportunities to improve water point functionality and monitoring. In the communities, 65% of water points were functional. Eighty percent of communities had a WaSH committee. The WaSH committee members reported that the most used water point types were protected dug wells and boreholes, and that 80% of their water points were functional. India Mark II pumps were more likely to be functional and communities with longer established WaSH committees had higher water point functionality. Communities suggested that the key factors for water point sustainability were improving water quality and water pressure, reducing water collection time, and speeding up repair times. Taking community leaders’ ‘priority lists’ into consideration offers sustainable opportunities for demand-driven, adaptive and targeted design and implementation of rural water supply programs, which, if they include the grassroots level as key informants and actors of change, can succeed. Interventions should integrate the ‘voice’ of the community, the WaSH committees, and other stakeholders and thereby facilitate transdisciplinary approaches at different stages of program management (planning, monitoring, and evaluation). This would help closing the knowledge to action gap and improve policy, programming, practice, and service delivery.

scholarly journals School Management Committee Monitoring Skills and Performance of Government Aided Muslim Founded Primary Schools in Uganda: A Case of Bugisu Muslim District Council

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Habiba Namagembe ◽  
Christopher Samuel Mayanja ◽  
Rashid Kinsambwe
Keyword(s):  
Adult Literacy ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
School Management ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The Government

The performance of Muslim Founded educational institutions has picked a lot of interest globally over the years. The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council established structures at different levels of administration to participate in the monitoring of Muslim-founded Schools. This study premised on Osborne and Gaebler's (1992) constructs of monitoring, aimed at investigating how monitoring skills of the foundation body representatives on the School Management Committees contribute to the performance of Government Aided Muslim Founded Primary Schools in Uganda, taking a case of the BMDC. A descriptive cross-sectional survey design was adopted for this study, with quantitative and qualitative data approaches, while multivariable linear regression was used to obtain the magnitude of the contribution of SMC monitoring skills to the performance of the primary schools under BMDC. The study revealed that monitoring skills have a positive correlation with the performance of the Government Aided Muslim Founded Primary Schools, though, the correlation is moderate. The moderate correlation is caused by insufficient monitoring skills exhibited by the foundation body representatives in areas such as the development of performance indicators, collection of relevant data during monitoring, designing of monitoring tools, and usage of appropriate methods during monitoring. The study, therefore, concluded that such insufficient monitoring skills have hindered them to adequately monitor which has partly affected the performance of the schools. It is as such recommended that BMDC needs to incorporate specific non-financial empowerment capacity-building components into school activities tailored to train the members on the SMC in aspects of monitoring and evaluation, adult literacy, and financial literacy for improved skills, knowledge, and leadership.

scholarly journals ENTREPRENEURIAL MONEY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND COMPETITIVE OUTCOMES OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Fred Gichana Atandi
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Money Management ◽  
Product Portfolio ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Competitive Outcomes ◽  
The Government ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Large Enterprises

This study aimed at determining the effect of entrepreneurial money management practices on competitive outcomes of small and medium enterprises. The specific objectives of the study were to; assess the entrepreneurial money management practices of small and medium enterprises, determine the competitive outcomes of small and medium enterprises and to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial money management practices and competitive outcomes of small and medium enterprises. The study used both descriptive, cross-sectional and correlation research designs. The target population was 324 SMEs trading in Trans Nzoia county out of which 179 were sampled to participate in this study. The sampling method used was stratified and simple random sampling. The research instruments reliability test had a Cronbach alpha value of 0.825 which was above the threshold. The study findings indicated that entrepreneurial money management practices among SMEs was moderately embraced affecting their competitive outcomes. The study results also indicated that competitive outcomes of SMEs were dismal affecting their graduation into large enterprises. It was also found that there existed a positive significant relationship between entrepreneurial money management practices and competitive outcomes of SMEs. The study concluded that for SMEs to realize their competitive outcomes of increasing their respective product portfolio and increased revenue, it’s imperative that they apply entrepreneurial money management practices of prioritized financing, budgeting and adequate working capital to graduate SMEs to large enterprises. The study recommended that SMEs to allocate the realized financial resource prudently to exploit opportunities available to them to remain competitive. The study also recommended that SMEs should prioritize on innovations to differentiate themselves in the overcrowded market by expanding their bundle of product portfolio and also the government to formulate workable SME policies which impart entrepreneurial money management practices to improve SME performance. Keywords: Entrepreneurial, Money Management Practices, Competitive Outcomes, Small  and Medium Enterprises.

scholarly journals Monitoring and Evaluation: Civil Society Organisations’ Competitive Edge in Effective Poverty Alleviation

