Catarina Inverso
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From War to Peace as Conflict goes on: Reinventing the state or ignoring it? Assessing the activities of armed groups and informal cross border networks in the borderlands between DRC, Uganda and South Sudan (working title)
REFNo: SS345ES
The objective is to apply the concept of ‘mobility makes the state’ to the notion of state as a framework to answer a central question: How has displacement become a mechanism of South Sudan’s state-making process?
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Germany |
2019-08-15 |
2022-08-15 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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James Ditai
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Maternal and Newborn Health Priority Setting Partnership in Uganda
REFNo: HS444ES
Purpose:
To identify the unanswered questions about maternal health and newborn care from mothers, carers and clinical perspectives in Uganda and then prioritize those that mothers, carers and health workers agree are the most important for the research to address.
Specific objectives:
• To work with mothers, caregivers and health workers to identify uncertainties about maternal health and newborn care in rural Uganda
• To agree by consensus on a prioritized list of those uncertainties, for research in Uganda
• To publicize the results of the Maternal and Newborn Health Priority Setting Partnership in Uganda and process
• To share the results with the ministry of health, academic researchers and funding bodies
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Uganda |
2019-08-15 |
2022-08-15 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Mark Purdon David
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The Sustainability of International Investment Projects in the Forest and Bioenergy Sectors in Developing Countries: A Comparison of Uganda and Tanzania
REFNo: SS323ES
The objective of this research project is to update research into the sustainability and effectiveness of the foreign investment projects in the land-use sector through a comparative research design involving qualitative and quantitative approaches. Led by Mark Purdon, Assistant Professor at the École des sciences de la gestion at the Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG-UQAM), the project will also involve academic researchers and graduate students at Makerere University in Uganda. In particular, the project will involve Dr. Patrick Byakagaba of Makerere University, School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences who has been undertaking similar research over recent years. The specific objective is to determine the extent to which foreign investment projects in the land-use sector in Uganda and Tanzania, which were first investigated in 2009, are contributing to sustainable low-carbon development, with special attention to payment issues, household land management and project performance.
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Canada |
2019-08-09 |
2022-08-09 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Rosemary Nakijoba
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The Inter-relationship between Gender, Child Labour and Disability among War Affected Communities of Northern Uganda
REFNo: SS113ES
Objectives of the Study
The study is guided by a general objective, subdivided into six specific objectives.
General objective
The study intends to explore the relationship between gender, child labour, disability and the well-being of children in war affected communities of Northern Uganda.
Specific Objectives
The study will be guided by the following objectives:
1.To explore participants’ perceptions on the concepts of gender, child labour and disability among war affected communities of Northern Uganda.
2.To document gender differences that exist in child labour in war affected communities of Northern Uganda
3.To document differences in child labour practices that exist between the war affected disabled and non disabled children in communities of Northern Uganda
4.To examine the cultural beliefs and practices on children with disability in war affected communities of Northern Uganda
5.To explore the existing interventions on disability for children in war affected communities of Northern Uganda.
6.To develop an explanatory theory that links gender, child labour, and disability for the well being of children in war affected communities guiding intervention processes
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Japheth Kwiringira Nkiriyehe
ID: UNCST-2019-R000408
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A Livelihood-Sanitation Nexus: Implications for Sustainable Slum Sanitation in Urban Uganda
REFNo: SS273ES
Main Objective
To explore the role of livelihoods in sustainable slum sanitation in Uganda
Specific Objectives
1. To describe the livelihoods of shared latrine users across three (3) major urban areas in Uganda
2. To relate various slum livelihoods with sanitation demand and supply.
3. To identify which livelihoods play a positive function in maintaining shared slum sanitation
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Daniel Shephard
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Resilient Learners, Teachers, and Education Systems in Uganda: An Exploratory Study
REFNo: SS280ES
There are two overarching research questions in this exploratory study:
1. How do instructors participating in the AVSI-Oxfam program in Palabek, Uganda conceptualize well-being and resilience?
