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Caroline Delaire
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Evaluating the potential of point-of-collection chlorination and village savings and loans associations to improve water safety management in rural Uganda
REFNo: SIR47ES

1. To evaluate the effectiveness of an inline handpump chlorinator (PurAll 50H) at improving water safety.
2. To understand the contexts that are favorable for bundling maintenance and chlorination, and the contexts where bundling is not appropriate.
3. To understand the contexts where VSLA-managed “water funds” are successful at increasing financial resources available for handpump maintenance, and the contexts where this strategy is less effective.

 France 2021-02-04 2024-02-04 Engineering and Technology Non-degree Award
Eve  Namisango
ID: UNCST-2021-R014038
 Health Systems Strengthening through person-centred care: development of a feasible and acceptable theory-based workforce approach to improve quality
REFNo: HS1000ES

i) To adapt the conceptual framework of person-centred care for serious illness (MONTHS 1-10).
ii) To determine professional views on the feasibility, acceptability and necessary requirements for health systems change to deliver person-centred and values-based care (MONTHS 11-12).
iii) To design a systems-oriented strategy to enhance the person-centredness of care based on evidence from objectives i+ii (MONTHS 13-16).
iv) To refine and determine psychometric properties of a brief measure of person-centredness for subsequent evaluation of the health systems strengthening strategy (MONTHS 17-24).

Uganda 2021-02-04 2024-02-04 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Nathan Fiala
ID: UNCST-2022-R009060
 “An exploration of groundnut Seed Quality Along the distribution chain in Uganda.”
REFNo: A109ES

The general objective of this study is to conduct an analysis of seed quality along the supply chain of groundnuts in Uganda. The selected crop for this study is important and the seed system is largely informal. Groundnuts is nearly 100% self-pollinating (98-99%) and farmers keep the seeds often beyond the recommended replacement period.
 USA 2021-02-04 2024-02-04 Agricultural Sciences Non-degree Award
Aloysius Ssennyonjo Ssennyonjo
ID: UNCST-2021-R013504
 COVID-19 Lockdown in Slums Informal Urban Settlements: Social and- Health Effects, Coping Strategies and Lessons for Improving the Livelihood of the Urban Poor in Kisenyi, Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: HS887ES

General Objective
To explore the social and health effects of COVID-19 lockdown, coping strategies and lessons for improving the livelihood of the urban poor in Kisenyi, Kampala, Uganda
Specific Objectives

1. To assess the immediate health effects of COVID 19 lockdown among the urban poor in Kampala
2. To assess the immediate social effects of COVID 19 lockdown among the urban poor in Kampala
3. To explore how the urban poor households coped with selected effects of the COVID-19 lockdown
4. To explore lessons for mitigating the effects of COVID 19 lockdown in the immediate recovery phase and consider implications for long term programming for urban poor.

 Uganda 2021-02-02 2024-02-02 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Julius Tumusiime
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Dynamics of Snail Species and Interventions to Reduce associated Schistosoma and Fasciola Parasitic Infections: A Citizen Scientists’ approach in Western Uganda
REFNo: NS148ES

1. determining the diversity and spatial-temporal distribution of freshwater snail intermediate hosts of Schistosoma/Fasciola parasites.
2. evaluating the diversity of Schistosoma/Fasciola trematodes shed per snail host: comparison of traditional and molecular methods.
3. examining the biotic (macrophyte, vertebrate hosts) and abiotic (rainfall, pH, DO, EC, temperature, inorganic ions) factors that influence the occurrence of Schistosoma/Fasciola snail hosts.
4. assessing the dependability/reliability of citizen researchers’ malacological survey, snail species identification and disease risk hotspot identification.

Uganda 2021-01-29 2024-01-29 Natural Sciences Degree Award
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