Faculty of Social and Gender Transformative Sciences: Recent submissions
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Can competitiveness of banks be guaranteed through mobile banking in economic crisis business environment? A Zimbabwean case study
(International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), 2021-01)The adoption of mobile banking by banks is intended to grant banks the ability to outperform its rivals and improve performance. However the effectiveness of mobile banking as a competitive strategy is depended upon the ... -
Informality in Zimbabwe’s Urban Areas and the Resilience of Indigenous Solutions to Risk During the Pandemic
(Journal of Human Rights and Social Work (2023) 8:230–244, 2023-09-22)This study examined the role of networks and reciprocated assistance in curtailing the risk arising from an absence of cen- tralised social protection programmes. Given how non-state interventions constitute a key part ... -
Promoting Good Corporate Governance in Local Authorities through Dimensions of Internal Audit. A Case Study of Harare, Bulawayo, and Mutare City Councils
(International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), 2024-06-27)The aim of this study was to create an accounting-auditing framework that supports good corporate governance in local authorities in Zimbabwe. The study was driven by the low corporate governance index in all Zimbabwean ... -
Preventive Strategies on Teenage Pregnancy in the Rural Communities of Zimbabwe: A Case of Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe
(Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing, 2015-08-25)The purpose of this study was to come up with preventive strategies on teenage pregnancy in rural communities of Zimbabwe, using Hurungwe District, a rural community located in Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe as a ... -
The effect of supply chain resilient strategies on operational performance of humanitarian organisations in Zimbabwe during the Coronavirus period
(Tailor and Francis Online, 2023-08-13)The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic disrupted global supply chains, creating acute shortages of goods and services to support the operations of many organisations. In Zimbabwe, this situation affected the operations ... -
An Analysis of Challenges Faced by Part-time Postgraduate Block Release Students at Institutions of Higher Learning
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020-07-07)The purpose of this study was to analyse the challenges faced by postgraduate block release students at Chinhoyi University of Technology in Zimbabwe. The challenges were measured against the following indicators (i) ... -
Achieving High Employee Performance through Transformational Leadership in the Banking Sector
(International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), 2021-01)Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore whether the adoption of transformational leadership leads to higher employee performance in the banking sector. The study was motivated by high staff turnover rates in ... -
The effect of supply chain resilient strategies on operational performance of humanitarian organisations in Zimbabwe during the Coronavirus period
(Tailor and Francis Online, 2023-08-13)The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic disrupted global supply chains, creating acute shortages of goods and services to support the operations of many organisations. In Zimbabwe, this situation affected the operations ... -
Strengthening the Capacity for Developing Employability and Entrepreneurial Skills for Intellectually Disabled Learners through Curriculum Reform in Zimbabwe; Evidence from the Skills Development Programme Developed by Harare Polytechnic in Partnership with Special Olympics Zimbabwe.
(International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Sciences (IJRISS), 2024-01-23)The study provided a framework of developing employ ability and entrepreneurial skills through curriculum reform for intellectual disability[ID] learners in Zimbabwe. The research was a collaboration between two partners, ... -
Barriers to and Consequences of Reporting Rape in a Rural Community of Zimbabwe
(Developing Country Studies, 2015-05-14)The purpose of this study was to investigate the barriers to and consequences of reporting rape in Hurungwe District, a rural community located in Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe. The researchers used the qualitative ... -
General side effects and challenges associated with anti-epilepsy medication: A review of related literature
(African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2020-06-30)Background: This study is coming against the background of people with epilepsy who are abandoning anti-epilepsy medication in developing countries, such as Zimbabwe. Aim: The aim of this article was therefore to review ... -
Women Empowerment and Gender Related Programmes Implementation in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe
(nternational Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Studies, 2015-02-12)In this study, the researchers carried out an analysis on women empowerment and implementation of gender related programs in Hurungwe District, a rural community located in Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe. A sample ... -
Parental perceptions towards reintegration of pregnant girls and teenage mothers into the education system in Zimbabwe
(Cogent Social Sciences, 2023-03-06)This study examines parents’ perceptions of reentry, and socio-cultural and economic factors responsible for their perceptions in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo. This follows an amendment to the Education Act prohibiting the ... -
Vulnerability, Coping, Adaptation, and Accumulation among Women of Irisvale Resettlement Area in Zimbabwe’s Umzingwane District
(Australasian Review of African Studies, 2023-12-02)This study of women’s vulnerability, coping, adaptation, and accumulation in an agrarian setting of the Umzingwane district of Matabeleland South province explores issues that surround Irisvale women as they act and react ... -
Implications of income diversification in Irisvale farming community, uMzingwane District, Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe
(Journal of Social Development in Africa (JSDA), 2023-01-26)In recent years, peasants in Irisvale have been moving away from agriculture towards other livelihood strategies, chiefly, gold mining. In this study, we used a qualitative approach through a case study design to investigate ... -
Factors responsible for substance use among youths in urban areas and social work-related interventions
(Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-05-15)This study investigates factors responsible for substance use among youths in urban Zimbabwe and the roles that social workers can play to solve this growing problem. We adopted a qualitative methodology through a descriptive ... -
Invisible existence’: Perspectives of forced migrants’ living within Zimbabwe
(Oxford University Press, 2019-05-13)Involuntary human mobility within and outside national borders continue to raise connotations of these migrants being dispossessed of more than their physical shelter. In 2005, the Zimbabwean government demolished hundreds ... -
Delineating caveats for (quality) education during displacement: Critiquing the impact of forced migration on access to education
(Oxford University Press, 2019-06-03)This qualitative article aims at unraveling the impact of displacement on the access to (quality) education. The article is premised on the inherent role played by education to equip displaced children with functional ... -
Experiences of female higher education academics in Zimbabwe: A decolonial feminist perspective
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-06-25)The low representation of women in leadership positions continues to characterise higher education institutions (HEIs) in Africa. Most senior positions, from Programme Coordinators, to Departmental Chairpersons, Deans ... -
Zimbabwe Market Study: Manicaland Province Report
(Research Technical Assistance Center, 2020-01)This report presents the findings of a market study conducted in July 2019 in Manicaland Province using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Study findings will be used to inform the strategic direction of the ...