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Wilberforce Tushemereirwe
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Micronutrient Biofortified Cooking Bananas for East Africa
REFNo: A53ES

The goal of the project is to contribute to the alleviation of vitamin A deficiency in Uganda through enhancing the levels of PVA in banana fruit, the major staple food of Uganda.
 Uganda 2019-11-19 2022-11-19 Agricultural Sciences Non-degree Award
Denise Ferris Nicole
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Take-up and Impact of Digital Repayment in Microfinance
REFNo: SS369ES

1. To assess the effect of digital repayment on loan performance and the microfinance model.
a. Understand if access to digital repayment methods affects repayment timeliness and default rates.
b. Understand if access to digital repayment affects group cohesion
2. To assess the effects of digital repayment on microfinance clients.
a. Assess if digital repayment is beneficial for microentrepreneurial clients
b. Assess if digital repayments for microfinance loans affect other use of mobile money
3. To assess how digital repayment differentially affects those who would prefer not to take it up.
a. Assess if those forced into digital repayment change their repayment behaviour.

 Canada 2019-11-19 2022-11-19 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Tessa Laing
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Community responses to processes of land acquisition and resource management for conservation in Uganda
REFNo: SS372ES

The objective of this research is to explore the dynamics that enable local land users in areas bordering protected areas across northern Uganda to collectively influence land acquisition and conservation management processes. As highlighted in a number of recent scholarly review articles, insufficient attention has been given to ‘responses from below’ to land acquisition processes (Boras & Franco, 2013; Hall et al, 2015). While scholars have focused on ‘celebrity conservation cases’ in eastern and south-western Uganda such as communities affected by Mount Elgon and Queen Elizabeth National Park, less attention has been paid to community responses to conservation development in northern Uganda and established protected areas such as Kidepo and Murchison national parks. Community – conservation dynamics amongst populations living in close proximity to smaller forest and wildlife reserves such as Otze and Matheniko have received even less scholarly attention. This research aims to contribute toward such gaps, by focusing on responses to land acquisition for conservation ‘from below’ by communities living adjacent to lesser known conservation areas in northern Uganda. Accordingly, the objectives of this research are to: a) Examine how land acquisition processes and resource management for conservation are initiated and evolve in cases in northern Uganda
b) Examine how collective responses emerge; and
c) Understand the effect collective responses have on land acquisition processes, community development, and conservation outcomes in northern Uganda.
Field research will be undertaken amongst communities living adjacent to or near protected areas, not within the protected areas themselves.
New Zealand 2019-11-19 2022-11-19 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Jose Saenz
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Helicobacter pylori and chronic dyspepsia in eastern Uganda
REFNo: HS305ES

1) Determine the prevalence of dyspepsia and Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infection among residents in a rural community in Eastern Uganda using non-invasive diagnostic means (questionnaire, fecal Hp antigen testing). 2) Correlate dyspepsia with prevalent symptoms identified from questionnaire and results from fecal Hp antigen testing. 3) Identify additional factors associated with dyspepsia using a thorough medical and dietary history. 4) Assess efficacy of Hp eradication following standard-of-care antibiotic treatment of all participants with active Hp infection. 5) Assess efficacy of empiric omeprazole treatment in participants with chronic dyspepsia who are negative for Hp by fecal Hp antigen testing.
USA 2019-10-31 2022-10-31 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Lotte Meinert
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Imagining Gender Futures in Uganda (IMAGENU) Project
REFNo: SS301ES

The overall purpose of this project is to enhance research capacity by generating new knowledge about how changing patterns of gender partnerships relate to livelihood, education, and reproductive and mental health. This will contribute to the development of relevant social gender policies, and create debate in the wider public.

The specific objectives are to explore the following research questions, which constitute Work Packages.

1. How do men and women imagine futures of marriage and child filiation in light of current far reaching changes in patterns of partnership?
2. How are gendered livelihood possibilities affected by changes in partnership and child filiation?
3. How do patterns of gendered reproductive and mental health affect and reflect changing patterns of partnership?

4. How are changing partnership patterns related to education?
Denmark 2019-10-31 2022-10-31 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
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