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DAVID KITYA
ID: UNCST-2022-R009620
 Analysis of the out-of-pocket costs of neurosurgical care in Uganda
REFNo: HS5875ES

3. To assess the socioeconomic impact of neurosurgical care on patients and their families/caregivers in Uganda, and to identify the key cost-related factors contributing to this burden within the local context.,2. To ascertain the proportion of patients experiencing catastrophic and impoverishing healthcare expenditure due to their neurosurgical care.,1. To determine the direct and indirect out-of-pocket costs borne by patients receiving neurosurgical care.,The main objective of this study is to quantify the OOP expenditure costs for patients receiving neurosurgical care in Uganda to estimate the proportion of patients experiencing CHE,
 Uganda 2025-05-23 13:30:41 2028-05-23 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
MARTHA GIMONO
ID: UNCST-2024-R016208
 The Readiness of Emerging Adults (18-25 years) Living with Type 1 Diabetes to Transition from Pediatric to Adult Healthcare in Jinja District - Uganda.
REFNo: HS5871ES

1. To develop transition screening tools for emerging adults living with T1D in Jinja District, Uganda.
2. To understand facilitators of transition readiness among emerging adults living with T1D in Jinja District, Uganda.
3. To determine the level of transition readiness among emerging adults living with T1D in Jinja District, Uganda

 Uganda 2025-05-23 13:28:29 2028-05-23 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Oculi Jasper
ID: UNCST-2024-R004987
 Azotobacter and Pseudomonas bio-fertilizer for enhanced yield of maize (Zea mays) and Turtle beans (Phaseolus Voulgaris) in Uganda
REFNo: A594ES

i. To isolate and characterize isolates of azotobacter and pseudomonas bio-fertilizers which is efficacious as bio-fertilizer in Uganda.
ii. To evaluate the efficacy of azotobacter and pseudomonas bio-fertilizers on growth and yield of maize (Zea mays) and turtle beans (phaseolus voulgaris) in the greenhouse trial at Kyambogo University.
iii. To evaluate the efficacy of azotobacter and pseudomonas bio-fertilizers on growth and yield of maize (Zea mays) and turtle beans (phaseolus voulgaris) in the field at Kyambogo University farm.

 Uganda 2025-05-23 13:24:17 2028-05-23 Agricultural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Johnblack Kabukye Kabaalu
ID: UNCST-2019-R001109
 PEPROOM – Patient Engagement and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Oncology using Mobile health tools in Uganda: A mixed-methods formative study
REFNo: SS3900ES

Main Objective
1. This project aims to enhance patient engagement and empowerment by increasing cancer awareness through efficient and effective dissemination of cancer information and advice. It also aims to develop/adapt patient-reported outcomes (PROs) measures for patients with cancer in Uganda, and improve PROs through cancer awareness, PRO tracking, reminders and personalized support. Overall, the project will contribute to research and evidence on patient-centered care in Uganda.
Specific Objectives
1. to explore knowledge, attitudes, and practices of cancer care providers and patients at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) with regards to patient empowerment and patient-reported outcomes (PROs
2. to identify PROs considered most important, relevant, and/or actionable for cancer care at the UCI, and develop/adapt measures (tools) to track these PROs
3. to develop, implement, and evaluate a telephone system for automated provision of cancer information related to the PROs and for administration of the PRO measures in (ii) above (i.e., in audio telephone questionnaire format)
4. to study the impact of the telephone system on the PROs above and other selected clinical care processes and outcomes (e.g., satisfaction with care, adherence to appointments, disease progression)
 Uganda 2025-05-23 13:23:23 2028-05-23 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Richard Idro
ID: UNCST-2021-R013599
 Development of a clinical decision support (CDS) tool to address the epilepsy treatment gap in Uganda: A pilot study
REFNo: HS5127ES

