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Nelson Muwereza
ID: UNCST-2024-R015793
 Next Generation Surveillance for Tick-Swine Contact In Endemic And Non-Endemic Regions for African Swine Fever Virus
REFNo: NS913ES

1. Determine the vertebrate host community utilized by argasid ticks, competent vectors of ASFV.
2. Quantify serological evidence of swine exposure to soft tick and hard tick bites.

 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:57:02 2028-05-16 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
BERNARD BASHAASHA
ID: UNCST-2024-R002001
 Alternative Pricing within the Value Chain for Coffee Based on the True Costs of Cultivation: Case Study in Uganda
REFNo: A572ES

To assess child labor in Uganda\'s coffee value chain, and the impact of different internalization policies,To estimate the living income for coffee producers in Uganda,To quantify and monetize environmental, health and social externalities in the coffee value chain, and identify potential internalization mechanisms in Uganda,To quantify the environmental, societal, and health-related externalities of coffee production and render them comparable to monetary market values,
 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:55:33 2028-05-16 Agricultural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Pawel Fedurek
ID: UNCST-2025-R016767
 Exploring people’s attitudes towards snare trapping and their familiarity of the anti-poaching laws in Budongo
REFNo: SS3880ES

Using questionnaire and interview-based approaches, the aim of this study is to examine Budongo local communities’: - Knowledge of anti-poaching (hunting) law enforcement - Attitudes towards snare trapping - Awareness about the risks associated with poaching
 Poland 2025-05-16 9:53:56 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Louisa Watson Jayne
ID: UNCST-2025-R017997
 The impact of climate-induced ranging behaviour shifts on gastrointestinal parasite load in Bwindi mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei): implications for health and conservation
REFNo: NS956ES

This project aims to (1) explore the impacts that seasonality and the climate crisis are having on the ranging behaviour of Bwindi mountain gorillas and, as a result, (2) determine the impacts this is having on their health through quantifying their gastrointestinal microbiome parasite load.
 UK 2025-05-16 9:52:17 2028-05-16 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Noeline Atyayi Prossy
ID: UNCST-2024-R002339
 Infrastructural Development in Uganda Colleges of Commerce as a Function of Principals’ Leadership Role Effectiveness
REFNo: SS3749ES

1. To determine the level of leadership role effectiveness among the principals in UCCs.
2. To assess the level of infrastructural development in UCCs.
3. To examine the influence of leadership role effectiveness on infrastructural development in UCCs.
4. To explore the challenges faced by Principals in the course of infrastructural development
in UCCs.
5. To establish strategies for mitigating challenges faced by principals in the course of infrastructural development in UCCs.

 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:38:05 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Janet  Sego Jebichii
ID: UNCST-2024-R015572
 Development or Displacement? Bilateral Development Finance Institutions and development -induced displacements in Sub-Saharan Africa
REFNo: SS3862ES

To analyze, whether or not the DFIs’ home countries are accountable towards the displaced people for human rights violations by their DFIs’ financed projects and possible future strategies,To assess the human rights responsibility and accountability of bilateral DFIs towards the displaced populations in projects that they finance,To analyze the actual application of the DFIs’ policies on involuntary resettlement in development projects in the host countries,To Examine the legal framework on development-induced displacements and the place of DFIs in prevention and protection of internally displaced persons,The main objective of this research is to analyze the legal framework on the duties of the DFIs to prevent involuntary displacement of people or to mitigate the effects of displacement by projects they finance in the developing countries. ,
 Kenya 2025-05-16 9:10:04 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Lino Ika
ID: UNCST-2021-R011810
 Ergonomic safety factors and 3-6 year-old children's readiness to learn in selected Kampala City Nursery schools
REFNo: SS3770ES

The main objective of this study is to assess the effects of ergonomic safety factors on 3-6 year- old children's readiness to learn in selected Kampala City Nursery schools. The specific objectives are as follows: 1. Evaluate the ergonomic safety considerations for 3-6 year-old children’s readiness to learn in selected Kampala City Nursery schools. 2. To examine the effects of the design of furniture on 3-6 year-old children’s readiness to learn in selected Kampala City nursery schools. 3. To analyse the effects of sitting location on 3-6 year-old children’s readiness to learn in selected Kampala city nursery schools. 4. Explore the classroom health related safety factors that influence 3-6 year-old children’s readiness to learn in selected Kampala city nursery schools.
 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:09:01 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
MATTHEW MCLENNAN
ID: UNCST-2023-R005558
 A Genomics Census of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the Greater Budongo-Bugoma Landscape: A Tool to Aid Long-term Monitoring and Conservation of a Critically Threatened Great Ape Population
REFNo: NS957ES

The objective of this 3-year study is to conduct a comprehensive genetics census of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) living in the Greater Budongo-Bugoma Landscape. This critically important great ape population comprises those in the Budongo and Bugoma Central Forest Reserves (CFRs) and the unprotected ‘corridor’ areas surrounding these main forest blocks. Chimpanzees throughout this landscape are highly threatened by ongoing agricultural and infrastructural developments, including those connected to the development of Uganda’s oil industry, with the chimpanzees residing outside protected areas facing greatest impacts. Fieldwork will involve non-invasive collection of faecal samples from all ‘corridor’ chimpanzee groups, with related data collected on ranges and habitat use, in addition to faecal sampling of populations within the main Budongo and Bugoma CFRs. The study will employ state-of-the-art genomics analyses to provide novel baseline data on the size, structure and viability of this critical but highly threatened population of great apes. The study will directly aid long-term population monitoring and inform effective conservation strategies on the ground to help safeguard the chimpanzees inhabiting this fast-developing region of Uganda.
UK 2025-05-16 9:06:39 2028-05-16 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Christopher Baleke
ID: UNCST-2025-R016752
 A Review of Medical Records and Infrastructure Capacity to Inform Prospective Cohort Studies in Maternal and Child Health in Rural Uganda
REFNo: HS5841ES

Primary objectives 1. To review and extract data collected during antenatal care, birth, and postnatal periods at St. Francis Buluba Hospital and Mayuge Health Centre IV, assess the data types and methods of routinely gathered pregnancy-related, including laboratory and pharmacy data. 2. To determine the quality of perinatal data collected at St. Francis Buluba Hospital and Mayuge Health Centre IV with interest in completeness and legibility. 3. To explore the extent to which current records reflect current WHO recommendations in terms of timing of antenatal, postnatal visits and data collected at each visit. 4. To assess the feasibility of linking perinatal health records across antenatal, birth, and postnatal care into a standardised digital data collection format, capturing the standard WHO criteria Secondary Objectives 1. To determine the prevalence and risk factors of adverse perinatal and child-hood outcomes among mothers and children attending at Mayuge Health facilities from 01 January 2023 – 31 December 2024. 2. To assess the capacity and utilization of laboratory and pharmacy services in supporting maternal and child health
Uganda 2025-05-16 9:05:21 2028-05-16 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
SAMUEL JJUNJU
ID: UNCST-2023-R006269
 ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER SCREENING AND REFERRAL PRACTICES AT PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA
REFNo: HS5825ES

Aim 1: Determine the screening and referral rates of patients with suspected ARF at primary healthcare facilities in southwestern Uganda.
Aim 2: Determine the health workers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices to screen and refer patients with suspected ARF.
Aim 3: Evaluate the barriers to screening and referral of patients with suspected ARF at primary healthcare facilities in southwestern Uganda.

 Uganda 2025-05-16 9:04:14 2028-05-16 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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