FRANCIS KIBIRIGE
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Do Legislatures Enhance Democracy in Africa, Uganda Chapter
REFNo: SS774ES
DLEDA Project seeks to understand how parliaments in (selected) African countries fulfill the core functions of parliament. This knowledge will enable DLEDA to answer three major questions, including:
Question 1: Which policy decisions are made in the national assembly?
Question 2: Who are the Members of Parliament (i.e. caliber) and how do they interact with each other?
Question 3: How do MPs represent their constituents and what are the existing mechanisms of political accountability?
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Uganda |
2021-04-06 |
2024-04-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Allan Lugaajju
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B-CELLS AND HUMORAL FACTORS MEDIATING MALARIA IMMUNITY IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS
REFNo: HS1267ES
1.To quantify reactive Plasmodium falciparum specific B cell subsets against parasite antigens in children and adults.
2.To functionally characterize anti-Plasmodium falciparum B cell subset downstream responses in children and adults
3.To compare the reactivity and proportions of Plasmodium falciparum specific B cell subsets in children and adults
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Uganda |
2021-04-06 |
2024-04-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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David Lwanga
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CONFLICTING PRESSURES FOR CHANGE AND INSTITUTIONAL LEGITIMACY IN KAMPALA CAPITAL CITY AUTHORITY, UGANDA.
REFNo: SS780ES
5. To find out the extent to which quantitative results on institution legitimacy of KCCA supports the initial qualitative results.,4. To examine the extent to which the legitimacy of KCCA is a result of harmonizing conflicting pressures for change. ,3. To find out how KCCA dealt with pressures resisting change during the transformation period.,2. To establish the strategic responses that KCCA adopted to attain institutional legitimacy.,1. To establish what institutional pressures influenced the transformation of KCC to KCCA.,To understand how Kampala Capital City Authority attained institutional legitimacy amidst conflicting pressures for change, that is how change initiatives can be positively embraced, hence creating self-reinforcing sequences for institutional legitimacy. ,
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Uganda |
2021-04-06 |
2024-04-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Borja Perez-Viana
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Go for It while You Can: On Time Discounting in High-Risk Environments
REFNo: SS448ES
The poor populations of developing countries are extremely exposed to the vagaries of chance, with agricultural output and livelihoods dependent on highly variable weather patterns. Against this background, it is important to better understand how people in developing countries make decisions involving risk and time trade-offs. Our understanding of these decisions is still hampered by a number of issues. For one, decisions under risk and over time have long been treated separately, whereas in reality, they are closely linked. Investigations in developing countries have often focused on exceedingly simple preference measures that are presented in a theoretical vacuum. Likewise, the identification of causal determinants of preferences remains elusive. We propose to overcome these limitations by combining the modelling of preferences and their determinants with bespoke tools to measure preferences and beliefs. We further propose to combine the model-driven measurements with randomised controlled trials (RCTs) varying theoretically identified determinants of preferences to enable us to draw clear causal inferences. Combining such RCTs with a longitudinal design will further allow us to investigate interactions between the randomly allocated interventions and naturally occurring uncertainty. The study will be carried out in collaboration with the Field Lab, a non-for-profit research organisation, based in Mbale.
We divide our proposal into five work packages:
1. Modelling and measuring future uncertainty: The future is inherently uncertain. It is even more so in developing countries. This uncertainty may indeed drive both high levels of risk taking in the present and extreme time discounting. In this first work package, we aim to model this issue explicitly, and to measure the underlying quantities, with particular attention to future uncertainty.
2. Future probabilities are ambiguous: This work package extends the insights obtained in the first work package to explicitly take the uncertainty surrounding future probability estimates into account. The modelling and experimental measurements are further complemented by a randomised variation of the institution delivering the future payouts.
3. Gain, loss, and mixed inter-temporal prospects: In work package three, we propose to extend the theoretical and measurement apparatus deployed in the first two work packages to a full inter-temporal prospect theory model. This is important to model real decisions, which often involve trading off immediate expenditures against uncertain future outcomes.
4. Background risk and behaviour: Starting from a model of the influence of background risk on decisions under risk and over time, we aim to provide crop insurance to randomly selected subsistence farmers in order to shelter them from background risk. This ought to allow us to draw causal inferences on the effect of background risk on preferences and behaviour.
5. Training, aspirations, and locus of control: Taking risks and investing into the future may be mediated by psychological mechanisms such as aspiration levels or locus of control (beliefs on whether one can control one’s destiny). We aim to augment an existing training intervention by motivational elements aimed directly at shifting these psychological mechanisms, to try and nudge preferences and behaviour in desirable directions.
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Spain |
2021-03-31 |
2024-03-31 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Susan Nabadda Ndidde
ID: UNCST-2020-R014331
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Surveillance and Epidemiology of Antimicrobial Resistance Programme (Pilot)
REFNo: HS1268ES
Primary
To evaluate AMR incidence through the establishment of a surveillance platform in LMICs based on Pfizer’s Antimicrobial Leadership Testing and Surveillance (ATLAS) core methodology, while facilitating the expansion of surveillance capacity in participating countries.
Secondary.
To strengthen the quality of identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of major bacterial pathogens by the participating laboratories through retesting at a central reference laboratory;
To estimate and track the prevalence of resistance phenotypes of major public health importance notably extended spectrum cephalosporin resistance, Carbapenem resistance and MRSA;
To generate WGS data that shall be used for epidemiological typing and determining mechanisms of resistance of major resistance phenotypes in participating countries.
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Uganda |
2021-03-31 |
2024-03-31 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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