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Michael Olanya West
ID:
Head Teachers’ Views of their Instructional Leadership Practices; A Case Study of Four Primary School Head Teachers in Kitgum Municipal Council, Uganda
REFNo: SS568ES

a) To investigate how primary school head teachers in Kitgum Municipal Council perceive their instructional leadership practices
b) To find out head teachers’ understanding about instructional leadership practices
c) To find out factors which facilitate or hinder head teachers’ practice of instructional leadership
 Uganda 2020-10-26 2023-10-26 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
JOAN KEMPANGO
ID:
“Assessment of Factors Associated with Acquisition of Clinical Competences Among Undergraduate Nursing Students in Ugandan Universities”
REFNo: HS639ES

1) To determine the involvement of clinical mentors in the undergraduate acquisition of clinical skills;
2) To investigate clinical mentors preparedness in facilitating undergraduate student’s clinical skills
3) To assess student perception of the learning environment in a clinical set-up among undergraduate nursing students in Uganda;
4) To identify the available learning resources for the acquisition of clinical skills among undergraduate nursing students in Uganda;
5) To establish the influence of institutional factors on competence acquisition by the undergraduate nurses in Uganda.
6) To establish the effect of student factors on clinical competence acquisition by the undergraduate nurses in Uganda.

 Uganda 2020-10-22 2023-10-22 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Mary  Nanteza Bridget
ID:
Does recombination of polio viruses with locally circulating enteroviruses play a role in acute flaccid paralysis and vaccine-derived polioviruses?
REFNo: HS770ES

1. General Objective
To identify polio mutations that are common to AFP, and cVDPV cases.

2. Specific Objective
i) To determine if polio/non-polio recombination has occurred in AFP cases
ii) To characterize primary recombination events in the polio virus genome that are associated with AFP, and
iii) To compare the recombination events common in AFP with published cVDPVs and characterize the events that could be common in VDPVs.

 Uganda 2020-10-22 2023-10-22 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Munshi Sulaiman
ID:
Evaluation of the Disability-Inclusive Ultra-Poor Graduation Programme (DIG) in Uganda
REFNo: SS529ES

1. To estimate the impact of the Ultra-Poor Graduation programme on poverty, livelihood and social participation of people with disabilities and their families, compared to controls who do not receive the intervention.
2. To estimate the impact of the Ultra-Poor Graduation programme on poverty, livelihood and social participation of people with disabilities and their families, compared to people without disabilities who received the intervention
Bangladesh 2020-10-22 2023-10-22 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Cristina Clerici
ID:
The Parallel Pandemic of Domestic Violence Against Women in Uganda: is the Lockdown to Blame?
REFNo: SS553ES

Our project seeks to study the relationship between IPV and the relative economic conditions of spouses in Uganda, by exploiting the implementation of COVID-19 containment measures as a source of exogenous variation in the woman's relative income.
Italy 2020-10-22 2023-10-22 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
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