Johannes Haushofer
ID: UNCST-2021-R012087
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Well-being and Experience of Ugandan Students.
REFNo: SS1184ES
To determine the medium-term effects of the Malengo program on the students who attend in terms of labor market outcomes, job choice, income, and country of residence and the effect on their psychological well-being (e.g. homesickness, life satisfaction)
To establish How the demand for ISAs compare to demand for student loans
What are the immediate and medium-term effects of the program on the families of selected students, e.g. in terms of remittances received, psychological well-being (e.g. pride, but also missing a child), aspirations, and/or disappointment of siblings? What are the effects on the home communities of the students, e.g. in terms of aspirations and/or disappointment of friends and neighbors?
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Germany |
2022-02-21 |
2025-02-21 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi
ID: UNCST-2021-R002777
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Strengthening Women Smallholders’ Resilience to Agricultural Shocks for Enhanced Income Diversification and Empowerment in Uganda
REFNo: A179ES
• Document the characteristics and intensity of agricultural shocks experienced by rural women smallholder farmers in Uganda
• Examine smallholder women farmers’ ability to manage the risks associated with agricultural shocks.
• Design a mix of interventions and explore their complementarities in relation to enhancing women’s financial and agricultural resilience through the provision of good quality seed, fertilizer, improved agroeconomic practices, training and weather-based index insurance.
• Test which intervention mix will contribute to strengthening women’s capacity to adopt more resilient and dynamic farming systems and enhance their income/livelihood diversification.
• Engage rural men and community members to challenge the discriminatory social and gender norms that are against women’s economic autonomy
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Uganda |
2022-02-17 |
2025-02-17 |
Agricultural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Eddy Walakira Joshua
ID: UNCST-2022-R009077
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Payments in Primary and secondary schools implementing universal education programme in Uganda: Forms, effects and Accountability
REFNo: SS1164ES
The objective of the study is to enhance the evidence base on fees payments in primary and secondary schools implementing free education programmes to support the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) in making evidence-based decisions to streamline, standardise and regulate user fees in the country.
Specific objectives:
(i) Establish the nature and extent of fees payments in schools implementing UPE and USE programmes in Uganda.
(ii) Examine the determination, collection, utilisation and accountability arrangements of the fees collected in public primary and secondary schools in Uganda.
(iii) Determine the willingness of parents/caregivers to pay for public primary and secondary schooling in Uganda
(iv) Analyse how fees payment effects the education prospects of various categories of vulnerable children in Uganda
(v) Provide the MoES with recommendations for revising the UPE and USE financing frameworks, based on the findings of the primary research and analysis of the policy framework for education financing in Uganda.
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Uganda |
2022-02-15 |
2025-02-15 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Caroline Asekenye
ID:
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Consumption, Phytochemical evaluation and Hypoglycemic effect of frequently eaten vegetables in Ankole and Teso sub-regions of Uganda.
REFNo: HS1840ES
i.To document the most frequently eaten vegetables and household prevalence of hyperglycemia in Ankole and Teso sub-regions of Uganda.
ii. To establish the phytochemical composition of selected most frequently eaten vegetables in relation to soil properties from the two regions
iii. To determine the hypoglycemic effect of crude extracts of the most frequently eaten vegetables per study region
iv. To determine the hypoglycemic phytochemical fractions from the most potent vegetable crude extract
v. To estimate the effective amount of the most active vegetables for prevention and management of hyperglycemia based on the animal (rat) model.
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Uganda |
2022-02-15 |
2025-02-15 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Francis Emojong Emukule
ID:
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COVID-19 DISRUPTION OF THE NEWS PRODUCTION PROCESSES – A CASE STUDY OF NEW VISION IN UGANDA
REFNo: SS1154ES
To establish how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the processes of news production at New Vision
Establish the measures media houses took to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 disruptions in news production
To describe the challenges faced by journalists during the pandemic as they carried out their work.
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Uganda |
2022-02-15 |
2025-02-15 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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