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Hayley Dieckmann
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Stress responses of African lions (Panthera leo) in relation to proximity of ongoing fires and fire scars in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
REFNo: NS26ES

To understand stress factors of lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park in order to reduce stressful events and promote coexistence of humans and lions within the park. To determine a correlation between African lions’ stress level and their proximity to ongoing fires and fire scars within Queen Elizabeth National park.
 USA 2017-08-16 2020-08-16 Natural Sciences Non-degree Award
Corrie Decker
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Debating Childhood and Maturating in Colonial East Africa
REFNo: SS91ES

Between 1900 and 1960, missionaries, colonial officials, anthropologists, chiefs, elders, educated elites, and cultural nationalists in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania (at the time British colonial territories) came into conflict over whether or not to eradicate certain African customs governing a child’s maturation into adulthood. Demands to ban African customs are still heard in the international media today. Why were these debates so controversial at the time and why do they continue to invoke intense discord? I argue that these issues sparked such conflict because they dealt with differing opinions about how to manage a child’s maturation into adulthood. I investigate debates about rites of passage, puberty, adolescence, marriage, and definitions of the child culturally and legally in colonial East Africa. Many different viewpoints and approaches informed these debates, but they became polarized around two positions: the protection of the presumed innocent child in the name of universal rights, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the preservation of cultural practices that fostered the child’s maturation toward normative adulthood. Scholars have pointed out that this struggle between universal human rights and culture was one that played out within the politics of colonialism and neocolonialism (Babatunde 1998; Hodgson 2011). These discourses portrayed the child as either a helpless creature in need of saving or a future productive and reproductive member of society. These debates shifted toward the end of the colonial era (1960s) as African teenagers’ greater independence became a source of anxiety as daunting as African nationalists’ demand for the end of colonialism (Burton and Charton-Bigot 2010; Ivaska 2011). This project spans the former British colonies of Uganda (1894-1962), Kenya (1895-1963), Zanzibar (1890-1963), and Tanganyika (1916-1961). I focus on the colonial era in order to show how East African customs became part of an international intellectual debate about child development and maturation.
USA 2017-08-16 2020-08-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
James Nsereko Roger
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The prevalence and risk factors of symptoms of depression, anxiety and somatic complaints among secondary school students in Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: SS81ES

•To examine the prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety and somatic complaints among secondary school students in Kampala. •To determine the co-morbidity of symptoms of depression, anxiety and somatic complaints among secondary school students in Kampala. •To determine the association between socio-demographic factors (age, gender, family composition) and symptoms of depression among secondary school students in Kampala. •To determine the association between socio-demographic factors (age, gender, family composition) and symptoms of anxiety among secondary school students in Kampala. •To determine the association between socio-demographic factors (age, gender, family composition) and symptoms of somatic complaints among secondary school students in Kampala.
Uganda 2017-08-07 2020-08-07 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Racheal Mugabi Ddungu
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Skills Development, Early School Leaving and Employment in Uganda
REFNo: SS85ES

The following questions will serve as research objectives 1. what proportion of candidate enrolled in skills development programmes found employment? 2. what is the difference betweeen those who and those who did not find employent? 3. Does the tendency to find employment vary by sector? 4. To what extent does the skills development meet the needs of the economy and the labour market? 5. What are te lived realities and experiences of participants in respec to the dynamic relationship between schooling, skills development and employment? 6. What are the stregth, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of skills development programmes in addressing employment?
 Uganda 2017-08-07 2020-08-07 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Alvin Helden Jonathan
ID: UNCST-2019-R001408
 Auchenorrhycha (leafhoppers and relatives) of Kibale: initial species list, host plant associations and mouthpart morphology.
REFNo: NS21ES

To provide biodiversity inventory and species' ecology data for the Auchenorrhyncha fauna of Kibale National Park and thus to contribute to the biodiversity inventory priorities of UWA. Creation of an initial species list of Auchenorrhyncha of Kibale, together with photographs of specimens, making their identification more accessible to students and researchers at MUBFS. Also to collect some ecological data related to host plants and mouthpart structure.
 UK 2017-08-07 2020-08-07 Natural Sciences Non-degree Award
Doreen Nabukalu
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ASSESSMENT OF VILLAGE HEALTH TEAMS TO IMPROVE PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE IN RURAL SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA.
REFNo: HS80ES

