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Rieko Shibata
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Understanding dynamics and diversity of smallholder farmers' innovation characteristics and processes in Agricultural Innovation System in Uganda
REFNo: SS43ES

The objectives of the research are 1. to understand local agricultural innovation types and processes of smallholder farmers with different socioeconomic characteristics, in relation to the changing socio-economic and environmental conditions in Uganda, 2. to understand implications of innovations on the livelihoods of farmers with different socioeconomic characteristics, and 3. to critically analyse its relevance and effectiveness of current AIS and its practices in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Uganda, in relaiton to local innovation processes, and identify practical solutions.
Japan 2016-12-21 2019-12-21 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Simon  Sensalire
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Increasing TB Case Notification and Documenting Improvement and Cost Effective Strategies in Northern Uganda: A Facility Based Intervention Case-Control Study
REFNo: HS22ES

• To quantify changes in levels of TB case detection and notification in intervention and control facilities following specific intervention.\r\n• To quantify changes in the evaluation of TB presumptive case and enrollment of confirmed TB cases on treatment at both case and control facilities following specific interventions \r\n• To document successful improvement strategies for TB notification at intervention facilities\r\n• To provide in-depth knowledge of barriers and enablers to TB case notification\r\n• To measure cost of implementing improvement strategies for in the intervention facilities \r\n
Uganda 2016-12-21 2019-12-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Marit Blaak
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Learning for Change: Promoting Organisational Learning in education Non-Governmental Organisations in Uganda
REFNo: SS25ES

This research seeks to open up the space for adaptive programme delivery to educationally excluded groups involving community actors. The aim of this study is to facilitate a community of inquiry to understand and promote collective learning between Ugandan education NGOs and external actors. The research will result in the development and testing of solutions as well as a contextualised theory of organisational learning for education NGOs offering non-formal education programmes in Uganda.\r\nSpecific objectives of this study are:\r\n• Analyse internal and external factors and actors shaping organisational learning in Ugandan education NGOs.\r\n• Develop a theory on space and double loop learning in Ugandan education NGOs. \r\n• Identify and test possible solutions to promote organisational learning in Ugandan education NGOs. \r\n• Facilitate a community of inquiry through a Participatory Action Research approach.
Netherlands 2016-12-13 2019-12-13 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Anna Eisenstein
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Health Interactions in South Western Uganda
REFNo: SS46ES

The objectives of this research are: 1. To identify the interactional cues that patients interpret as “care"; 2. To document the relevance of linguistic phenomena to how patients and practitioners negotiate authority in medical settings; and 3. To identify interactional variables that impact patient engagement in medical care/treatment.
USA 2016-12-13 2019-12-13 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Sarah O'Sullivan
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Undisclosed Stigma: the Politics of the Ordinary, ARV Adherence, and Development in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda
REFNo: SS47ES

(1) to understand how the history of war and aid-dependency in northern Uganda, along with the recent introduction of accessible anti-retroviral medication for people living with HIV contributions to ongoing stigma towards with living with HIV. (2) To provide a close qualitative analysis of how stigma associated with HIV post-ARV rollout affects HIV-positive people and their families. (3) to understand how severe aid-dependency and the proliferation of development initiatives in northern Uganda influences the expectations towards how people living with HIV on ARVs should behave as productive citizens contributing to northern Uganda’s post-conflict restructuring.
Canada 2016-12-13 2019-12-13 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Robert  Lukande
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Post-Mortem Assessment of Pathogen and Anti-infective Distribution and Responses i HIV-Positive Patients
REFNo: HS24ES

• Use histopathology to determine pathogen (viral, fungal) distribution within and across tissue compartments\r\n• Improve diagnostic methods for HIV and AIDS-related infections\r\n• Determine distribution of anti-infective agents within and across tissue compartments\r\n
Uganda 2016-12-13 2019-12-13 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Adam Hewitt Smith
ID: UNCST-2019-R001658
An Evaluation of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland Uganda Fellowship Programme.
REFNo: HS27ES

The research objectives are:\r\n\r\n1. To quantify the number of trained physician anaesthetists now working in Uganda, including their roles and responsibilities.\r\n\r\n2. To explore what impact the AAGBI Uganda Fellowship Programme has had on the standards of training in anaesthesia and patient care in Uganda.\r\n\r\n3. To explore how perceptions of the specialty of anaesthesia in Uganda have changed over the duration of the AAGBI Uganda Fellowship Programme.\r\n\r\n4. To understand the impact that different partnerships have had on the specialty of anaesthesia in Uganda over the last 10 years.\r\n
UK 2016-12-13 2019-12-13 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Aggrey Semeere Semwendero
ID: UNCST-2019-R001648
New approaches for the diagnosis of Kaposi's sarcoma
REFNo: HS28ES

