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Prison-reformation has been a controversial and politically charged issue in Kenya. In the past it has elicited such legendary and emotional responses as "What reforms? Prisons are not supposed to be five star hotels!" Recently, however, there has been a greater consensus between the public sector and the civic society in Kenya - than has ever in the past - of the need to revisit the human rights of inmates in various Kenyan prisons. Since 2003 a number of ground breaking reforms have been introduced in Kenyan prisons and more reforms seem to be on the way. Jacqueline Korir in this book takes a serious and despassionate look into a single variable: the quality of catering in Kenyan prisons. Her findings were both shocking and challenging. The food was lacking in both nutritive value as well aesthetic appeal. The site of food samples was only reminiscent of a grotesque meaning of the famous Council in Church History - The Diet of Worms! This book, grounded, in empirical data analysis by hard statistics and backed by rare photographs from inside Kenyan prisons serves as an eye-opener to both the prison-reformists as well as students and teachers of African sociology and institutional catering all over the world.

Intra-state distribution of monetary and non-monetary benefits from resource extraction among multiple entities is a subject of considerable interest in natural resource law. Drawing mainly but not exclusively from international human rights and environmental law, this study explores the nature, core content and models of benefit sharing in the extractive sector in Kenya. The study establishes that central to the push for benefit sharing is the desire to realise justice – commutative, distributive or compensatory – for resource-host communities and regions. Kenya is an ideal case study related to benefit sharing because of its recent adoption of multi-level governance known as devolution. From this lense of multi-level governance, the thesis assesses whether such a system aids or impedes the effective distribution of resource benefits to host regions and communities, a factor critical to mitigating resource conflict. The thesis examines Kenya's legal regime governing benefit sharing from the colonial period to the present. This historical review demonstrates the significant impact that Kenya's Constitution adopted in 2010 has produced in entrenching benefit sharing in the norms and institutions of the state. It attributes the enhanced legal and policy recognition of benefit sharing not merely to the text of the Constitution but to the role played by semi-autonomous territorial units, known as counties, in shaping emerging norms and standards on benefit-sharing through a wide range of strategies including legislation, litigation and information dissemination. Where countiestake a proactive role in shaping the manner in which resource costs and benefits are distributed in law, responsive legislative outcomes can be realised. Conversely, where counties fail to seize their institutional position to aid resource impacted communities' engagement with policy opportunity structures, national institutions and resource operators are likely to default to historically exclusionary and paternalistic approaches to benefit ...

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Bachelor of Laws Degree, Strathmore University Law School ; Legal transplantation has become a worldwide phenomenon and with its continued use in various jurisdictions for many years, it has continued to be preferred by many legal drafters both in Kenya and beyond. The aim of this dissertation is to find out whether the process of legal transplantation is an effective process in legal drafting in Kenya based on an analysis on the Company's Act 2015 and the Insolvency Act 2015. The research done on this paper is from online content and written work. The content is largely foreign as there is very little information on the subject here in Kenya as much as the process takes place quite evidently here. This research found that The Company's Act and the Insolvency Act are two legislations that have been heavily borrowed from the United Kingdom and have faced numerous challenges and therefore need numerous amendments. They were borrowed without a complete understanding and have not been quite effective to address the problems they were meant to solve .The recommendations given include the drafting of laws with an aim to only solve real problems without borrowing foreign concepts wholly. It also recommends that the process of legal transplantation ought to be used only in moderation.

Explicitly defining orthodoxies about women empowerment in Africa reveal that, unlike men, women lack more economic opportunities, which contributes to their declining local economy and that of their respective nations. Although several studies have explored this claim further, most of their analytic portions have substantially surfaced the plausible causal link between other indicators and these nations' economic decline. This emphasis gives impetus to claims of a deliberate attempt by researchers not to posit causal relationships between women's inadequate economic opportunities and their respective nations' dwindling economies. In this regard, there are sketch speculations that any debate about women's role in a given African nation's economic growth is likely to be divided into arguments around their work efficiency. Within such debates, narratives around the responsiveness of such nations' governance systems to women, and their inherent societal norms, can be chiefly dialectical. By calling attention to issues limiting women's contributions to economies, this article demonstrates how increased investment in women's economic empowerment brings forth a positive impact on the economy. It borrows from Galtung's structural form of violence and Barnett and Hyde's expansionist theory in deriving an eclectic mix of expositions to support this position. . Based on these expositions, it concludes that discriminatory social norms and practices, and inadequate legislation, are the main impediments to women's economic empowerment. It proposes, in light of this conclusion, the need to delegitimize norms and ideas that perpetuate women's disempowerment and suggests that it can be achieved, through advocacy and policy interventions, which are context-specific.

The paper reports empirical findings drawn from a study undertaken to understand the dimensions of strategic leadership deployed among flower farms and the benefits that the flower farms have derived from deployment of strategic leadership. The context was selected due to its significance in contributing to the national economy and the level of turbulence experienced by the farms that requires a leadership style entrenching strategic thinking. 43 flower farms were sampled and primary data obtained using a structured questionnaire from CEOs, Deputy CEOs and heads of functional areas. Two dimensions of strategic leadership have been deployed to a low extent while two have been implemented to a moderate extent. The deployed dimensions of strategic leadership have significantly contributed to the flower farms performance by enhancing their capacity to attain growth at the rate of 15-20%. The study concluded that strategic leadership is relevant for deployment by the flower farms and raised implications for its deployment among organizations facing complex and turbulent environments. The paper called on future research to consider expanding the scope of the context of the investigation and conceptualization of the dimensions of strategic leadership based on other relevant theoretical frameworks anchoring strategic leadership.

Purpose- The study investigated the indirect effect of innovative behavior on the relationship between e-banking technology characteristics and micro and small enterprises (MSE) performance through e-banking technology adoption in Kenya. Design/methodology: The study employed an explanatory research design and a multistage sampling technique to collect cross-sectional data using a self-administered questionnaire. The sample size of 455 MSEs was drawn from a target population of 5915 in Vihiga County, Kenya. Findings-The study findings showed a complementary mediation of e-banking technology adoption on the relationship between e-banking technology characteristics and MSE performance. Additionally, innovative behavior moderated the association between e-banking technology adoption and MSE performance but did not moderate the relationship between e-banking technology characteristics and e-banking technology adoption. Further, innovative behavior moderates the indirect relationship between e-banking technology characteristics and MSE performance via e-banking technology adoption. This effect was much more substantial, with a higher level of innovative behavior. Practical Implications- These findings underscored the need for policy reviews for government, county, and private sector on e-banking technology adoption and MSE performance in Kenya. Originality/value- The study's findings bring vital knowledge concerning the indirect effect of e-banking technology adoption and innovative behavior on the study variables.

AbstractThis study is motivated by the need to understand the determinants of performance in women‐owned enterprises. We examine the relationship between strategic capabilities and firm performance with demographic characteristics as moderators in women‐owned enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya. Results show that strategic capabilities have a significant effect on the overall performance. Further, IT capabilities and technological capabilities have a positive and significant relationship with performance. Only age has a negative and significant moderating effect. We recommend enhancement of technological capabilities among women entrepreneurs so that they can better direct their capabilities toward firm performance. Copyright © 2016 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.