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Alexander Ray Neil Zachariah
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Rethinking the local–international dichotomy in relation for refugee protection and assistance: the politics of practice in managing South Sudanese displacement
REFNo: SS222ES

This research is being carried out as part of the researcher's PhD in International Development at SOAS, University of London. The central academic objective it to understand the governance system for refugee protection and assistance in relation to South Sudanese displacement in Kenya and Uganda. This research is focusing on the interactions between actors as well as how policy-making and decision-making is conducted. In doing so this research intends to rethink and rectify how notions of interaction between the ‘local’ and the ‘international’ are conceptualised and operationalised by refugee protection and assistance regime actors through utilising an approach known as the ‘politics of practice’: the micro- and macro-scale interactions, routines, and strategies exhibited by and between actors which collectively constitute a governance regime.
UK 2018-08-24 2021-08-24 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Megan Lang
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The Economics of Women Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Street Business School in Uganda
REFNo: SS223ES

The goal of the proposed study is to answer the questions, “Does a holistic entrepreneurship program lead to increases in income for women?” and "Does allowing women to select into one-on-one mentoring rather than mandating it for all women alter program outcomes?" In addition, we propose to measure intergenerational spillovers of SBS, as we believe that being closely related to a woman participating in the program may translate into attitudinal and behavioral changes for children that go beyond income effects. We are interested in the following questions relating to intergenerational spillovers: (1) Do current educational and employment opportunities change for children closely connected to SBS women? (2) Do future educational and employment goals change for children closely connected to SBS women? (3) Do children’s social networks change to include more women affiliated with SBS? (4) Are these effects attributable solely to increases in income? (5) Are these effects heterogenous in (i) age of the child at the time of SBS or (ii) gender of the child?
USA 2018-08-24 2021-08-24 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Anna Stadelman Michelle
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Adverse Events during Therapy for Multidrug Resistant (MDR)-TB with and without HIV co-infection in Uganda
REFNo: HS228ES

The general aim of this study is to describe AEs occurring during and after MDR-TB treatment among HIV-infected and uninfected patients, which includes frequency, grade, and duration.
USA 2018-08-22 2021-08-22 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Jannie  Nielsen Oestergaard
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Assessment on Commercial Sexual Exploitation among female minors in high risk areas of Uganda
REFNo: SS216ES

General objective: To assess Commercial Sexual Exploitation among 12-17-year-old female minors in high-risk areas of Uganda. Specific objectives: 1. To determine the magnitude of Commercial Sexual Exploitation among female minors aged 12-17 years in selected high-risk areas of Uganda. 2. To identify factors, contextual processes and cultural and social norms associated with Commercial Sexual Exploitation among female emancipated minors aged 12-17 years in selected high-risk areas of Uganda. 3. To identify general characteristics of the perpetrators in commercial sexual exploitation from the perspective of the female emancipated minors in commercial sexual exploitation, and from relevant key informants. 4. To identify the needs and risk perceptions female emancipated minors have in relation to commercial sexual exploitation and understand how they cope and mitigate with them. 5. To describe the implications commercial sexual exploitation has on the life of the female emancipated minors, from their own perspective and from relevant key informants.
Denmark 2018-08-14 2021-08-14 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Megan Schmidt-Sane Mila
ID: UNCST-2019-R001043
A mixed-method study of health vulnerability and social resilience in Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: SS199ES

Aim 1: Quantify individual patterning of key factors such as alcohol use, gambling, knowledge, attitudes, and practices, perceptions of access to resources, job stability, frequency of arrest, bar group membership, economic dependence on FSW, and risky sexual behavior in men’s quotidian lives, through the use of survey methods and regression analysis. Aim 2: Identify pathways from men’s risk to resilience and/or vulnerability and examine community-level social organization through in-depth interviews and participant observation with men in sex work communities. Aim 3: Understand the social, political, economic, and legal structures that configure men’s sexual health risk, resilience, and vulnerability, through in-depth interviews and participant observation with men in sex work communities and community service providers.
USA 2018-08-14 2021-08-14 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Riley Ravary
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Governance in Transboundary Protected Areas: Analyzing Community Experiences at Mount Elgon National Park in Uganda
REFNo: SS148ES