To evaluate two novel diagnostic approaches for KS that may be eventually deployed with portable, point-of-care techniques. One approach features confocal microscopy and the other approach uses nucleic acid amplification. We shall compare these new approaches with the gold standard of histology from a traditional skin punch biopsy to determine the sensitivity and specificity of each new approach.
Uganda 2016-12-13 2019-12-13 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Grace Ryan Kathryn
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MIND ME Uganda: using Mental health INformation anD Monitoring and Evaluation systems to evaluate recovery-oriented mental health services in Kampala and Entebbe, Uganda
REFNo: HS12ES

The aim of this research is to carry out a mixed-methods evaluation of the Brain Gain II project and its mental health information and monitoring and evaluation (MIND ME) system, in order to inform policy regarding the continuation and scale-up of recovery-oriented mental health interventions in Uganda.\r\n\r\nObjectives include:\r\n\r\n1.To evaluate Brain Gain II’s MIND ME system, using mixed-methods to assess eight key implementation outcomes, including: acceptability, adoption, appropriateness, cost, coverage, feasibility, fidelity, sustainability\r\n\r\n2.To generate evidence on the effectiveness of Brain Gain II interventions using MIND ME\r\n\r\n3.To evaluate the general process and impact of implementing the Brain Gain II programme, by triangulating evidence generated through MIND ME with evidence generated through original research\r\n
USA 2016-12-06 2019-12-06 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Sara Cavallo
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Linking Banana Xanthomonas wilt and agro-ecological intensification to food practices in Kabarole District, Uganda
REFNo: SS37ES

This research seeks to understand the knowledge networks that have formed in light of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt and how knowledge is translated from scientists to extension to farmers and how knowledge flows influence landscapes.
USA 2016-12-06 2019-12-06 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Elaine Hsiao
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Protecting Place, People and Peace: A Critical Socio-Legal Review of Transboundary Parks
REFNo: SS35ES

The purpose of this research is to assess the peace outcomes of transboundary conservation areas and ways that peace is captured in legal frameworks. This includes field research in three transboundary conservation areas of Uganda to provide qualititative and socio-political context for findings identified in the legal assessment. The three field sites are: (1) Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration, (2) Landscapes for Peace and (3) Mount Elgon.
USA 2016-11-29 2019-11-29 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Twaha Rwegyema
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Assessment of Dietary Patterns for People Living with HIV seeking health services from Regional Referral Hospitals in Uganda
REFNo: HS13ES

1. To identify the foods commonly consumed by PLHIV attending HIV clinics at RRH in Uganda.\r\n2. To compare dietary patterns of malnourished and non-malnourished HIV patients attending HIV clinics at RRH in Uganda.\r\n3. To explore demographic, socio-economic and hospital care factors associated with dietary patterns among HIV patients attending HIV clinics at RRH in Uganda.\r\n4. To identify and compare coping mechanisms during food scarcity between the malnourished and non-malnourished HIV patients attending HIV clinics at RRH in Uganda.
Uganda 2016-11-23 2019-11-23 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Peter Schüle
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World-wide phylogeny and biodiversity of beetle associated nematodes and faunistic data of different groups of insects: Carabidae, Cicindelidae, Scarabaeidae and Odonata
REFNo: NS5ES

 Increasing the knowledge of the inventory of the Cicindelidae species of Uganda\r\n Obtaining better knowledge about biogeographic patterns about Carabidae and other beetle groups in Uganda\r\n include the data of Central African Nematodes into the world-wide research project on the biogeography of Nematodes\r\n
Germany 2016-11-07 2019-11-07 Natural Sciences Non-degree Award
Dickens Akena Howard
ID: UNCST-2019-R000179
Neuropsychiatric Genetics of African Populations - Psychosis (NeuroGAP-P)
REFNo: HS14ES

i) Expand knowledge of the genetic architecture of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Africa through large-scale sample collection, analysis and follow-up.\r\n\r\nii) Increase understanding of the genetics of African populations\r\n\r\niii) Enhance neuropsychiatric genetic research capacity in Africa through the training of scientists and support the development of locally led research programs\r\n
Uganda 2016-11-01 2019-11-01 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Savannah Schulze Marie
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Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda: interrelationships with Batwa and other local communities.
REFNo: SS24ES