2. How do young people who are currently participating (or may eventually participate) in the AVSI-Oxfam program in Palebek, Uganda conceptualize well-being and resilience?
a) To begin exploratory research about how learners and teachers conceptualize well-being and resilience in contexts of displacement.
b) To learn more about project interventions, especially accelerated education (AE) and teacher education and professional development (TEPD) through key informant interviews and observations.
c) To gain insights about the larger context and operational space in Palabek settlement.
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USA |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Robert Kairania
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TESTING HIV SUSCEPTIBILITY IN FORESKIN TISSUE
REFNo: HS372ES
Study objective: To explore potential determinants of HIV infection in foreskin tissue.
Aim 1: Explore host immune factors that contribute in vitro HIV infection.
Aim 2: Explore microbial factors that contribute in vitro HIV infection.
Aim 3: Explore viral factors that contribute in vitro HIV infection
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Matthew Henderson George
ID:
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Chimpanzee communication and its function in the regulation of fission-fusion social dynamics
REFNo: NS92ES
- Enhance overall understanding of gestural and vocal communication of East Africa Chimpanzees with a focus on the understudied female sex
- Understand how female chimpanzees use short-distance gestures with their infants and long-distance vocalizations to maintain fission-fusion dynamics
- Which gestural or postural markers are used by females and their infants specifically before joint travel
- What behavioural cues produced by infants and mothers differ prior to successful joint travel of all forms
-How behavioral context affects the pant-hoot structure in female chimpanzees
- How individual life-characteristics differences affect pant-hoot vocalizations
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USA |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Natural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Kananura Muhumuza Rornald
ID: UNCST-2019-R000239
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Child health and survival in Central Eastern Uganda
REFNo: HS395ES
The objectives of the study are to: examine maternal and neonatal mortality social and institutional drivers in central eastern Uganda; and establish the role of public authority in shaping maternal and child health in central eastern Uganda.
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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GERALD AHABWE ZIHEMBIRE
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Local Innovation in African cities: A critical assessment of user experiences of prepaid technology for water services in Kampala
REFNo: SS315ES
1. To track the background of prepayment services in water services in Kampala
2. To assess NWSC capacity in managing prepayment in utility services in Kampala
3. To identify user experiences with prepayment in utility services in Kampala
4. To propose strategies for improving prepayment technology in water services in Kampala.
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Paula Rauschendorf Kristina
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Perspectives of officials, health professionals and patients on surgical care in Eastern Uganda – a qualitative study in the districts surrounding Jinja, Uganda
REFNo: HS409ES
This study hopes to provide health care policy makers and providers with further information on how to better cater their surgical services towards the population’s needs and demands. This will hopefully help to allocate resources in a more effective manner and improve access to surgery and health care utilization in general as well as for certain rarer conditions.
Specific Objectives:
a) Investigating underlying beliefs that lead to decisions in offering and using surgical care in Uganda.
b) Finding out about the function of surgical health service facilities and the referral system in the proximity of Jinja.
c) Investigating how the integration of highly specialized short-term surgical services by external specialist into the local health systems can best be achieved, since it is an organisational challenge for information, medical test, appointments, preparation and post-surgical care.
d) Describing the predominant surgical conditions in the perspectives of populations, providers and planners.
e) Exploring the individual and communal views on reasons for seeking surgical care or refraining from it.
f) Identifying possible necessary messages to the general population, e.g. about the urgency and treatability of certain surgical conditions.
g) Examining social support with regard to possible ‘soft barriers’ to surgical care, while also keeping in mind other barriers (in financing and organization) like costs as well as transport and waiting time.
h) Identifying obstacles to reaching optimum care in all areas of knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) on all sides.
i) Describing the perceived need of surgical conditions, especially regarding perception of symptoms and consequences thereof.
j) Comparing these perceived needs with the evaluated needs as described by providers, planners and reports.
k) Examining interactions between patients and health care providers and the process of care delivery from patients’ and providers’ perspectives.
l) Finding out about perceived health status and consumer satisfaction (outcomes) of patients before and after surgery and factors that influence these outcomes.
m) Comparing these perceptions and satisfaction with the evaluated health status (outcomes) as summarized by providers, planners and reports.
