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Ezra Rwakazooba Aliija
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Understanding Financial Access in the Mid channel players in Agricultural Value Chains in Arabica coffee and soybean in Eastern, Western and Northern Uganda.
REFNo: SS1803ES

Disaggregating these statistics by the following categories: (a) gender and (b) type of mid channel actor (i.e. traders, transporters, processors, aggregators, wholesalers, etc.),The study is intended to develop value chain-level representative statistics among different mid channel actors (i.e. aggregators, traders, processors, wholesalers) related to the proportion of actors with access to formal, informal, or adequate financial services, the proportion actors already using digital products (i.e. mobile money, digital payment systems, etc.) to facilitate financial transactions and what unmet financial needs exist that may be addressed by digital financial services. ,
Uganda 2023-06-20 17:20:35 2026-06-20 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Heidi Thorsdalen Høghaug
ID: UNCST-2022-R011550
Am I too dirty to touch my baby? Providers’ and users’ perceptions of a hand hygiene intervention in the neonatal period: A Qualitative study in Eastern Uganda
REFNo: HS2240ES

Objectives:

Main Objective

1. Explore the health workers’ and household members’ perceptions of the BabyGel intervention.
Specific Objectives

1. Explore how the ABHR intervention was perceived by adult household members; what aspects of the intervention as indcated were seen as barriers and facilitating during the 3 months follow-up.
2. Inquire the health workers’ experiences providing the BabyGel training, and aspects of the training and intervention as a whole that they perceived as helping or hindering good ABHR use in households, and its scalability.
Norway 2023-06-20 12:22:35 2026-06-20 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Lydia Nakiyingi
ID: UNCST-2022-R010102
Computer-aided point-of-care ultrasound for TB active case finding (POCUS-TB)
REFNo: HS2518ES

The overall goal of this study is to develop an integrated point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)-based computer-aided decision support system that will meet or exceed the minimum target performance criteria of a triage test for pulmonary TB.

Primary objectives:

1. Generate a high-quality annotated POCUS dataset and optimized POCUS scanning protocol for TB screening across the spectrum of early to advanced infection.
2. Develop a computer decision support algorithm for POCUS-based detection of TB with the integration of clinical and epidemiologic TB risk variables.

Uganda 2023-06-20 12:19:28 2026-06-20 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Francispillai Erin
ID:
Assessing freshwater fish response to deforestation-induced warming
REFNo: NS564ES

The broad goal of this project is to understand the effects of deforestation on freshwater fishes. The project will specifically explore the effects of deforestation on the behaviour, ecophysiology, and morphology of fishes by comparing populations of a cyprinid fish that occur both on forested and deforested streams.
Canada 2023-06-20 12:16:12 2026-06-20 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Catherine Kiwuka
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GENETIC, PHENOTYPIC AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF LIBERICA COFFEE
REFNo: A294ES

1) To understand the genetic diversity of Liberica coffee (across its natural range and in cultivation), and its correspondence to physical features (morphology), chemistry (data already available) and sensory characteristics (some data already available).
2) Elucidate patterns of genetic diversity across cultivated and wild C. liberica in Uganda.
3) Place cultivated Ugandan genotypes within a country-wide and African-wide perspective. In particular we will focus on the origin of farmed Liberica in Uganda: to ascertain whether they are from an indigenous source (i.e. one of the two forest locations in Uganda where this species has been recorded), or not. Farmers in Uganda say that this coffee travelled with previous generations from the forest. National and regional identity will be an asset for the marketing and development of Liberica-excelsa (kisansa coffee).
4) Propose a new, and much-needed, intraspecific classification for C. liberica.

Uganda 2023-06-20 12:09:34 2026-06-20 Agricultural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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