This proposed research project is a dissertation project that will focus on increasing our understanding of the relationships between mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) and varied local human communities living around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Despite over 50 years of research on mountain gorillas, little is known about their traditional importance to local communities. I ask the following research questions: (1) How have the relationships between mountain gorillas and various local communities changed over time with conservation management and resettlement practices? (2) How can the integration of local knowledge enhance the participation of local communities in the scientific process, management, and conservation of protected spaces? (3) How do current human-gorilla interactions shape local people’s perceptions of mountain gorillas in Bwindi? I anticipate that findings will show that farmers who must guard their crops without harming gorillas and displaced hunter-gatherers who are cut off from their resource base will have different understandings of and conflicts with wildlife. I also anticipate that findings will increase the longevity of this species (Gorilla beringei beringei) by providing a deeper understanding of the complex associations between gorillas and humans sharing mosaic edge habitats.
USA 2016-10-31 2019-10-31 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Eric Kreutter
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Leadership Emergence: The Moderating Role of Self-Awareness
REFNo: SS32ES

This is a quantitative survey-based study. The proposed study seeks to address questions relating to the mediating roles of Self-Awareness in the process of Leadership Emergence in a small group.
USA 2016-10-31 2019-10-31 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Fred Kakooza
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Exploring the potential and contribution of Facebook in HIV and AIDS prevention among young people in Uganda
REFNo: SS26ES

This study seeks to establish the potential and contribution of Facebook in HIV and AIDS prevention among young people in Uganda.\r\n\r\nThe research will answer the following questions or areas:\r\n• In what ways has Facebook been used in the OneLove and Obulamu campaigns for HIV and AIDS prevention?\r\n• How can Facebook best be used in HIV and AIDS prevention strategies? \r\n• What are the audience perceptions of Facebook in the OneLove and Obulamu campaigns for HIV and AIDS prevention?\r\n• In what ways can the use of Facebook in HIV and AIDS prevention strategies be evaluated?\r\n
Uganda 2016-10-26 2019-10-26 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Fred Brany Lukwago
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Risk assessment of aflatoxins along the dairy value chain in Uganda
REFNo: A9ES

Overall Objective\r\nTo determine the factors associated with aflatoxins contamination, their economic impact along the dairy value chains and estimate the levels of risk exposure of humans to aflatoxins.\r\nSpecific Objectives \r\nThe specific objectives of this work are to:\r\ni. Determine the levels and occurrence of aflatoxins in selected foods, animal feeds, milk and milk products\r\nii. To establish the levels of human exposure and assess the risks associated with consumption of aflatoxins contaminated milk and milk products in Uganda \r\niii. Estimating the postharvest losses due to aflatoxins contamination along the dairy value chains\r\n
Uganda 2016-10-26 2019-10-26 Agricultural Sciences Degree Award
Mahlet Woldetsadik Atakilt
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Beyond the Survivor: The Impact of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence on Families of Women Survivors in Northern Uganda
REFNo: SS36ES

The objective of this research project is to assess Ugandan women’s experiences of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), explore how CRSV experiences affect family members, and evaluate current response programs to survivors. The overall goal is to provide evidence that can inform better response programming to CRSV survivors, and their family members. This project will address the following aims and research questions (R):\r\nAMI 1: Gain a better understanding of the experiences of CRSV survivors and families of survivors \r\nFrom the perspective of CRSV survivors\r\nR1a. How has the experience of CRSV affected the physical, psychological, and social well-being of women survivors living in post-conflict regions of northern Uganda?\r\no R1b. How do women survivors in northern Uganda think their CRSV experience has affected their relationship with their family?\r\no R1c. What kind of support, including response services, do survivors in northern Uganda seek or/and find the most helpful? \r\nFrom the perspective of families of CRSV survivors \r\no R1d. How do family members of CRSV survivors in northern Uganda think the experience has affected their relationship with the survivor? \r\no R1e. How has the presence of a CRSV survivor in the family affected the internal dynamics of the household? \r\no R1f. What kind of support or services related to CRSV experience did family members seek (if any) or would have liked to access?\r\nAIM 2 Estimate the costs of programs and their potential impact\r\no R2a. What are the main types of health services that organizations provide? \r\no R2b. What are the types of outcome measures are used by organizations that provide health services to survivors of CRSV in northern Uganda? \r\no R2c. How do programs measure effectiveness? \r\no R2d. Which programs or interventions are cost-effective, and what are their characteristics? \r\n
Ethiopia 2016-10-26 2019-10-26 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
William  Amone
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Agricultural Productivity and Economic Development in Uganda: An Inclusive Growth Analysis
REFNo: SS38ES

The main objective of the study is to assess the impact of agricultural productivity on economic development in Uganda. \r\nThe specific objectives of the study are:\r\n• To determine the factors that affect agricultural productivity in Uganda.\r\n• To determine the key binding constraints to inclusive economic growth in Uganda that need to be addressed so that the country can achieve sustainable broad base development. \r\n• To analyze the impact of agricultural productivity on GDP, GNI per capita, HDI and Gini Index. \r\n\r\n
Uganda 2016-10-26 2019-10-26 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
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