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Michael Lubwama
ID: UNCST-2024-R002491
Sustainable Energy Systems for Refugee and host communities in Africa (SUNNY)
REFNo: SIR416ES

Main Objective
To gain insights into local contexts for SUNNY solutions’ implementation, define their use cases and technical requirements so as to ensure that further developments of the project reach the highest possible impact.

Specific Objectives
a) To determine the energy-related local conditions in Bidibidi refugee settlement and its local host community i.e., from a social, gender, cultural, economic, institutional, market, regulatory and environmental point of view.

b) To identify the local stakeholders, and their connections in Bidibidi refugee settlement specifying “key actors” that will be engaged in the MALLs (Multi-Act Learning Labs), regular participants in co-creation processes and end-users.

c) To determine the specifications, requirements and KPIs for use cases in Bidibidi refugee settlement and SUNNY tech. Solutions

Uganda 2024-11-06 10:26:43 2027-11-06 Engineering and Technology Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Phoebe Shambaugh Elise
ID: UNCST-2024-R003211
Children of War: Evolving mobilization and conceptions of child soldiering in Uganda, 1900-2000
REFNo: SS3296ES

This is one of the case studies of a larger UK Arts and Humanities Research Council grant. The research is comparative across time, region, forms of warfare and varying forms of child recruitment and military use across Africa, from the colonial period to approximately 2000, including archival and secondary data, and three focal case studies (Uganda, Angola, DRC). We are interested to both trace the evolution of child and youth involvement in armed conflict, and humanitarian and human rights responses to children in conflict which gave rise to the concept of 'child soldiers'.

The Uganda case study is critical to the project due to Uganda's centrality in humanitarian narratives and research on children in armed conflict over the last 30 years, as well as its interconnection with regional conflict dynamics (especially with Sudan/South Sudan, DRC and Rwanda). The Uganda case study intends to historicize and culturally-ground the concept of ‘child soldier’ which came to the fore in the 1990s and 2000s, and aims to trace the evolution of this concept and its relation to broader ideas of childhood and child labour in the colonial and post-colonial context. The case study therefore takes a wider temporal frame (1900-2000) than the overall grant project (1940-2000) to capitalise on Uganda’s rich history and archival sources. The specific objectives for the Uganda case study are:

To generate a historical dataset on the involvement of children and youth in armed conflict in Uganda, which will be analyzed comparatively across the other case contexts involved in the broader grant project;

To analyse the historical and regional diversity of ideas of childhood and youth across Uganda, and how these shape children and youth’s involvement in violence

To map (across time and space) humanitarian and local social responses to children/youth involvement and use in armed conflict, focusing on developing discourses and exchange/tension between local and global frames.

To develop connections to practitioners and networks working on child soldiers, DD[R]R (disarmament, demobilization, [rehabilitation], reintegration) and child/youth development across Uganda (both regionally and nationally)
USA 2024-11-06 10:24:17 2027-11-06 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Anahit Tevosyan
ID: UNCST-2024-R002668
Productive Business Loans for Women in Uganda: Evaluating the Impact of Large, Uncollateralized Loans
REFNo: SS3181ES

To quantify the impact of providing large, uncollateralized loans to women entrepreneurs. The power calculation (shown in the section later) confirms that with 1,000 treated and 1,000 control entrepreneurs, this study is powered at 80% to detect a 0.135 standard deviation (SD) effect on business profits, translating to an increase of approximately USD 64 per month, or 10% of the average borrower’s profits. To test if we can generate a credit scoring model to predict which women entrepreneurs will repay the loans and, relatedly, who will benefit from the loans. To understand if the provision of large uncollateralized loans is financially viable for the lender.
Armenia 2024-11-06 10:05:12 2027-11-06 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Simon  Kasasa
ID: UNCST-2021-R012861
Impact and Process evaluation of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) Urban Vegetable Project in Uganda
REFNo: HS5075ES

1. Assess the effectiveness of GAIN’s Urban Vegetable Project in Uganda for increasing the quantity of vegetables consumed and improving the diet quality of BoP consumers, specifically women and children. 2. Conduct a process evaluation of GAIN’s program that provides data for a PIP analysis to support the findings of the impact evaluation.,This aims at conducting an impact and process evaluation of GAIN’s Urban Vegetable Project in Uganda in order to generate evidence that will contributes to the body of knowledge that will be used to guide future dietary interventions in the country ,
Uganda 2024-11-06 10:01:53 2027-11-06 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Hellen Opolot
ID: UNCST-2019-R001724
Assessing Knowledge and Perceptions of Gene Therapy Use Towards the Establishment of a National Regulatory Guidance Document in Uganda
REFNo: HS5136ES

1.2 Overall Objective
To explore the knowledge and perceptions of gene therapy use and application towards the establishment of a contextual regulatory guidance document for Uganda.
1.2.1 Specific Objectives
i. To determine the current state of gene therapy research in Uganda.
ii. To explore the knowledge and perceptions of researchers and regulators on gene therapy research and application in Uganda
iii. To examine the existing national, regional and international guidance documents governing gene therapy and identify areas that can be incorporated in the gene therapy guidance development for Uganda.
iv. To identify challenges and opportunities for advancing gene therapy in Uganda.

Uganda 2024-11-01 23:10:40 2027-11-01 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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