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Pauline Waititu
ID: UNCST-2026-R026865
African Lived Values and Child Safeguarding: Exploring Indigenous African Cultural Practices that Promote the Safeguarding of Children with Disabilities in East Africa (MAKSHSREC-2026-275).
REFNo: SS6302ES

• Identifying African lived cultural values that can be used to promote safeguarding of children.
• Examining community attitudes and beliefs regarding disability in relation to international laws of safeguarding.
• Establishing the relationship between Ubuntu lived values and the level of attitude toward students with disabilities.
• Developing a student safeguarding framework that links Ubuntu values with legal child protection framework in Eastern Africa.

Kenya 2026-10-26 17:10:51 2029-10-26 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Mbwali Fiona
ID: UNCST-2025-R020211
Exploring Factors influencing cervical cancer screening among female sex workers in Makindye Ssabagabo Municipality Wakiso District, Uganda
REFNo: HS7895ES

1. To assess the perceptions of CaCx among FSWs in Makindye Ssabagabo Municipality in Wakiso District, Uganda. 2. To identify enablers of CaCx screening among FSWs in Makindye Ssabagabo Municipality in Wakiso District, Uganda. 3. To study the barriers of CaCx screening among FSWs in Makindye Ssabagabo Municipality in Wakiso District, Uganda.
Uganda 2026-10-26 17:06:15 2029-10-26 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Allen Namagembe Sekitoleko
ID: UNCST-2019-R000214
A pilot evaluation of FP Mentor AI-delivered versus instructor-delivered theoretical training for DMPA-SC and self-injection service delivery in private-sector pharmacies in Uganda: adoption, acceptability, usability, and cost.
REFNo: HS8724ES

4. To identify technical, workflow, and contextual barriers and facilitators to FP Mentor AI engagement, in order to inform tool refinement and future scale-up.,3. To estimate the incremental costs of FP Mentor AI theory delivery relative to instructor-led theory delivery, and assess its potential cost advantages, given that hands-on practicum and post-training supervision are provided identically in both study arms.,2. To evaluate the effect of AI-delivered versus instructor-delivered theoretical training on providers\' knowledge of DMPA-SC and self-injection (SI) training.,1. To assess the adoption, acceptability, and usability of FP Mentor AI as a modality for DMPA-SC/self-injection (SI) theoretical training among private-sector pharmacy providers, including patterns of use, user engagement, perceived usefulness, and ease of use.,
Uganda 2026-10-26 17:03:59 2029-10-26 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Boaz Arinda
ID: UNCST-2026-R026773
Diagnosis Urban and Semi-urban Drivers of Diurnal PM2.5 variability in a tropical secondary city: Evidence from Mbarara, Uganda
REFNo: NS1423ES

1. To validate and compare ERA5 and MERRA-2 global reanalysis meteorological data
using ground-based observations from Mbarara City;
2. To quantify the influence of meteorological conditions, temporal patterns, and urban
semi-urban location on diurnal PM?.? concentrations;
3. To diagnose the dominant physical processes and emission-timing drivers that control
extreme PM?.? episodes in urban and semi-urban settings;
Uganda 2026-10-26 16:46:10 2029-10-26 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
JONATHAN SSEBUGGWAWO
ID:
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF REMOVED ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANTS USED FOR TREATING PATIENTS AND BODY RESPONSES AT MULAGO NATIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL;
REFNo: HS8803ES

1. To analyze the indications and timing of implant removal among trauma patients at Mulago National Specialized Hospital. 2. To analyze the elemental chemical composition of explanted orthopaedic implants among trauma patients at Mulago National Specialized Hospital in Uganda 3. To describe the peri-implant histopathological patterns among trauma patients with orthopaedic implants at Mulago National Specialized Hospital. 4. To determine serum levels of selected metal ions before implant removal and assess short term changes 30 days after implant removal among trauma patients with orthopaedic implants at Mulago National Specialized Hospital
Uganda 2026-10-26 13:22:46 2029-10-26 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Kathy Burgoine
ID: UNCST-2022-R011521
Improving Survival and Development of Small and Sick Newborns in Eastern Uganda: A Mixed-Methods Health Systems Evaluation of Hospital and Outreach Interventions
REFNo: HS8938ES