• To assess the performance of VHTs in the conduct of verbal autopsy and collection of vital statistics in a rural setting. • To ascertain the leading causes of Adult Mortality in Bugoye sub county through facilitating of VHTs to conduct verbal autopsies in at least 75% of households in their villages by the end of nine months • To ascertain the magnitude of various causes of Adult Mortality in Bugoye sub county through facilitating of VHTs to conduct verbal autopsies in at least 75% of households in their villages by the end of nine months. • To examine the validity of adult mortality statistics gathered by VHTs by comparing health facility data and verbal autopsy data.
Uganda 2017-08-07 2020-08-07 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Richard Wamimbi Wotti
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Understanding social norms to prevent and respond violence against children in and around schools
REFNo: SS103ES

The overall objective of the study is to provide an understanding of social norms to prevent and respond to violence for children thrive in safer environment to realize their rights and enhance their well being . The specific objectives include: 1. Establish the existing social norms that underpin and perpetuate against violence in and around schools for girls and boys? 2. Investigate the role of social norms in driving, sustaining and mitigating behavior that contributes to violence against children in and around schools? 3. Explore the existing reference groups ( networks) and their role in influencing social norm change in and around schools? 4. Examine to what extent social norm change has embedded itself within the community, sufficient to change children’s lived experience in preventing and responding to violence against children 5. Explore how social norms change has impacted children’s lived experiences, (including enhancing positive socio-cultural capital supporting child safety and well-being?) 6. Find out the key drivers of social norms change in creating a safer school environment for children to thrive? 7. Suggest programming approaches and steps that may be applied to enhance positive social norms and shift harmful social norms in different context to prevent violence against children.
Uganda 2017-08-07 2020-08-07 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
VICTORIA  NAKIBUUKA
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EVALUATION OF THE UTILITY OF CRP AMONG PRETERMS WITH SEPSIS IN A LOW RESOUCE LIMITED SETTING: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
REFNo: HS96ES

Objective 1: To compare CRP levels versus gestational age categories among preterms with sepsis admitted at Nsambya Hospital Objective 2: To compare the CRP levels versus organisms identified among preterms with neonatal sepsis at Nsambya Hospital Secondary Objectives Objective 3: To compare clinical outcomes versus CRP levels and identified organisms among preterms at Nsambya Hospital Objective 4: To determine bacterial sensitivity patterns among preterm infants with sepsis at Nsambya Hospital.
Uganda 2017-08-07 2020-08-07 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Brenda Namugumya
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Integrated nutrition strategies beyond paper realities: the case of Uganda
REFNo: SS83ES

The overall research question is “has Uganda’s adoption of integrated nutrition strategies (INS)resulted in actual changes in nutrition governance?” The specific research questions for the study are: 1) To what extent has nutrition been integrated into policy processes at various ministries? 2) What factors are facilitating or inhibiting integration of nutrition in policy processes of various ministries? 3)Have INS been consistently adopted into local government policy processes? 4)How has nutrition service delivery on the ground changed as a result of the adoption of the INS?
Uganda 2017-07-31 2020-07-31 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Stephen Okoboi
ID: UNCST-2019-R001356
 HIV self-testing and linkage to care among Men having sex with Men (MSM). A trial Distribution through MSM networks in The Aids Support Organization (TASO)
REFNo: HS89ES

Aims 1. To conduct assess the barriers and facilitators of a formative research on the distribution strategy of HIVST kits through the peer networks (peers) of MSM Aim 2. To conduct a pilot trial for evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of distributing HIVST kits using peers and linkage to HIV services. Aim 3. To map and analyze the network of connections between peers and the peers they recruited during the trial.
Uganda 2017-07-31 2020-07-31 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Martin Mbonye Kayitale
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Prevalence and incidence of nodding syndrome and other forms of epilepsy in onchocerciasis endemic areas in Northern Uganda after the implementation of biannual mass ivermectin administration
REFNo: HS77ES