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Germany |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Andrew Lukyamuzi
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A DYNAMIC MODEL FOR PREDICTION OF FOOD INSECURITY
REFNo: IS17ES
1. To investigate techniques that will be used in the model selection and integration of existing models in relation to prediction of food insecurity.
2. To design a Dynamic Model that is capable of intelligently selecting suitable models to be used in prediction of food insecurity.
3. To test and validate the proposed model as means of demonstrating the mechanism
and viability of this model.
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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BARBARA NAGGAYI RITA
ID: UNCST-2019-R000062
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EVALUATION OF AN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM IN RURAL SOUTH WESTERN UGANDA: EXPLORING GLOBAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN EAST AFRICA
REFNo: SS327ES
The main objective of this program is to provide hands-on rural volunteer community experience to Ugandan and international university students by providing an opportunity to engage communities to identify and work towards solutions to improve community well-being. The specific objectives of the program are:
1. To support communities in southwestern Uganda with health promotion, health messaging, and community strengthening by working with Village Health Teams, health facility staff, community leaders, and District Health Officers
2. To support students in developing skills with community engagement and other principles of MNCH
3. To provide HCU and MNCHI with opportunities to identify areas for future research in communities
4. To expose students to the strengths, innovations, and dynamics of rural southwestern Ugandan communities
5. To promote awareness about global health issues among national and international students
6. To encourage cross-cultural competency, bidirectional learning, and intercultural exchange of ideas
This study will use a mixed-methods approach to quantitatively measure changes in knowledge obtained by student participants as a result of their experiences, in addition to qualitative interviews to compile a narrative about student, health facility staff, facilitator, and community member perspectives. The results from this study will inform future quality improvement for the program and identify areas of strength and weakness to better serve students and the communities involved.
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Agnes Kiragga
ID:
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Reproductive Health Empowerment through Telehealth
REFNo: HS425ES
1-With input from a Community Advisory Board develop a user-centered mobile-based reproductive health content targeted for men through SMS, interactive voice response.
2-Assess the feasibility and acceptability of the Men’s Telehealth Information Package (mTIP) on uptake of family planning and reproductive health services.
3-Assess the men’s knowledge and attitudes towards family planning following receipt of the Men’s Telehealth Information Package (mTIP)
4-Assess uptake of and attitudes towards FP and couple communication among women whose spouses received the Men’s Telehealth Information Package (mTIP) intervention.
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Joseph Tamale
ID:
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Investigating the role soils nutrients play in regulating soil greenhouse gas fluxes and nitrogen leaching from two contrasting ecosystems: a nutrient limited tropical forest and an intensively fertilized sugarcane plantation in Uganda.
REFNo: A46ES
This PhD study investigates how soil nutrients regulate soil greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes and N leaching in a nutrient limited tropical forest and an intensively fertilized sugarcane plantation in northwestern Uganda. More specifically, the study aims to: (1) investigate how nutrient limitations affect soil GHG fluxes in a tropical rainforest, and (2) quantify how the conversion from natural forest to fertilizer-based sugarcane systems alters soil GHG fluxes, N leaching losses and nutrient use efficiency along a fertilizer intensification gradient (low, standard, and high fertilizer application)
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Uganda |
2019-08-05 |
2022-08-05 |
Agricultural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Charles Mondo Kiiza
ID: UNCST-2019-R001281
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Registry to study the demographics, socioeconomic and clinical factors, etiologies, pathophysiology, management, barriers to care, and outcomes of heart failure patients at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya.
REFNo: HS287ES
1. Estimate the incident rate of outcomes in HF patients in Uganda; assess social and lifestyle factors (incl. demographics, socioeconomic variables, clinical risk factors, diet, and health-related quality of life), etiologies and variations in treatment patterns that might influence mortality and morbidity.
