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Moses KIRYA Mateeke
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Relationships among Core Competencies, Career Choices and Relevant influential factors based on final year Undergraduate Business Student’s Perceptions in Ugandan universities.
REFNo: SS1566ES

To empirically investigate the relationship among core competencies, career choices and relevant influential factors based on final undergraduate business student’s perception in Ugandan universities, Specifically, to explore:

1. The relationship among core competencies and career choices based on final year undergraduate business students’ perception in Uganda

2.The relevant influential factors on career choices and core competencies based on final year undergraduate business students’ perception in Uganda
Uganda 2023-02-21 13:01:29 2026-02-21 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Jacqueline Delie Slabe
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Exploring the social-political contexts of wildlife conservation in Queen Elizabeth and Kibale National Parks in Uganda
REFNo: SS1479ES

1. Understand which socio-political factors affect community-ranger relations in Queen Elizabeth and Kibale National Parks, Uganda.

2. Identify the similarities and differences between communities and park rangers in their perceptions of socio-political factors, and their potential relevance to mitigating human-wildlife conflicts and strengthening conservation of both wildlife and culture.

3. Highlight the important insights that arise in characterizing gendered similarities and differences in the way communities and park rangers value the local protected area.
USA 2023-02-21 13:00:12 2026-02-21 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Roy Mayega William
ID: UNCST-2022-R010983
Uganda Non-State Schools Assessment
REFNo: HS2516ES

4. To assess the capacity of non-state pre-primary and primary schools to sustainably finance quality education.,3. To explore the oversight and regulation functions among non-state pre-primary and primary schools.,2. To understand the barriers faced by learners from traditionally marginalized groups in accessing non-state pre-primary and primary schools in urban and peri-urban centers. ,1. To determine the quality of education in non-state pre-primary and primary schools in urban and peri-urban areas of Uganda, especially in light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic.,To determine the factors that influence the quality and level of access to non-state primary and pre-primary schools in urban and peri-urban areas of Uganda. ,
Uganda 2023-02-21 12:53:41 2026-02-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Bruce Kirenga J
ID: UNCST-2019-R001460
THE SECOND UGANDA NATIONAL ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS DRUGS RESISTANCE SURVEY(DRS2)
REFNo: HS2652ES

To identify the demographic and clinical factors associated with drug resistance in Uganda including HIV, tobacco smoking, diabetes and alcoholism.,To determine circulating strains of MTB in the general population among PBCs in Uganda.,To determine the prevalence of resistance mutations to all first- and second-line drugs in use in Uganda.,To determine the prevalence and patterns of drug resistance to fluoroquinolones, Bedaquiline, Delamanid, clofazimine, amikacin, and Linezolid among patients with confirmed RR-TB in Uganda.,To determine the prevalence of resistance to HRZE among new and previously treated PBC patients in Uganda.,To measure the prevalence of RR-TB among bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB (PBC) patients in Uganda. ,
Uganda 2023-02-20 13:22:01 2026-02-20 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Wietse Tol
ID: UNCST-2021-R013085
AlCohol use in HumanitariAN settings: a programme of work to address alcohol use disorders and associated adversities among conflict-affected populations in UGanda and UkrainE (CHANGE)
REFNo: SS1596ES

• To identify strategies and techniques from evidence-based alcohol use therapies which can be integrated into PM+, and to develop a new intervention called PM+A (Problem Management Plus Alcohol)
• To adapt PM+A to local circumstances, and to examine the feasibility, acceptability, perceived effectiveness, and preliminary impact of PM+A
• To evaluate effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of PM+A through two single-blind randomised controlled trials in Uganda and Ukraine
• To explore the process of implementation, and to identify, characterise and explain mechanisms that promote or inhibit the delivery and take-up of PM+A in both settings
• To examine the potential for scaling-up PM+A in Uganda and Ukraine

Netherlands 2023-02-17 12:18:30 2026-02-17 Social Science and Humanities Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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