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Participation as a medium for economic empowerment among microfinance scheme beneficiaries in Kano, Nigeria
Published 2014“…The aim of microfinance is the provision of micro-financial services to economically-active-poor and low income households to enable them engage in income generating activities. …”
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Community participation in watershed management programs
Published 2009“…Results: Findings of this study showed that satisfaction of prior programs had highest relationship with level of participation (r = 0.518, p = 0.000), and followed by attitude toward WMP (r = 0.489, p = 0.000) knowledge of WMP (r = 0.435, p = 0.000), total monthly income (r = 0.177, p = 0.012) and alternative monthly income (r = 0.158, p = 0.025). …”
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Factors influencing people's participation in watershed management programs in Iran
Published 2009“…Correlation analysis showed that six factors: 1) satisfaction of prior programs, 2) attitude toward WMP, 3) knowledge of WMP, 4) alternative income, 5) total income, and 6) expectations of WMP have positive and significant relationship with level of participation in WMP. …”
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Factors influencing local people's participation in watershed management programs in Iran
Published 2009“…Correlation analysis indicated that six factors: 1) satisfaction of prior programs, 2) attitude toward WMP, 3) knowledge of WMP, 4) alternative monthly income, 5) total monthly income and 6) Met expectations of WMP have positive and significant relationship with level of people’s participation in WMP. …”
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Relationship between background characteristics and residential satisfaction of young households in unplanned neighbourhoods in Kano, Nigeria
Published 2014“…These relationships indicate that those who are older, higher income and bigger household size, with more room are more satisfied. …”
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The impingement factors of quality of life among community who reside near to the rivers
Published 2014“…Analyses performed have confirmed that factors of level of education and areas have significant difference with quality of life while factor of income was detected to have significant relationship with quality of life. …”
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The quality of life of Muar river community and socio-economic factors that impinge it
Published 2010“…It is suggested that income generating activities such as boat renting, hotel, home-stay and local product shops be established along Muar River. …”
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Relationship to the river: the case of the Muar River community
Published 2011“…It has been used as the sources of income, protein and as well as the major mode of transportation for the community and traders. …”
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Measuring rural women empowerment through participation in women Self Help Groups in Nigeria – an empirical analysis
Published 2013“…The study revealed that even though women approach is newly introduced in the study area (Niger State), the majority of women who constituted as respondents of this study have benefited considerably as most of them have been earning certain income thereby supplementing their family income. …”
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Validation of the Malaysian coping strategy instrument to measure household food insecurity in Kelantan, Malaysia
Published 2011“…Results: Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics (household size, number of children, number of children attending school, household income, and per capita income) were significantly associated with household food-security status in rural and urban areas. …”
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Household food insecurity among urban welfare recipient households in Hulu Langat, Selangor
Published 2012“…The risk factors of food insecurity included the presence of children below 7 years old (F=3.690; p≤0.05), school-going children (F=2.599; p≤ 0.5), disabled members in the households (F=3.690; p<0.028), income reliance on financial assistance and per capita income (F=4.349; p≤0.05). …”
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Literacy and women empowerment for sustainable development in Nigeria
Published 2013“…Available records showed that women constituted more than fifty percent of Nigerian population and for any sustainable development in Nigeria to be achieved this greater percentage of the population need literacy and education for income generation skills and vocational training. …”
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Individual differences in Sabahan highland farmers' adaptation towards climate change
Published 2018“…The analysis performed has concluded that the differences in education achievement have a significant influence on Sabahan highland farmers’ adaptation towards climate change, while factors such as age, income and the number of household members have a significant relationship with their adaptation towards climate change. …”
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Leveraging microenterprise products at the global market : a strategy to ensure sustainable poverty alleviation
Published 2013“…It enables microenterprenuers to get access to finance, income generation, build assets, as well ascreating opportunities for poor households to plan for future. …”
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Relationship to the river: the case of the rural communities residing beside the Tembeling, Pahang and Muar Rivers
Published 2013“…Four themes emerged from the analysis, namely sources of income, mode of transportation, less appreciation among the younger generation for the river, and the need for river development. …”
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Climate change adaptation ability among Sabahan highland farmers
Published 2017“…Sabahan highland farmers have a high cognitive awareness towards the changes in their ecosystem, high practices by diversifying their crops, extending their harvest land and also learn other skills related to agriculture and skills impertinent to agriculture to convalesce their household income. However, their structure support was weak as they do not have many livelihood options other than agriculture.…”
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Factors affecting small scale fishermen's adaptation toward the impacts of climate change: reflections from Malaysian fishers
Published 2019“…In conclusion, it was found that age, income, and fishing experience recorded a significant relationship with climate change adaptation practices, whereas their household size did not yield any relationship with the adaptation practices. …”
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Factors affecting small-scale fishermen's adaptation toward the impacts of climate change: reflections from Malaysian fishers
Published 2019“…In conclusion, it was found that age, income, and fishing experience recorded a significant relationship with climate change adaptation practices, whereas their household size did not yield any relationship with the adaptation practices. …”
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Rivers development: the view of the youth
Published 2014“…Findings have confirmed that a majority of rural youth still needs the rivers for their recreational activities while a small portion of them still rely on the river for their additional income. The rural youth have demonstrated a high level of agreement on river development as it offers them benefits with regard to locals’ development, environmental awareness, social bonding and transportation. …”
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Factors impinging human capital of rural youth in Malaysia
Published 2016“…Analysis performed confirmed that rural youth possessed a high level of human capital while specific analysis confirmed that there was a significant difference on human capital with the factor of occupation while significant relationship was detected between human capital and the factors of age and income. Several discussions have been highlighted and expectantly it can offer some ideas to the concerned parties in constructing strategies to further enhance the development of human capital among rural youth in Malaysia.…”
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