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BERNARD BASHAASHA
ID: UNCST-2024-R002001
Alternative Pricing within the Value Chain for Coffee Based on the True Costs of Cultivation: Case Study in Uganda
REFNo: A572ES

To assess child labor in Uganda\'s coffee value chain, and the impact of different internalization policies,To estimate the living income for coffee producers in Uganda,To quantify and monetize environmental, health and social externalities in the coffee value chain, and identify potential internalization mechanisms in Uganda,To quantify the environmental, societal, and health-related externalities of coffee production and render them comparable to monetary market values,
Uganda 2025-05-16 9:55:33 2028-05-16 Agricultural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Pawel Fedurek
ID: UNCST-2025-R016767
Exploring people’s attitudes towards snare trapping and their familiarity of the anti-poaching laws in Budongo
REFNo: SS3880ES

Using questionnaire and interview-based approaches, the aim of this study is to examine Budongo local communities’: - Knowledge of anti-poaching (hunting) law enforcement - Attitudes towards snare trapping - Awareness about the risks associated with poaching
Poland 2025-05-16 9:53:56 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Louisa Watson Jayne
ID: UNCST-2025-R017997
The impact of climate-induced ranging behaviour shifts on gastrointestinal parasite load in Bwindi mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei): implications for health and conservation
REFNo: NS956ES

This project aims to (1) explore the impacts that seasonality and the climate crisis are having on the ranging behaviour of Bwindi mountain gorillas and, as a result, (2) determine the impacts this is having on their health through quantifying their gastrointestinal microbiome parasite load.
UK 2025-05-16 9:52:17 2028-05-16 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Noeline Atyayi Prossy
ID: UNCST-2024-R002339
Infrastructural Development in Uganda Colleges of Commerce as a Function of Principals’ Leadership Role Effectiveness
REFNo: SS3749ES

1. To determine the level of leadership role effectiveness among the principals in UCCs.
2. To assess the level of infrastructural development in UCCs.
3. To examine the influence of leadership role effectiveness on infrastructural development in UCCs.
4. To explore the challenges faced by Principals in the course of infrastructural development
in UCCs.
5. To establish strategies for mitigating challenges faced by principals in the course of infrastructural development in UCCs.

Uganda 2025-05-16 9:38:05 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Janet  Sego Jebichii
ID: UNCST-2024-R015572
Development or Displacement? Bilateral Development Finance Institutions and development -induced displacements in Sub-Saharan Africa
REFNo: SS3862ES

To analyze, whether or not the DFIs’ home countries are accountable towards the displaced people for human rights violations by their DFIs’ financed projects and possible future strategies,To assess the human rights responsibility and accountability of bilateral DFIs towards the displaced populations in projects that they finance,To analyze the actual application of the DFIs’ policies on involuntary resettlement in development projects in the host countries,To Examine the legal framework on development-induced displacements and the place of DFIs in prevention and protection of internally displaced persons,The main objective of this research is to analyze the legal framework on the duties of the DFIs to prevent involuntary displacement of people or to mitigate the effects of displacement by projects they finance in the developing countries. ,
Kenya 2025-05-16 9:10:04 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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