As countries approach their scale-up targets for the voluntary medical male circumcision program for HIV prevention, they are strategizing and planning for the sustainability phase to follow. Global guidance recommends circumcising adolescent (below 14 years) and/or early infant boys (aged 0-60 days), and countries need to consider several factors before prioritizing a cohort for their sustaina...

The international integration of markets and the decentralization of authority within nation states are two defining trends of the contemporary era. A popular speculation is that globalization has caused a downward shift in the locus of governance by reducing the economic costs of smallness and allowing localities and regions with distinctive preferences to pursue their own political and econom...

The aim of this study was to assess the effect financial statement audit on revenue collection growth in Rwanda. Under five specific objectives; *to analyse whether desk influences tax RRA; investigate field RRA ; evaluate compliance tests affect establish moderating government policies and identify collected economic RRA. This adopted a descriptive research design, quantitative approaches were...

In this article, I examine the shifting language of debates over law and justice in Zimbabwe run-up to, following, November 2017 coup. argue that rhetoric African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) drew upon to secure its authority negotiate legitimacy through law, shifted from a focus ‘sovereignty’ ‘protection’, one battling ‘corruption’ ‘criminality’. At same time, there remained consis...

Over the last decade, developing countries have been promoting public-private partnerships (PPPs) as an alternative approach to infrastructure and services. This is done by utilising efficiency innovation of private sector enabling access private-sector finance through (PPP). Importantly, PPPs ensure more value for money than traditional financing options highway transportation revenue sources....

This paper studies revenue-sharing contracts in distribution chains in the presence of win-win conditions. Revenue-sharing contracts are a mechanism to coordinate the firms in a distribution chain. Under these contracts the retailer shares its revenue with the supplier in exchange for a lower wholesale price. The win-win conditions are natural conditions requiring that the profit of any firm ma...

Chinhoyi in Zimbabwe is used as a case study to explore the potential of secondary cities addressing urban challenges. This significant considering that while African are rapidly urbanizing, narratives urbanism focus more on large and metros. Adopting qualitative research approach, data for this were collected from interviews with 15 key informants review policies development plans. The reveals...

The increased usage of computer based decision support systems is perceived as transferring decision authority to software programs. This has led to the notion that decision making power has been somewhat transferred from human decision makers and over centralized on the machine in the decision loop. The question is, has this enhanced the effectiveness of the decision support system in selected...