Main objective The main objective of this study is to establish the prevalence and incidence rate of NS and other forms of epilepsy in selected parishes in the districts of Kitgum, Pader, Lamwo, Adjumani and Moyo. Based on the epidemiological data available from the 2012 census, a comparison of prevalence and incidence rate from 2016 in different age groups will allow to test whether there is an association between the onchocerciasis interventions, specifically ivermectin use and larviciding rivers and the increase / decrease in prevalence of incidence of NS and other forms of epilepsy. The elaborated epidemiological data from Moyo and Adjumani will allow for comparison of such a potential effect in an area with long standing onchocerciasis control to a recent, intense onchocerciasis intervention program, combined with targeted epilepsy treatment as we find it in Kitgum, Pader and Lamwo today. Specific objectives 1. Compare the 2016 data on prevalence of NS and other forms of epilepsy in the Kitgum, Pader and Lamwo districts with the 2012-13 census study data. 2. Compare the 2016 prevalence of new onset cases of epilepsy (epilepsy onset < 1 year ago) in the Kitgum, Pader and Lamwo districts with the data from the survey data obtained in 2012 and 2013. 3. Establish the prevalence and incidence rate of all forms of epilepsy in the Adjumani and Moyo districts and compare these to the prevalence and incidence rate in Kitgum, Pader and Lamwo districts from 2016. 4. Relate the epidemiological data on all forms of epilepsy from the 5 districts to data concerning onchocerciasis endemicity, ivermectin and larvicide use, and entomological findings. 5. Study the changes in clinical presentation of NS and mortality associated with NS and other forms of epilepsy between 2012 and 2016.
Uganda 2017-07-25 2020-07-25 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Timothy Allen Peter
ID: UNCST-2019-R001369
 Public Authority and International Devlopment
REFNo: SS92ES

The objective is to produce high-quality, evidence-based research that informs local, national and international policies to promote inclusive growth. Inclusive growth in many places in Africa and elsewhere has proved elusive. Formal governance can be remote, development policies persistently fail and humanitarian aid, at best, assists a minority. CPAID will use innovative approaches to research across disciplines and beyond narrow academic concerns. Our research will draw its understandings from ordinary people, and in particular vulnerable, marginalised and excluded groups and populations. CPAID will take public authority as its conceptual starting point, exploring the ways in which governance of people actually occurs. CPAID used the term public authority to refer to all forms of authority beyond the immediate family unit, from clans, religious institutions, aid agencies, civil social organisations, rebel militia and vigilante groups - to formal and semi-formal mechanisms of government. The public authority lens offers a new foundation for development discourse and hence for policy and interventions. It offers a set of tools for exploring African social and political realities. The lens offers an essential means of gathering evidence about these dynamics as well as the challenges and opportunities associated with them. Our research will be organised around studies of public authority at macro and micro levels to analyse: how public authorities regulate moral orders, deal with crimes (including regulation of sexually-based violence and the management of vigilantes), offer a degree of security and justice (including informal policing, and enforcing land rights); tax and redistribute fiscal resources socially and regionally; use and regulate new media technologies (including social media and mobile money); relate to disease control and health promotion (including tablet distribution for parasitic infections, the consequences of Ebola outbreaks and responses to non-biomedical health matters, such as witchcraft and spirit possession); and provide education and other public services (including allocation of land rights and land access). In all areas, we will be asking how public authorities function or do not function for ordinary people (including minorities and excluded sections of society). Our interest is in customary and neo-customary authorities as well as state ones. Distinguishing between state and customary authorities, as well as understanding how they interact, merge or generate hybrid new forms is an ambitious task that requires more grounded research. The research will also outline the processes by which effective and legitimate forms of public authority – those, which are delivering public goods and are inclusionary in orientation (i.e. do not aggressively exclude or oppress vulnerable groups and individuals) can be strengthened in practice. The research will draw upon the extensive research CPAID scholars have done on these issues, notably on the provision of security and justice in conflict affected and fragile settings .CPAID researchers have also made major contributions to the study of health-related institutions – including public health programmes, disease control and local or customary measures to promote wellbeing and the alleviation of suffering.
UK 2017-07-20 2020-07-20 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Carissa  Western Strum
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Emergent Empowerment: Assessing the Impacts of Conflict on Gendered Relations, Identities and Opportunities in Acholiland
REFNo: SS58ES

The research project will seek to explore changes in gender roles and dynamics brought about by conflict in Acholiland, Northern Uganda, and to understand how these changes have affected cultural/traditional ideas about masculinity and femininity and the positions/situation of Acholi women and men in post-conflict society. While research has indicated both local level economic gains, and changes in women’s political participation and representation at the national level, this research will seek to explore, holistically, how changes brought about by conflict impact, both positively and negatively, all aspects of Acholi women (and men’s) lives. The project will therefore prioritize Acholi women and men’s own interpretation of their conflict experiences, and of the impact of conflict-triggered changes on their roles and status within their families and communities. Given the significant role played by NGOs/INGOs in implementing Northern Uganda’s peacebuilding and development agenda, the project will also seek to understand how organizations/stakeholders working in this context are addressing and responding to changing gender norms and dynamics, and whether such approaches are in line with women and men’s own interpretation of their experiences and needs.
Kenya 2017-07-13 2020-07-13 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Sauda Nabukenya
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Traditional institutions,Land, chiefs: The foundation of Law and Legal institutions in Uganda
REFNo: SS84ES

