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Andrew Seguya Ggunga
ID: UNCST-2024-R002054
 Assessing the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Development Index as A Framework for Uganda's Tourism Growth
REFNo: SS3501ES

To create a prioritised ranking of factors that accurately predict tourism and travel growth in Uganda, using data-driven methods and expert analysis to measure the impact of each factor on key growth indicators such as tourist arrivals, revenue, and employment.,To investigate, over the same period, whether there are factors not included in the WEF Travel and Tourism Development Index framework that effectively predict T&T growth in Uganda.,This study will investigate, using data from the Tourism Master Plan 2014-2024, whether the factors included in the WEF Travel and Tourism Development Index framework (such as infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and government policies) effectively predict T&T growth in Uganda, measured through indicators of tourist arrivals, revenue, and employment.,
 Uganda 2024-12-23 11:23:37 2027-12-23 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
John Francis Mafuko Francis
ID: UNCST-2024-R002186
 Management of medicinal indigenous knowledge on snakebites in selected districts of Eastern Uganda.
REFNo: SS3517ES

i.To examine the sharing of the medicinal indigenous knowledge by the snakebites herbalists’ in Pallisa and Kamuli districts of Eastern Uganda.
ii. To establish the essential kind of information to be documented by the medicinal indigenous herbalists on snakebites management in Pallisa and Kamuli districts of Eastern Uganda for future use.
iii. To establish whether there is incorporation of the explicit medicinal indigenous herbalists’ knowledge on snakebites by the medical practitioners in Pallisa and Kamuli districts of Eastern Uganda.
iv. To evaluate the likelihood of the community in using the two-eyed seeing framework to integrate western knowledge and indigenous knowledge to deal with the snakebites in Pallisa and Kamuli districts of Eastern Uganda.
v. To propose a medicinal indigenous snakebites herbalists’ knowledge management framework in Pallisa and Kamuli districts of Eastern Uganda.

Uganda 2024-12-23 11:21:49 2027-12-23 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Ernest Mwebaze
ID: UNCST-2024-R015880
 EmpowerHerAI: Advancing Gender Equality and Responsible AI in Sub-Saharan Africa through Gender and Responsible AI Network (GRAIN)
REFNo: SIR456ES

General Objective
The general objective of the research study is to develop and evaluate low-resource multilingual AI language models by addressing issues of gender fairness, bias, and trustworthiness, and promoting inclusive and culturally contextualized AI tools for African languages.

Specific Objectives
1. Conduct a comprehensive review of existing datasets and training processes to identify potential gender gaps in relation to fairness, bias, and trustworthiness issues in low-resource multilingual language models.
2. Curate and collect parallel datasets for selected African languages to improve the development of low-resource multilingual language technologies.
3. Develop a robust and generalizable framework for creating AI language tools that address gender fairness, safety, and trustworthiness in non-English, low-resource multilingual models.
4. Develop a framework for incorporating human feedback and preferences into evaluating multilingual machine translation, speech recognition, and synthesis models, addressing the unique gender challenges presented by low-resource settings.

 Uganda 2024-12-23 11:15:21 2027-12-23 Engineering and Technology Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
KADAI LAWAN ALHAJI
ID: UNCST-2024-R015583
 Analysis of Antimicrobial Metabolites of Aspergillus fumigatus, Isolated from Kitagata Hot Spring Utilizing Metabolomic and Molecular Docking Techniques
REFNo: NS891ES

Objectives
1 To ascertain physicochemical characteristics of Kitagata hot springs.
2 To isolate and identify thermophilic Aspergillus fumigatus from water sample of Kitagata hot spring.
3 To produce, extract and fractionate metabolites of thermophilic Aspergillus fumigatus to be isolated.
4 To determine the efficacy of antimicrobial value of extracted metabolites from the study organisms.
5 To simulate and predict the interaction between two structures of the metabolites

 Nigeria 2024-12-23 11:14:18 2027-12-23 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Edgar Mulogo Mugema
ID: UNCST-2023-R008170
 Improving business continuity for health services following extreme weather events (RESilience in HeAlth Post-Extreme weather events-RESHAPE Study)
REFNo: HS5370ES

Overall Objective

The primary objective of the proposed study is to develop and deploy the tools that will help healthcare services to better prepare for EWEs, cope better when affected by such events, and recover more effectively afterwards.


Specific Aims
Aim 1: Describe the healthcare systems in the Kasese District, and its served communities and how both have been affected by and responded to EWEs to provide a foundation for locally relevant insights into processes and adaptations, and their influence on health outcomes

Aim 2: Develop, with local partners, through business continuity planning, resilience engineering and participatory research methods, protocols for EWE preparedness, response and recovery, and guidance on good practices, knowledge exchange, and interventions development as a process for enhancing resilient healthcare delivery

Uganda 2024-12-23 11:10:15 2027-12-23 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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