Developing Sustainable Flood Risk Management Framework for Kebbi State, Nigeria

Training Workshop for Traditional Birth Attendants at Aliero, Kebbi State, Nigeria; A Community Development Service at Aliero, Kebbi State, Nigeria

A significant proportion of births in Nigeria still occur in the homes of traditional birth attendants (TBA) . Recent studies have revealed many complicated cases of obstructed labour from TBAs. TBAs are popular in developing countries. They lack formal education or medical training and some of their clients end up with obstetric complications, which may lead to severe maternal and perinatal mo...

Mapping the flood-prone areas for developing a flood risk management system in the northeast of Iran

Outbreak of Cerebrospinal Meningitis in Kebbi State, Nigeria

BACKGROUND Cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM), is a major public health problem still affecting tropical countries particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Group A and occasionally group C account for large scale epidemics in many countries in the African meningitis belt. The study aimed to describe the pattern of cerebrospinal meningitis outbreak in Kebbi state in 2015. METHOD Information on cases an...

a combinational framework for developing sustainable vision

this paper presents a new framework for developing a sustainable and inspirational vision through combination of futuring and storytelling concepts. this combination helped us to overcome the previous problems and weaknesses on the way of visioning process and vision communication. to achieve key elements of corporate vision and narration, 237 questionnaires containing five open ended questions...

The use of flood risk map for flood management (urban area of Nekarood)

Flood is considered as a major threat among natural disasters in the world. This case becomes more important and has a higher risk in urban areas due to the existence of important uses. Therefore, to reduce damages resulted from flood, this phenomenon must be managed and planned using structural and non-structural approaches. Considering the development in Iran has been carried out in high risk...