Bahiya Aidarus

YOUTH ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION. Young people between the ages of 15 and 25 constitute a fifth of the world’s population. They can be a creative force, a dynamic source of innovations, and they have undoubtedly, throughout history, participated, contributed, and even catalyzed important changes in economic opportunities. However, youth also face poverty,limited employment prospects and opportunities. Job creation is a key development objective for most economies, Kenya including youth.However, expansion of employment opportunities has not kept pace with the rapidly expanding working age population.The government has to evaluate the sectors with high potential of creating employment opportunities for the youths in Kenya. Activities with high potential to create jobs include livestock, vegetables (horticulture), rice production, textile and footwear production, and hotels and restaurants. Further, the results imply that the sectors of the Kenyan economy are interdependent and d...

CLIMATE CHANGE ON ECOSYSTEMS. Climate is an important environmental influence on ecosystems.  Changing climate affects ecosystems in a variety of ways. For instance, warming may force species to migrate to higher latitudes or higher elevations where temperatures are more conducive to their survival.  Similarly, as sea level rises, saltwater intrusion into a freshwater system may force some key species to relocate or die, thus removing predators or prey that are critical in the existing food chain.     Photo courtsey of google ecosystems. Climate change not only affects ecosystems and species directly, it also interacts with other human stressors such as development.  Although some stressors cause only minor impacts when acting alone, their cumulative impact may lead to dramatic ecological changes.For instance, climate change may exacerbate the stress that land development places on fragile coastal areas.  Additionally, recently logged forested a...

ECONOMIC POWER OF KENYA PORTS AUTHORITY. Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), is a statutory body under the Ministry of Transport, infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, with the responsibility to maintain, operate, improve and regulate the Port of Mombasa, all scheduled seaports situated along Kenya’s coastline. Ports generally offers a value proposition to its region since it confers economic Impacts. (Picture courtesy of google) There are numerous expectations in the public sector, which often provides substantial capital investments (through the port authority or general funds), to see concrete and measurable economic impacts and benefits resulting from these investments. Economic impacts concern the wide range of changes brought by infrastructure investment projects.However, many of these impacts can only be observed after the investments have been made.  Forecasting exercise is hazardous and commonly leads to inaccurate assessments.  Port forecast models are ...

DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP AMONG CAMPUS STUDENTS. After a failed relationship, some people are very soft-hearted and need to consult a psychologist. Also, some get mental disorders, that they need to take therapy sessions to continue their lives regularly. As a result, some face sleeping problems too. Every person in life face issues related to their relationships. But, many times, it affects them very deeply.  Nowadays we can judge people easily due to social media and other technologies. But, after these advancements also, some people cannot be recognized.  Many relationships are unhealthy and tend to affect the people involves in it.   In this article, we will cover some points showing the effects of unhealthy and failed relationships on students. Students are very tender in their age and, such relationships affect them very harshly. Depression After a failed relationship, some people are very soft-hearted and need to consult a psychologist. Als...

 COMPETENCE BASED CURRICULUM (CBC)  The Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) under the 2-6-3-3 system of education in Kenya was unveiled in 2017 to replace the 8-4-4 system of education which has served Kenya for 32 years. The introduction of 2-6-3-3 has received a lot of attention and provides an opportunity for us to reflect on the end of an Era in Kenya's Education where ranking and cut throat completion has been at the center of the sector. The anxiety that parents experienced in the past as well as the candidates was devastating and affected the country to the extent that parents engaged in cheating such as taking their children to academes but registering them for Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams in rural public schools in order to secure national school places. There were cases where the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) reported that over 10,000 candidates 'missed' exams when the truth of the matter was that those were candidates who made double reg...