To investigate the role of traditional institutions, land,chiefs and in shaping laws and institutions during the colonial period
 Uganda 2017-07-13 2020-07-13 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Catherine Hobaiter
ID: UNCST-2019-R001480
 Gestural communication in wild mountain gorillas
REFNo: NS23ES

All great apes use gesture to communicate; however, to date, there remains no study of gestural communication in mountain gorillas - an iconic and highly endangered species. Here I hope to establish the first one. My research group has published the repertoire of gestures for wild chimpanzees and wild bonobos; here we aim to establish the repertoire of gestures for wild mountain gorillas and compare and contrast these systems of communication. I will balance data collection across age-sex groups and across behavioural contexts to describe the types of gestures used and the goals for which they are used in mountain gorillas.
 UK 2017-07-13 2020-07-13 Natural Sciences Non-degree Award
henry bazira
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DETERMINANTS OF MALE INVOLVEMENT IN ANTENATAL CARE IN MUKONO DISTRICT, UGANDA
REFNo: HS81ES

1. TO DESCRIBE THE LEVELS OF MALE PARTICIPATION IN ANTENATAL CARE SERVICES IN MUKONO DISTRICT. 2. TO ASSESS MEN’S ATTITUDES TOWARDS MALE INVOLVEMENT IN ANTENATAL CARE SERVICES IN MUKONO DISTRICT 3. TO ASSESS THE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MALE INVOLVEMENT IN ANTENATAL CARE SERVICES IN MUKONO DISTRICT.
Uganda 2017-07-13 2020-07-13 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Jennifer Moodley
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Improving timely diagnosis of symptomatic breast and cervical cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa
REFNo: HS60ES

1. Develop and validate a tool to measure community breast and cervical cancer symptom awareness, knowledge and beliefs in Africa; 2. Describe and compare breast and cervical cancer symptom beliefs, knowledge and awareness in rural and urban settings in two countries in SSA-Uganda and SA; 3. Assess the degree to which symptom overlap between breast and cervical cancer and common infectious diseases influence symptom assessment and help-seeking behavior; 4. Explore primary care level provider interpretation and management of breast and cervical cancer signs and symptoms.
South Africa 2017-06-30 2020-06-30 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Anne Odele
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The meaning, uses and outcomes of functional adult literacy in Uganda
REFNo: SS52ES

The study seeks to describe: \r\n(1) how former literacy participants use the learning from the FAL program in the domains of a) reading, writing and numeracy; and b) their daily livelihoods, and why\r\n(2) the perceived outcomes of applying these practices\r\n(3) the meanings that literacy holds for the participants\r\n
 Uganda 2017-06-27 2020-06-27 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Immaculate Tumwebaze
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Dramatically increased schistosomiasis risk in western Uganda crater lakes – disentangling global climate change impacts and other drivers
REFNo: NS20ES

i. To identify lineages and quantify genetic diversities of both intermediate hosts and their schistosomiasis parasites present in Western Uganda crater lakes. ii. To determine the phylogenetical and biogeographical affinities and dynamics of intermediate host gastropod species and schistosomes in crater lakes along an altitudinal gradient. iii. To asses the variation in physico-chemical water parameters, long-term climatic factors such as temperature and rainfall, and habitat characteristics potentially driving the presence, distribution and (genetic) diversity of intermediate host snails and parasites at different altitudes.
Uganda 2017-06-27 2020-06-27 Natural Sciences Degree Award
REBECCA NANTANDA
ID: UNCST-2019-R001533
 MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA AMONG HIV-EXPOSED AND UNEXPOSED CHILDREN IN UGANDA: BURDEN, GENOTYPES, RISK AND OUTCOME
REFNo: HS56ES

1.To determine the burden of atypical bacterial pneumonia among HIV-exposed and unexposed children with respiratory illnesses in Mulago hospital. 2.To determine the risk factors for atypical bacterial pneumonia among children with acute respiratory symptoms 3.To determine the outcome of children with atypical pneumonia 4.To describe the relationship between the genotypes of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and resistance to macrolide antibiotics.
Uganda 2017-06-21 2020-06-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
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