Aim 1: To develop a machine learning-enabled clinical decision support (CDS) tool to choose an appropriate anti-epileptic drug for initiating treatment among children with epilepsy. Aim 2: To evaluate the effect of the CDS tools on the treatment gap among children with epilepsy in nine health clinics around KCCA and Wakiso, where CDS tool will be implemented. Aim 3: To determine the adoptation and acceptability of the CDS tool among non-specialist providers, who diagnose and treat children with epilepsy (psychiatry clinical health officers and psychiatry nurse) in clinics around KCCA.
Uganda 2025-05-22 12:07:57 2028-05-22 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Asiimwe Aisha
ID: UNCST-2024-R015631
 CORPORATE CULTURE AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN WESTERN UGANDA
REFNo: SS3703ES

To find out the moderating effect of government policies on employee performance in the Kasese and Kabarole local governments in Western Uganda,To establish the extent to which change management influences employee performance in Kasese and Kabarole Districts local governments in Western Uganda,To assess the extent to which employee engagement influence employee performance in Kasese and Kabarole Districts local governments in Western Uganda,To determine the extent to which performance management mechanisms influence employee performance in Kasese and Kabarole Districts local governments in Western Uganda,To examine the extent to which communication patterns influence employee performance in Kasese and Kabarole Districts local government in Western Uganda.,The purpose of this study will be to evaluate the relationship between corporate culture and employee performance in Kasese and Kabarole Districts local governments in Western Uganda. ,
 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:59:38 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Harriet  Kizza
ID: UNCST-2024-R003661
 EXPLORING FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT PRACTICES IN PRE-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION UGANDAN UNIVERSITIES
REFNo: SS3806ES

1.To analyze the formative assessment practices currently employed in pre-service teacher education within Ugandan universities
2.To explore the experiences of teacher educators regarding the implementation of formative assessment in pre-service teacher education
3.To investigate students experiences and perceptions of formative assessment in pre-service teacher education within Ugandan universities
4.To recommend best practices for formative assessment that can enhance teaching and learning in pre-service teacher education programs

 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:58:05 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Nelson Muwereza
ID: UNCST-2024-R015793
 Next Generation Surveillance for Tick-Swine Contact In Endemic And Non-Endemic Regions for African Swine Fever Virus
REFNo: NS913ES

1. Determine the vertebrate host community utilized by argasid ticks, competent vectors of ASFV.
2. Quantify serological evidence of swine exposure to soft tick and hard tick bites.

 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:57:02 2028-05-16 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
BERNARD BASHAASHA
ID: UNCST-2024-R002001
 Alternative Pricing within the Value Chain for Coffee Based on the True Costs of Cultivation: Case Study in Uganda
REFNo: A572ES

To assess child labor in Uganda\'s coffee value chain, and the impact of different internalization policies,To estimate the living income for coffee producers in Uganda,To quantify and monetize environmental, health and social externalities in the coffee value chain, and identify potential internalization mechanisms in Uganda,To quantify the environmental, societal, and health-related externalities of coffee production and render them comparable to monetary market values,
 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:55:33 2028-05-16 Agricultural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Pawel Fedurek
ID: UNCST-2025-R016767
 Exploring people’s attitudes towards snare trapping and their familiarity of the anti-poaching laws in Budongo
REFNo: SS3880ES

Using questionnaire and interview-based approaches, the aim of this study is to examine Budongo local communities’: - Knowledge of anti-poaching (hunting) law enforcement - Attitudes towards snare trapping - Awareness about the risks associated with poaching
 Poland 2025-05-16 9:53:56 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Louisa Watson Jayne
ID: UNCST-2025-R017997
 The impact of climate-induced ranging behaviour shifts on gastrointestinal parasite load in Bwindi mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei): implications for health and conservation
REFNo: NS956ES

This project aims to (1) explore the impacts that seasonality and the climate crisis are having on the ranging behaviour of Bwindi mountain gorillas and, as a result, (2) determine the impacts this is having on their health through quantifying their gastrointestinal microbiome parasite load.
 UK 2025-05-16 9:52:17 2028-05-16 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Noeline Atyayi Prossy
ID: UNCST-2024-R002339
 Infrastructural Development in Uganda Colleges of Commerce as a Function of Principals’ Leadership Role Effectiveness
REFNo: SS3749ES

