IOSR-JHSS   Volume-31 ~ Issue-9 ~ Sep. 2026

Abstract: Digital technologies in sub-Saharan Africa offer small-scale entrepreneurs’ opportunities to improve business operations, market access, and financial management, but their success depends on individual digital literacy. Digital literacy has transformed small and medium business operations and enhanced entrepreneurial success by enabling improved business efficiency, online marketing, and promoting communication. However, significant gaps persist in understanding how digital literacy specifically influences business performance among women entrepreneurs in informal settlement contexts. The problem is particularly acute in Kenya's urban slums, where women constitute...

Keywords: Digital Communication, Performance, Women Owned Cereals Enterprises, Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums

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Abstract: India has urbanised in a slower pace with the other countries. Urbanisation is a process by which towns and cities are formed and how existing ones become larger as more people begin living and working in central areas in hope that they will enjoy a better standard of living. The United Nations predicts that about 86% of the developed world and 64% of the developing world will be urbanized by 2050. Urbanisation is knitted to modernisation.....

Keywords: Urbanisation, Economy, Modernisation, Population

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Abstract: Background: Psychosocial rehabilitation practices should focus on the functional development of persons with mental illness, enabling them to lead meaningful lives through community participation and to exercise the freedom to determine the direction of their lives. The Functional Staircase Model (FSM) provides a structured trajectory for..

Keywords: Karmapatham; Functional Staircase Model; occupational rehabilitation; psychosocial rehabilitation; functional development; persons with mental illness; community participation

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