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (4II) ◽  
pp. 909-924
Author(s):  
Khadija Khan ◽  
Arshad Waheed ◽  
Saadia Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Corporate Management ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Community Organisation ◽  
The Government

The role of Civil Society Organisations as preferred partners in development is strongly emerging across the globe. Among many reasons, one is reasonably good governance. The social sector has shown the acumen to learn and apply corporate management practices and international standards fast enough to start leading the competition. Notwithstanding the fact that a large part of development funding under soft loans and grants is channeled to the government, the CSOs receive a significant share directly and indirectly to implement development projects in communities. It has opened tremendous opportunities for CSOs to experiment and evolve new approaches in project management, community organisation, service delivery, product development, resource mobilisation and financial management. What makes the civil society organisations different from the public sector organisations? Fundamentally two things; these are non-governmental and nonprofit. However, the real difference is in the way civil society organisations are managed. It includes leadership, commitment, professionalism, systems and practices, thrust of work and most of all performance.

Improve Urban River Water Quality by Integrating Water Resource Management into Urban Construction

2014 ◽  
Vol 1077 ◽  
pp. 276-280
Author(s):  
Zhen Zhu Meng ◽  
De Shan Tang ◽  
Yu Hang Wei ◽  
Yi Fan Ding
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
River Management ◽  
Urban River ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Special Pattern ◽  
The Government

Increasing population and urbanization pose more and more threats to urban river. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is possible framework to solve water resource management problems through cross-sectional cooperation, but the vagueness in this concept make its application difficult. This paper focuses on urban river management practices in China and classified the government-guided cross-sectional urban river management projects to a special pattern of IWRM (GIWRM). It is proved to be effective in synthesizing efforts of different government departments, industry and the public and improve the urban river conditions a lot.

scholarly journals Effect of Soil Management Investment on Cassava Production in Oyo State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Isaac. O. Oyewo
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Soil Management ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cassava Production ◽  
The Government ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This study examines the effect of soil management investment on cassava production in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State (Nigeria) using cross-sectional data. Data were collected with the use of a structured questionnaire from eighty eight (88) respondents; four villages were randomly selected for the study. The data collected were analysed using descriptive, mean and multiple regression analyses. The results showed that 84.1% of the farmers were male while 15.9% were female, 45.4% were between the ages of 21 and 30 years, 60.2% of the farmers had 1-10 years of farming experience while 33.0% had tertiary education. Fertilizer and manure applications were the major soil management practices used by the respondents; 44.3% of the farmers invested between N11,000 and N20,000 on soil management during the farming season. The regression analyses revealed that farm size and cassava output were positively significant at 10% and 1% respectively while labour used was negatively signed and significant at 10% to the level of soil management investment. It was however, recommended that farmers should be more educated on the appropriate coping strategies for soil management. Hence, farmers should be encouraged by the Government by providing formal credit facilities with no or little interest rate to improve their soil management system in order to enhance productivity in the study area.

scholarly journals Implementation of adolescent health programs at public schools and religion-based schools in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muthmainnah Muthmainnah ◽  
Ira Nurmala ◽  
Pulung Siswantara ◽  
Riris Diana Rachmayanti
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Adolescent Reproductive Health ◽  
The Government

Background: Adolescents are a vulnerable group who have great curiosity and need access to various adolescent health information. Therefore, the government has implemented a strategy through the implementation of Youth Care Health Services (YCHS). However, some of the stakeholders and youth have limited access to YCHS especially the ones delivered in schools setting. The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of adolescent health programs in schools especially public schools and religion-based schools.Design and methods: This study was an analytic observational quantitative study by using a cross-sectional design.This study was conducted in public schools and religion-based schools in North Surabaya Indonesia. The sample in this study consisted of 100 students through a simple random sampling technique.Results: There was a difference in the level of knowledge of adolescent reproductive health between public schools and religion-based schools (p=0,047). Student’s attitudes (p=0,000) and environmental influences (p=0,000) both related with reproductive health contents. However, there was no difference in adolescent’s attitudes about adolescent reproductive health programs (p=0,190) and adolescent’s exposure to adolescent reproductive health policies (p=0,196).Conclusion: The implementation of adolescent health programs in two types of schools (public and religion-based) were different. Adolescents should have the same rights to obtain knowledge about adolescent health as the prelude for forming a positive attitude. Therefore, stakeholders need to conduct regular monitoring and evaluation on the implementation of standardized adolescent health programs in all types of schools.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Soil Erosion Management Practices in Ejersa Lafo District, West Showa Zone, Oromia, Regional State, Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Amenu Leta ◽  
Terefe Megersa
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Logit Model ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Model Management ◽  
Ownership Type ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Binary Logit Model ◽  
Binary Logit ◽  
The Government