The overall objective of this project is to understand the concept of protection by identifying who or what transboundary protected areas protect. (1) The first specific objective is to understand how governance of transboundary protected areas impacts local resources, residents, and resources users. (2) The second specific objective is to determine how protections are enacted in transboundary protected areas. (3) The third specific objective is to assess how persons who work, reside, and move through transboundary conservation areas balance the trade-off between protection and vulnerability.
USA 2018-08-07 2021-08-07 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Ronald Mayanja
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CERVICAL CANCER AND ITS PRECURSORS IN HIV INFECTED YOUNG (BELOW THIRTY YEARS OLD) WOMEN AT MBARARA REGIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL, UGANDA.
REFNo: HS178ES

General Study Objective The main objective of this study is to determine the prevalence and factors associated with cervical cancer and its precursors among HIV infected young (below thirty years old) women at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. Specific Objectives 1. To compare the prevalence, histological types, trends and factors associated with cervical cancer amongst HIV-positive and HIV-negative young (below thirty years old) women attending the colposcopy and cervical pathology clinic of Mbarara regional referral hospital. 2. To determine the prevalence of high grade cervical intraepithelial lesions and associated factors among HIV infected young (below thirty years old) women at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. 3. To determine the factors associated with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia tissue Immunological response among HIV infected young (below thirty years old) women attending the colposcopy and cervical pathology clinic of Mbarara regional referral hospital? 4. To determine the epidemiological and prognostic factors associated with cervical cancer precursors among HIV infected young (below thirty years old) women at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
Uganda 2018-08-07 2021-08-07 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
James Musinguzi
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Evaluating the Efficacy of Institutional Systems in the Management of Wildlife Trade in Uganda
REFNo: SS215ES

To establish the nature of the management of wildlife trade in Uganda 2. To examine the influence of the institutional framework on the management of wildlife trade in Uganda 3. To investigate the influence of the legal framework on the management of wildlife trade in Uganda 4. To examine the moderating effect of management factors on the relationship between the institutional and legal framework and the management of wildlife trade in Uganda.
Uganda 2018-08-07 2021-08-07 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Zuzana Uhde
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Transnational Migration and Challenges for Global Justice: EU–Africa Relations
REFNo: SS217ES

In the project I will study the perspective of Eastern Africa in order to understand the emerging global governance of migration and identify limits of the nation-state defined framework for global justice, which prevails in the social sciences as well as in the UN migration agenda and European migration policy. I will examine how global political economy impacts on Sub-Saharan Africa and to what extent it constitutes factors shaping migration between African countries and trans-continentally. Under the guidance of MISR I intend to learn from the local colleagues about the Eastern African and Ugandan context in order to understand its relation to the international migration regime. The project will connect a macro-structural perspective analysing global interactions with an analysis of international migration regime and its local effects. The innovative theoretical contribution of the project lies in developing a comprehensive framework that connects migration studies to the broader social theory of global interactions. The main objectives of the project are twofold: 1. developing a conceptual framing of migration in the context of global political economy juxtaposing the double approach of borderless for trade and border-restricted for responsibilities and social protection of migrants; 2. analysing emerging global governance of migration with a special assent on Africa–EU relations and the Ugandan context, and identifying key challenges for global justice.
Czech Republic 2018-08-07 2021-08-07 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Jade Siu
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Trade Costs and cross border traders
REFNo: SS226ES

Broad objective: *To understand challenges to cross-border traders’ trading activities Specific objectives: *Understand how cross-border traders’ perspective of the One-Stop-Border-Post *Understand the barriers cross-border traders’ face in their day-to-day trading activities
UK 2018-08-07 2021-08-07 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
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