1. To determine the level of leadership role effectiveness among the principals in UCCs.
2. To assess the level of infrastructural development in UCCs.
3. To examine the influence of leadership role effectiveness on infrastructural development in UCCs.
4. To explore the challenges faced by Principals in the course of infrastructural development
in UCCs.
5. To establish strategies for mitigating challenges faced by principals in the course of infrastructural development in UCCs.

 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:38:05 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Janet  Sego Jebichii
ID: UNCST-2024-R015572
 Development or Displacement? Bilateral Development Finance Institutions and development -induced displacements in Sub-Saharan Africa
REFNo: SS3862ES

To analyze, whether or not the DFIs’ home countries are accountable towards the displaced people for human rights violations by their DFIs’ financed projects and possible future strategies,To assess the human rights responsibility and accountability of bilateral DFIs towards the displaced populations in projects that they finance,To analyze the actual application of the DFIs’ policies on involuntary resettlement in development projects in the host countries,To Examine the legal framework on development-induced displacements and the place of DFIs in prevention and protection of internally displaced persons,The main objective of this research is to analyze the legal framework on the duties of the DFIs to prevent involuntary displacement of people or to mitigate the effects of displacement by projects they finance in the developing countries. ,
 Kenya 2025-05-16 9:10:04 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Lino Ika
ID: UNCST-2021-R011810
 Ergonomic safety factors and 3-6 year-old children's readiness to learn in selected Kampala City Nursery schools
REFNo: SS3770ES

The main objective of this study is to assess the effects of ergonomic safety factors on 3-6 year- old children's readiness to learn in selected Kampala City Nursery schools. The specific objectives are as follows: 1. Evaluate the ergonomic safety considerations for 3-6 year-old children’s readiness to learn in selected Kampala City Nursery schools. 2. To examine the effects of the design of furniture on 3-6 year-old children’s readiness to learn in selected Kampala City nursery schools. 3. To analyse the effects of sitting location on 3-6 year-old children’s readiness to learn in selected Kampala city nursery schools. 4. Explore the classroom health related safety factors that influence 3-6 year-old children’s readiness to learn in selected Kampala city nursery schools.
 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:09:01 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
MATTHEW MCLENNAN
ID: UNCST-2023-R005558
 A Genomics Census of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the Greater Budongo-Bugoma Landscape: A Tool to Aid Long-term Monitoring and Conservation of a Critically Threatened Great Ape Population
REFNo: NS957ES

The objective of this 3-year study is to conduct a comprehensive genetics census of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) living in the Greater Budongo-Bugoma Landscape. This critically important great ape population comprises those in the Budongo and Bugoma Central Forest Reserves (CFRs) and the unprotected ‘corridor’ areas surrounding these main forest blocks. Chimpanzees throughout this landscape are highly threatened by ongoing agricultural and infrastructural developments, including those connected to the development of Uganda’s oil industry, with the chimpanzees residing outside protected areas facing greatest impacts. Fieldwork will involve non-invasive collection of faecal samples from all ‘corridor’ chimpanzee groups, with related data collected on ranges and habitat use, in addition to faecal sampling of populations within the main Budongo and Bugoma CFRs. The study will employ state-of-the-art genomics analyses to provide novel baseline data on the size, structure and viability of this critical but highly threatened population of great apes. The study will directly aid long-term population monitoring and inform effective conservation strategies on the ground to help safeguard the chimpanzees inhabiting this fast-developing region of Uganda.
UK 2025-05-16 9:06:39 2028-05-16 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Christopher Baleke
ID: UNCST-2025-R016752
 A Review of Medical Records and Infrastructure Capacity to Inform Prospective Cohort Studies in Maternal and Child Health in Rural Uganda
REFNo: HS5841ES

