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Assessment of client satisfaction in labor and delivery services at a maternity referral hospital in Ethiopia
(Pan African Medical Journal, www.panafrican-med-journal.com/, 2014)INTRODUCTION: Patients perception about service quality shapes their confidence with regard to use of the available health care facility. This study is aimed to assess the client`s satisfaction in a maternal health care ... -
Freedom of information in the SADC region: implications for development and human rights
(Emerald, 2006)Abstract Purpose – To argue that developing countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region should embrace the concept of freedom of information to enable better human rights and economic ... -
Health worker opionion/perception of health services provided to patients in Selibe Phikwe Ni-Cu mine area, Botswana
(African Forum of Health Sciences http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajhs/article/view/30803/23134, 2005)This study determines the prevalence of types of sicknesses and diseases affecting patients vising health service facilities and the available health services within the Selebi Phikwe Ni-Cu area, Botswana.Through the ... -
Traditional ecological knowledge and community-based natural resource management: lessons from a Botswana wildlife management area
(Elsevier http://www.linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S014362280300033X, 2004)The advent of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Botswana in the late 1980s ushered in a new paradigm in natural resource management. The strategy marked a change from state-controlled to community-controlled ... -
Current impact of mining alkaline rocks on Save River water quality in Zimbabwe
(Elsevier http://www.linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1464343X09000491, 2009)Alkaline rocks (phosphate deposits in particular) of igneous origin are currently being mined in Zimbabwe. Exploitation of these deposits, which are associated with metals and non-metals, provides a potential for changing ... -
Resource use conflicts: the future of the Kalahari ecosystem
(Elsevier http://www.linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140196302910992, 2003)The Kalahari ecosystem is characterized by natural resource conflicts and land-use pressure resulting from intensification of human activities. This paper addresses three issues of concern associated with the Kalahari ecosystem ... -
Integrating policy, disintegrating practice:water resources management in Botswana
(Elsevier, http://www.linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1474706504001834, 2004)Botswana is generally regarded as an African success story. Nearly four decades of unabated economic growth, multi-party democracy, conservative decision-making and low-levels of corruption have made Botswana the darling ... -
The occurences of chest pains and frequent coughing among residents living within the Selibe-Phikwe Ni-Cu mine area, Botswana
(AJOL http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajhs/article/view/30799/23130, 2005)This study aimed at establishing occurrences of chest pains and frequent coughing among different classes of residents within Selibe Phikwe, Botswana where there are on going nickel-copper mining and smelting activities. ... -
A hybrid approach to house construction – a case study in Botswana
(Taylor and Francis, http://www.pdfserve.informaworld.com/940578_73138570, 1997)This paper examines the strategy of employing a hybrid combination of indigenous and modern housing construction technologies. Using a Botswana village as a case study, this paper examines four traditional house types ... -
Characteristics, threats and opportuinities of landfill scavenging: the case of Gaborone, Botswana
(Springer, www.springerlink.com/index/52P6472307264K5M.pdf, 2006)In Gaborone, as in other large cities in the developing world, individuals try to make a living by engaging in novel occupations such as landfill scavenging. This paper reports on a research conducted in the Gaborone ... -
Impact of culture on the application of TQM in the construction industry in Botswana
(MCB University Press, http://www.emerald-library.com, 2000)Total quality management (TQM) as an integrated approach to management that represents a holistic management philosophy, rather than a series of techniques, is embedded with cultural values and assumptions that are ... -
Natural resources accounting: A tool for water resources management in Botswana
(Elsevier, http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/413/description#description, 2007)Natural Resource Accounting (NRA) has become an important environmental/natural resources management tool in recent years. It provides information on stocks of a resource available at a particular point in time and what ... -
Proactive marketing and financial management for Small and Medium Enterprises
(Botswana Institute of Administration and Commerce (BIAC), 2006-05)Although the discovery of diamond has propelled Botswana from one of the poorest countries in 1966 to a middle-income developing nation, the country still faces the problems of economic diversification, employment creation, ... -
Towards small business problem classification: a conceptual model
(Botswana Institute of Administration and Commerce, 2005-11)Today's business environment is turbulent and requires firms, small or large, to be proactive and innovative rather than reactive and receptive if they are to survive and grow in it. Strategic awareness is a mental process ... -
Towards small business development through business incubation programmes: a review
(Botswana Institute of Administration and Commerce (BIAC), 2004-11)The number of new indigenous business start-ups in Botswana has significantly increased during the past two decades. Unfortunately, the majority of them are not successful. Over 70% of new start-ups fail during their first ... -
Relentless Colonialism: the case of the Remote Area Development Programme (RADP) and the Basarwa in Botswana
(Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?mnemonic=MOA, 2004-08)Colonial processes continue to dominate many Indigenous peoples development programmes in countries around the world. This paper examines some of the underlying factors that contribute to continued failure in the implementation ... -
The Okavango; a river supporting its people, environment and economic development
(Elsevier; www.elsevier.com/locate/jhydrol, 2006)The Okavango basin comprises the Cuito and Cubango active catchment areas in Angola, in addition to the Kavango's Okavango non-active catchment in northern Namibia and Botswana. The Okavango River water and its ecosystem ... -
Educational research within postcolonial Africa: a critique of HIV/AIDS research in Botswana
(International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Taylor & Francis [ http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09518398.asp ], 2005-11)This paper uses the postcolonial lens to highlight that mainstream research in postcolonial societies still ignores, marginalizes and suppresses other knowledge systems and ways of knowing. The marginalization of local ... -
A decision tree approach for integrating small business assistance schemes
(Journal of Management Development; Emerald Group Publishing Limited; www.emeraldinsight.com/0262-1711.htm, 2004)There is a general consensus among public policy makers, academics and researchers that entrepreneurship is a vital route to economic advancement for both developed and developing economies. As a result, a host of small ...
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