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This paper examined the strategies for preventing and responding to sexual violence against children in Rombo district, Tanzania. Sexual violence against children (SVAC) remains a major concern in many countries across the globe and in developing countries such as Tanzania. The SVAC encompasses a range of offenses such as completed non-consensual sex acts such as rape, attempted non-consensual sex acts, abusive sexual contacts such as unwanted sexual touching and non-contact sexual abuse. Studies have been conducted to assess strategies to prevent and respond to sexual violence against children. However, studies that focus on examining the strategies and how they are used by Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms (CBCPMs) are still limited in Tanzania. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the strategies used by CB-CPMs to prevent and respond to sexual violence against children in Rombo District, Tanzania. A mixed methods study was conducted involving 158 members of CBCPMs. A total of 108 responded to a questionnaire, 4 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) were conducted involving 40 members of CBCPMs and 10 Key Informant Interviews(KIIs) were conducted to complement data collected through questionnaire. Descriptive data analysis was conducted with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) version 23. Qualitative data was analyzed using thematic content analysis. The study concludes that awareness raising, provision of advice, communication, identification of children, referral of abused children, mapping and monitoring of children had effects on combating SVAC. The study revealed that CBCPMs have improved situation of SVAC and child protection environment in Rombo district. Therefore, study recommends that, the government should support CBCPMs through funding, monitoring and capacity building in order to strengthen their skills to combat SVAC. The study also recommends that more awareness raising How to cite this paper:

The study examined the influence of firm characteristics on share price movement (SPM) at Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya. The features selected for the study were firm size, product variety, firm age, Earnings per Share (EPS), ownership and corporate social responsibility (CSR). From the population of sixty-seven listed firms at the bourse as of December 2018, a purposive sample of 47 firms was extracted from the Main Investment Market Segment (MIMS). Secondary data for the period 2000-2018 was collected from the listed company's annual financial statements, company websites, the Capital Markets Authority and NSE Handbooks. The relationship among firm size (using sales revenue as proxy), product variety, age of the firm, EPS, ownership and CSR on SPM was determined from the unbalanced panel data comprising 777 observations. Econometric statistical analysis tools were used on ordinary least squares model that possessed explanatory power 54.7% for the SPM. Firm size (ρ=0.0384), ownership (ρ=0.034) and product variety (ρ=0.043) were significantly related to share price movements, whereas firm age, EPS and CSR impact were insignificant. The association of the combined predictors for each separate sector to SPM was also examined and found to be significant in the sectors of construction allied (ρ=0.024), telecommunications and technology (ρ=0.0323), investments (ρ=0.037) and commercial services (ρ=0.041). However, agriculture, automobiles, banking, energy, manufacturing and insurance sectors were statistically insignificant with ρ≥ 0.05.

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The aim of this study was to examine the factors affecting employee productivity of government employees at Shinyanga Regional Secretariat in Tanzania. Government employees were the main point of the study and adopted a survey research design, an ordered logistic regression model and STATA for data analysis was applied. Sample size was 191 respondents, primary data was collected using descriptive questionnaires and triangulation. Results from the ordered logistic regression model (odds) show that, the odds of Trainings are not significant, trainings which have been asked considered all the trainings including seminars and workshops which were found not to relate to the carrier of position one holds in the office and thus it came out insignificant. Basing on the rule for significance level from the regression analysis, the coefficient of the effect of leadership style showed that, one-unit change in the effect of leadership style results in 0.087 units increase in labor productivity, meaning that, there is a significant relation (at p value of 0.000) between the effect of leadership style in Tanzania with respect to labor productivity. Therefore, we recommend that, Leadership style that is supportive and encourages is necessary in building working teams and promotes labour productivity at Shinyanga Regional Secretariat and when employees are not involved in designing, organization and planning the training, the evaluation of the training outcomes becomes difficulty. Furthermore, Leaders are to be trained on good leadership so as to apply a leadership style that works to the subordinates and there should be frequent evaluations checking if the leaders are participatory to the subordinates.