Soil erosion by water is the major Agricultural problem, which results in reduction of agricultural productivity. This study focused on farmer perception of soil erosion and factors influence soil erosion management practices. A cross sectional data was used to assess information about soil erosion perception and factors influence soil erosion management practices. The Ejersa Lafo district was purposively selected from the districts of West Shoa Zones. A total of 142 sample respondents were randomly selected. Interview questionnaire, focus group discussion and survey of field observation were used as data collection tools. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and econometric model. Result from descriptive statistics show that majority of the respondents perceived soil erosion problem and its consequence on farmland. Both biological and physical soil erosion management practices in the area. Binary logit model estimation result shows that education level, landholding size, slopes of the land and land ownership type were mostsignificant to soil erosion management practices in the area. Therefore, taking these factors into account in setting appropriate soil erosion management measures may help policy makers and farmers to couple with erosion problem. The study recommended a need for the government to enforce effective policies to control and prevent soil erosion problem. Keywords: Binary logit model: Management practices: Soil Erosion

scholarly journals Enterprise Risk Management Practices and Survival of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-82
Author(s):  
Ibiwoye Ade ◽  
Mojekwu Joseph ◽  
Dansu Francis
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Enterprise Risk Management ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medium Scale ◽  
Enterprise Risk ◽  
Lagos State ◽  
Business Function ◽  
The Government

AbstractThe survival rate of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) have been found to be low despite all the effort made by the government to sustain their existence. This seems to be linked to the poor management of various risk factors confronting the operators of the sector in Nigeria. In view of this, the study is aimed at determining the influence of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) practices on survival of SMEs in Lagos State. With the application of cross-sectional survey technique, a sample of 400 operators was selected among SMEs across Lagos State. Data which were generated through structured questionnaires were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistical tools. Results indicate that ERM practices significantly influence the survival of SMEs in Lagos State. Based on the findings, it was recommended that SMEs owners should take ERM practices as a valuable business function that enhances survival. Also, government should continue to sensitise SMEs on the benefits of ERM and put in place mandatory ERM guidelines to compel SMEs to practice it.

Data and monitoring in the Indian rural water and sanitation sector – a review of current status and proposed ways forward

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidan A. Cronin ◽  
Nisha Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Sanitation And Hygiene ◽  
Public Data ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Government ◽  
Visualization Of Data ◽  
The Individual

This paper reviews progress on monitoring and evaluation on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programmes in rural India, focusing on the Government programs and the related data and monitoring initiatives. The current state of the WASH sector is presented and discussed in terms of progress across geographical, wealth and social groupings, Though progress has been made, key challenges include data quality, reliability, standardization, availability, reach to all social groups and scaling up with quality services. Possible ways forward are proposed at various administrative levels (National, State, District and down to the individual) and discussed along with good sector practices. Efforts that advocate for increased public data becoming available on-line and then using this to improve the visualization of data are described. Recommendations are identified around increasing evidence-based policy and implementation and help support corrective management action via the linking of monitoring to intervention to results and stronger integration across the social, financial and technical issues.

PERCEIVED EFFECTS OF STREET HAWKING ON THE WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN IN ANYIGBA, DEKINA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KOGI STATE, NIGERIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-07
Author(s):  
Alfred Eboh
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Perceived Effects ◽  
The Government

Background: The hawking of wares by children has been a serious issue confronting the Nigerian society. Children hawk in some of the most horrible conditions conceivable, where they face a serious risk of injury, chronic illness, kidnapping, rape or death. Objective: The focus of this study was to assess the perceived effects of street hawking on the well-being of children in Anyigba, Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State. Methods: The population of this study consists of parents of the street hawkers in Anyigba while cross-sectional survey design was used through the purposive sampling technique to choose the sample size of one hundred and sixty-two (162) respondents. The validated structured questionnaire and In-Depth Interviews (IDIs) served as the instruments for the data collection respectively. The hypotheses were tested using Chi-Square at a predetermined 0.05 level of significance. The quantitative data were analysed with the aid of the SPSS (version 20). Results: The results indicated among others that street hawking had significant social implications and physical consequences on children's moral behaviour as well as health status in the study area. Conclusion: The study, therefore, concluded that the government of Kogi State should carry out an enlightenment campaign through the media and religious institutions on the negative consequences of street hawking are recommended as panacea. Also, the child right act instrument and its implementation should be strengthened in order to curb street hawking in the study area.

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