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Jane  Kabami
ID: UNCST-2021-R012588
Peer-led Dynamic Choice HIV Prevention for Women: The Peer-led DCP Randomized Trial
REFNo: HS8462ES

To test the effectiveness and implementation outcomes of a Peer-led Dynamic Choice HIV Prevention intervention for women in Western and South-central Uganda,
Uganda 2026-09-22 14:39:06 2029-09-22 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
David Musoke
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CREATING A NEW TABLE: BUILDING COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER (CHW) CAPACITY TO PARTICIPATE IN AND LEAD RESEARCH AND EVALUATION ABOUT THEIR PROFESSION
REFNo: HS8072ES

4.4. To identify lessons learned by the project team that can be applied to subsequent phases of the project,4.3. To assess the feasibility, acceptability, and scalability of the train-the-trainer course and model ,4.2. To determine whether participation in the train-the trainer workshop is associated with increases in knowledge, skills, and confidence among the participating CHWs, both to facilitate the course and to be involved in research and evaluation more generally,4.1. To collaboratively adapt and facilitate an in-person course originally developed for CHWs in the US to a train-the trainer format that is appropriate for CHWs in Uganda,
Uganda 2026-09-22 14:32:13 2029-09-22 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Derek Peterson
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A History of Independent Uganda
REFNo: SS5846ES

In this research I am using newly opened government records to write a history of Uganda from 1962 up to the beginning of the National Resistance Movement government in 1986. The project aims to fill a major gap in academic writing about Uganda. While there is a profusion of historical scholarship about colonial Uganda, and while there is an even greater body of political science and development studies literature about Uganda in the 1990s and 2000s, historians have written very little about Milton Obote’s and Idi Amin’s Uganda. What scholarship has been written about the period has largely been composed by scholars who saw Uganda’s past as a source of malignancy, division, and failure. My interest is in documenting the marginal forms of political community that Ugandans created in the 1960s and 70s. I am interested in the paths-not-taken of Ugandan history, the imagined polities that activists constituted in order to engage with the Ugandan state. The period was one of extraordinary activity and imagination. My research focused on people who I call ‘commoners’, to signify their distance from the center of power. Some of the people who I’m interested in were demagogues, self-righteously convinced that other Ugandans were their enemies. Others of them were earnest patriots, defending local cultures against the supervening powers of the Ugandan state. All of the people about whom I researching had to navigate the uncertain relationship between center and periphery. They worked in forgotten and marginal places, distant from the political center.
USA 2026-09-17 14:29:07 2029-09-17 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Richard Wemesa
ID: UNCST-2026-R027957
STRATEGIC PLANNING MECHANISMS IN OPTIMIZING STUDENTS ACADEMIC PEROFRMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MBALE DISTRICT, UGANDA.
REFNo: SS6076ES

i. To analyze the extent to which participatory strategic planning processes influence the optimization of students’ academic performance in public secondary schools, particularly in rural Mbale. ii. To assess the influence of strategic resource allocation mechanisms on reducing rural-urban academic performance gaps, as measured by UCE pass rates. iii. To evaluate how strategic human capital management practices mitigate teacher shortages (65:1 pupil-teacher ratio) and enhance instructional quality in underserved schools. iv. To examine the role of government policy implementation in strengthening the relationship between strategic planning mechanisms and academic performance outcomes.
Uganda 2026-09-17 14:27:22 2029-09-17 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Harriet Mpairwe
ID: UNCST-2025-R017439
Leveraging DIGItal solutions for community engagement to PREVENT cardiovascular diseases across the age and socioeconomic spectrum in Wakiso Uganda (DIGI-PREVENT)
REFNo: HS8644ES

1. To co-create and pilot a digital-based community engagement strategy (short educational videos and clinical diagnostic mobile apps) that improves knowledge of prevention of rheumatic heart disease among health workers, schoolteachers and pupils in crowded areas of Wakiso Town Councils (Work Package 1).
2. To evaluate the current physical activity levels of adults in corporate work in Wakiso against WHO recommendations, and to categorize the primary barriers and motives for physical activity to inform community engagement strategies (Work Package 2).
3. To co-create and optimize a digital physical activity enhancement program to support sedentary adults in corporate work in Wakiso Uganda to meet WHO physical activity guidelines (Work Package 2).


Uganda 2026-09-17 14:24:03 2029-09-17 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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