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Ignatius Odongo Odongo
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Youth Entrepreneurship in South Africa and Uganda: An Investigation of the Influence of Mental Triggers
REFNo: SS487ES

To contribute to the existing discourse on youth entrepreneurship, by introducing a new applied framework from which youth entrepreneurship can be developed based on the influences of mental triggers. The new framework will include, inter alia, a description of the following:
• the environment that can potentially stimulate youth entrepreneurship;
• the kind of entrepreneurship education that will stimulate and provide requisite skills for the nascent youth entrepreneur; and
• the personal characteristics that can be nurtured for entrepreneurial success.
Armed with this new framework, the stakeholders that areresponsible for youth development, particularly in developing countries, will be able to deal with the psychological and other barriers that impede the youth from venturing and succeeding in entrepreneurship.

Uganda 2020-09-29 2023-09-29 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Victoria Nankabirwa
ID: UNCST-2021-R011871
Preventing Infant Malnutrition with Early Supplementation (PRIMES)
REFNo: HS825ES

Aim 1. To describe local experiences and beliefs related to breastfeeding, breast milk expression, non-maternal food sources and infant weight and health.

Aim 2. To determine the range of newborn weight changes, the typical age at which a newborn returns to birth weight, and any association of newborn weight change with early dietary intake, clinical and demographic characteristics, and breastfeeding behaviors.

Uganda 2020-09-29 2023-09-29 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Fred Bulamba
ID: UNCST-2019-R000026
Mapping perioperative care pathways to support surgical treatment in Low-and-Middle Income Countries
REFNo: HS642ES

The aim of this project is to understand the context of perioperative health systems in Uganda, including the main barriers encountered in the delivery of care.

Objectives:
1. Develop a collaborative approach to perioperative care pathway mapping
2. Carry out a rapid appraisal to map 5 pathways (three “Bellwether procedures and two elective procedures) in Uganda.
3. Refine the process and extend to three low- and middle-income countries

Uganda 2020-09-28 2023-09-28 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
marie nanyanzi
ID: UNCST-2019-R001553
Point Of Entry Sauti Za Wananchi (Voices of the citizens)Extension Survey
REFNo: SS468ES

To understand the COVID-19 effects on the citizens’ experience and key services they receive during this era of COVID-19 especially ▪ Establish citizen access to safe water; ▪ Establish citizen access and usage of health services and knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAPs); ▪ Find out level of participation/involvement/interaction in development and public activities /institutions; ▪ Find out access and usage of financial services amongst citizens; ▪ Find out how; what and when citizen access different type of information including government and development information. ▪ Establish the knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAPs) of citizens on different guidelines, policies; laws and regulations etc
Uganda 2020-09-28 2023-09-28 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
mariam Namutebi
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POSTPARTUM CARE: FACILITY READINESS, MIDWIVES’ PERSPECTIVES AND THE EFFECT OF USING INDIVIDUALIZED CARE PLANS ON POSTPARTUM OUTCOMES.
REFNo: HS773ES

General Objective

To assess the facility readiness for the provision of Postpartum care, explore the midwives’ perspectives about postpartum care and evaluate the effect of using individualized care plans on the postpartum outcomes in the greater Mpigi region.
Specific objectives
1. To assess the facility readiness to provide postpartum care in selected facilities in the greater Mpigi region.
2. To explore the midwives’ perspectives towards postpartum care in the greater Mpigi region.
3. To evaluate the effect of using individualized care plans in the immediate and early postpartum period on the monitoring assessments, physical examination and health education of postpartum women in the greater Mpigi region.
4. To describe the postpartum women’s perspectives and midwives’ experiences of postpartum care provided using individualized care plans

Uganda 2020-09-28 2023-09-28 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
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