2. Describe determinants of different HF phenotypes (HFpEF, HFrEF, and HF due to valvular heart disease and ALVD), and their management and outcomes.
3. Assess non-cardiac co-morbidities at enrolment, their incidence during the study, and how they influence outcomes from both cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular mortality and morbidity.
4. In a sub-study of approximately 50-60 patients, perform measures of frailty, cognitive and lung function, mental health, adherence to medication, and dietary assessment, with collection of blood and urine samples for central analysis, to further understand the pathophysiologic changes in HF and their relation to outcomes.
5. Describe patient and system barriers to HF care.
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Uganda |
2019-07-30 |
2022-07-30 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Mohammed Lamorde
ID: UNCST-2019-R001293
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Prevalence and Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation in HIV infection in Uganda.
REFNo: HS373ES
• Primary objective 1: To investigate the point-prevalence of AF by screening the outpatient clinic population at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Kampala (Uganda) using the iECG
• Primary objective 2: To study the incidence of AF by annual review of iECG within a long-term cohort of HIV patients that are being followed-up for ART outcomes at IDI (ALT-cohort).
• Secondary objective 1: Evaluate the performance of iECG against routine ECG measurements
• Secondary objective 2: To determine the risk factors associated with incident AF
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Nigeria |
2019-07-30 |
2022-07-30 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Nicolette Manglos-Weber D
ID:
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Religion and Community Caregivers in Uganda
REFNo: SS290ES
This research project investigates the overlapping fields of religion and social welfare provision in Uganda, with a focus on local community leaders who are caring for social welfare needs related to poverty and economic insecurity. It seeks to understand the role of religious beliefs, practices, and structures in the formation and success of such local community caregivers. It also seeks to evaluate the impact of local community caregivers relative to other types of social welfare providers within the religious and political fields. The aim is to produce several academic articles as well as an original book. This book would use portraits of Ugandan community caregivers to describe what makes such a person successful and how to emulate their efforts toward social transformation. It would also use these portraits as a means of instructing readers on the dynamics of religion and politics in post-colonial Africa.
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USA |
2019-07-23 |
2022-07-23 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Wakiko Ohira
ID:
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Possible Roles of Traditional Roles in Resource-Rich Countries: Case of the Bunyoro Kingdom in Western Uganda
REFNo: SS291ES
Main Objectives of the Study
The main objective of the study is to explore and assess the roles of traditional authorities, the Bunyoro Kingdom, as part of the local politics as well as in winder political arena.
Specific Objectives of the Study
1. To understand perceptions of local residents living in Bunyoro towards the Bunyoro Kingdom in order to understand where the legitimacy of the traditional authority lies.
2. To understand the overlapping roles, if any, among traditional authority including chiefs and local government bodies. As Uganda is known for its decentralization policy as well as its recognition of traditional authority in the constitution, understanding the relations between traditional authority and local “government is crucial in this study.
3. To understand the region in the whole picture by examining the relations between the Bunyoro Kingdom and local residents living in Bunyoro as well as local government.
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Japan |
2019-07-23 |
2022-07-23 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Jonathan Kuttainen Joel
ID:
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From rural to digital: the rise of e-money in developing economies
REFNo: SS293ES
This research project looks at the uptake of mobile money services in a rural setting of west Uganda. The project seeks to understand, as per the key research question, how mobile money has a positive effect on poverty alleviation within the context of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the G20’s commitments to financial inclusion for the unbanked? It further aims to understand whether mobile money is a transformational technology, offering value to its users, or a displacing technology that propagates social and economic disparity, privileging a few at the expense of the many? In response to these questions, the research will take a case study approach to explore and evaluate the user experience of mobile money services in the context of a poor, rural region where a high proportion of the community is unbanked.
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Australia |
2019-07-23 |
2022-07-23 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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