To assess sustainability and scalability of the integrated neonatal care model within the Ugandan health system,To explore caregiver and healthcare worker experiences, acceptability, and perceived barriers and facilitators to implementation of neonatal interventions,To evaluate changes in health system capacity, including workforce skills, infrastructure, equipment functionality, and referral systems,To assess growth and neurodevelopmental outcomes among high-risk infants enrolled in follow-up and early intervention programmes,To determine coverage, outcomes, and feasibility of the Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) screening and treatment programme,To evaluate the effectiveness of outreach neonatal services (BabyBus) in improving access to high-risk infant follow-up, early intervention services, and specialised neonatal care in District Hospitals and Health Centre IV facilities,To assess trends in neonatal mortality, morbidity, and service utilisation at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital following implementation of neonatal care strengthening interventions,To conduct a system evaluation of the impact, implementation, and sustainability of integrated neonatal health system strengthening interventions led by Born on the Edge, on survival and developmental outcomes among small and sick newborns in Eastern Uganda,
UK 2026-10-26 13:12:59 2029-10-26 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Julian Bagyendera Kobutungi
ID:
Uganda Commercial Forestry Value Chain Study
REFNo: SS6248ES

8. To recommend practical interventions, priority supply models, partners and pilots to improve market functioning, grower returns, replanting investment and long-term sector sustainability.,7. To identify bottlenecks affecting market efficiency and supply-chain coordination and assess their implications for grower outcomes and long-term supply security.,6. To identify the commercial conditions required for each supply model to operate sustainably.,5. To analyse prices, costs and margins across the forestry value chain and supply models, including the drivers of farm-gate and factory-gate price differentials.,4. To compare direct processor sourcing, intermediary-led supply, collective marketing or grower-association aggregation, integrated plantation supply and hybrid supply models.,3. To assess how access to improved planting material affects plantation productivity, grower returns and replanting decisions.,2. To assess the formality and effectiveness of transactions between growers, intermediaries and processors.,1. To assess replanting incentives, constraints, decision drivers and long-term investment behaviour across different grower typologies.,The overall objective is to determine which processor-anchored roundwood supply models are commercially viable, scalable and capable of improving grower returns, replanting incentives and long-term supply security.,
Uganda 2026-10-21 23:31:18 2029-10-21 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
FIONA KABAGENYI
ID:
Enhancing emergency ENT clinical competency during residency training at two public universities in Uganda using simulation-based learning: A co-designed intervention, effectiveness and acceptability
REFNo: HS8663ES

1. To determine the burden of emergency ENT procedures conducted among patients at public regional and national referral hospitals. 2. To explore the perceptions of key stakeholders regarding relevance, value and perceived role of SBL in emergency ENT care at Mak and MUST. 3. To co-design a contextually appropriate simulation-based learning intervention in Emergency ENT for postgraduates. 4. To evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effect of the simulation-based learning intervention on the acquisition of knowledge, technical and non-technical competency among post-graduate students in managing emergency ENT cases. 5. To explore the acceptability of an SBL intervention among post-graduate students and faculty members at Mak and MUST.
Uganda 2026-10-21 23:28:43 2029-10-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Nnyanzi  Mabingo Vicent
ID: UNCST-2026-R023442
Slavery and Land use types in Buganda, 1832-1964
REFNo: SS6301ES

The study will be guided by four specific objectives: 1.To examine the indigenous land use types in Buganda. 2.To examine the enslavement systems that existed in pre-colonial Buganda. 3.To analyse how slavery transformed agriculture and settlement in Buganda. 4.To assess how the abolition of slavery influenced agriculture and settlement in Buganda.
Uganda 2026-10-21 23:26:11 2029-10-21 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
KEKIRUNGA BEYENDEZAPERUTH
ID: UNCST-2026-R026880
ECOCRITICAL EXPLORATIONS IN TIMOTHY WANGUSA’S POETRY
REFNo: SS6257ES

i. To examine the representation of human-nature relationships in Wangusa’s poetry through an ecocritical lens. ii. To analyze the poetic devices used to represent human-nature relationships in conveying ecological consciousness. iii. To analyze how ecocriticism of Wangusa’s poetry enhances the understanding of literature as a medium for ecological insight and environmental consciousness.
Uganda 2026-10-21 23:22:44 2029-10-21 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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