Primary objectives 1. To review and extract data collected during antenatal care, birth, and postnatal periods at St. Francis Buluba Hospital and Mayuge Health Centre IV, assess the data types and methods of routinely gathered pregnancy-related, including laboratory and pharmacy data. 2. To determine the quality of perinatal data collected at St. Francis Buluba Hospital and Mayuge Health Centre IV with interest in completeness and legibility. 3. To explore the extent to which current records reflect current WHO recommendations in terms of timing of antenatal, postnatal visits and data collected at each visit. 4. To assess the feasibility of linking perinatal health records across antenatal, birth, and postnatal care into a standardised digital data collection format, capturing the standard WHO criteria Secondary Objectives 1. To determine the prevalence and risk factors of adverse perinatal and child-hood outcomes among mothers and children attending at Mayuge Health facilities from 01 January 2023 – 31 December 2024. 2. To assess the capacity and utilization of laboratory and pharmacy services in supporting maternal and child health
Uganda 2025-05-16 9:05:21 2028-05-16 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
SAMUEL JJUNJU
ID: UNCST-2023-R006269
 ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER SCREENING AND REFERRAL PRACTICES AT PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA
REFNo: HS5825ES

Aim 1: Determine the screening and referral rates of patients with suspected ARF at primary healthcare facilities in southwestern Uganda.
Aim 2: Determine the health workers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices to screen and refer patients with suspected ARF.
Aim 3: Evaluate the barriers to screening and referral of patients with suspected ARF at primary healthcare facilities in southwestern Uganda.

 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:04:14 2028-05-16 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Joseph Greenbaum
ID: UNCST-2024-R004974
 Electronic Waste Recycling and Environmental Policy in East Africa
REFNo: SS3908ES

Many cities across the global south are rapidly urbanizing and confronting increasing levels of wastes. This poses a challenge for cities’ infrastructural capacity. This project asks how cities and states adapt to rapid population growth and the byproducts of growing industrial sectors, and the wastes these growing forces bring. Batteries and consumer electronics are ubiquitous in daily life, yet the fate of these products once they reach the end of their lives remains understudied. This study seeks to understand how city and state governments make decisions on how to recycle these electronic wastes, how governments work with private sector actors to engineer recycling infrastructures, and where environmental externalities from the increased volumes of electronic wastes end up. This study examines state and city policy surrounding recycling and environmental protection, as well as metal recycler’s strategies for recycling electronic wastes in Kampala, Uganda. One objective of the study is to understand how governments and private recyclers separate electronic wastes from the general overall waste stream. Futhermore, the study seeks to understand different models for recycling electronic wastes once these wastes have been separated.
 USA 2025-05-16 9:02:06 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
KYOGABIRWE ROSSETTE
ID: UNCST-2024-R016174
 Elderly Care, Resilience, and Psychological Well-being among Elderly Nuns in the Mbarara Archdiocese, Western.
REFNo: SS3747ES

1. To assess the suitability of the infrastructural and material facilities available to elderly nuns in the Archdiocese of Mbarara.
2. To examine the healthcare services provided to elderly nuns.
3. To evaluate the link between social care and psychological well-being.
4. To explore the extent to which spiritual care sustains resilience among elderly nuns.

 Uganda 2025-05-16 10:31:49 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Deborah Manyiraho
ID: UNCST-2024-R016325
 Enhancing Education Service Quality through the Deans’ Managerial Competencies amidst Organizational Politics in Ugandan Public Universities
REFNo: SS3735ES

1. To assess the extent to which the study variables exist in the faculties of education in public universities in Uganda.
2. To establish the influence of deans managerial competencies on level of service quality in faculties of education.
3. To establish the moderation effect of organizational politics on the relationship between the dean’s managerial competencies and service quality.
4. To examine the challenges faced by faculty deans in enhancing education service quality amidst organizational politics.

Uganda 2025-05-16 10:30:11 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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