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.
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USA |
2017-08-16 |
2020-08-16 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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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.
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Uganda |
2017-08-07 |
2020-08-07 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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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?
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Uganda |
2017-08-07 |
2020-08-07 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Alvin Helden Jonathan
ID: UNCST-2019-R001408
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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.
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UK |
2017-08-07 |
2020-08-07 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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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.
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Uganda |
2017-08-07 |
2020-08-07 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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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.
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Uganda |
2017-08-07 |
2020-08-07 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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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.
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Uganda |
2017-08-07 |
2020-08-07 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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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?â€
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?
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Uganda |
2017-07-31 |
2020-07-31 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Stephen Okoboi
ID: UNCST-2019-R001356
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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.
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Uganda |
2017-07-31 |
2020-07-31 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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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.
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Uganda |
2017-07-25 |
2020-07-25 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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