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Joseph Greenbaum
ID: UNCST-2024-R004974
Electronic Waste Recycling and Environmental Policy in East Africa
REFNo: SS3908ES

Many cities across the global south are rapidly urbanizing and confronting increasing levels of wastes. This poses a challenge for cities’ infrastructural capacity. This project asks how cities and states adapt to rapid population growth and the byproducts of growing industrial sectors, and the wastes these growing forces bring. Batteries and consumer electronics are ubiquitous in daily life, yet the fate of these products once they reach the end of their lives remains understudied. This study seeks to understand how city and state governments make decisions on how to recycle these electronic wastes, how governments work with private sector actors to engineer recycling infrastructures, and where environmental externalities from the increased volumes of electronic wastes end up. This study examines state and city policy surrounding recycling and environmental protection, as well as metal recycler’s strategies for recycling electronic wastes in Kampala, Uganda. One objective of the study is to understand how governments and private recyclers separate electronic wastes from the general overall waste stream. Futhermore, the study seeks to understand different models for recycling electronic wastes once these wastes have been separated.
USA 2025-05-16 9:02:06 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
KYOGABIRWE ROSSETTE
ID: UNCST-2024-R016174
Elderly Care, Resilience, and Psychological Well-being among Elderly Nuns in the Mbarara Archdiocese, Western.
REFNo: SS3747ES

1. To assess the suitability of the infrastructural and material facilities available to elderly nuns in the Archdiocese of Mbarara.
2. To examine the healthcare services provided to elderly nuns.
3. To evaluate the link between social care and psychological well-being.
4. To explore the extent to which spiritual care sustains resilience among elderly nuns.

Uganda 2025-05-16 10:31:49 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Deborah Manyiraho
ID: UNCST-2024-R016325
Enhancing Education Service Quality through the Deans’ Managerial Competencies amidst Organizational Politics in Ugandan Public Universities
REFNo: SS3735ES

1. To assess the extent to which the study variables exist in the faculties of education in public universities in Uganda.
2. To establish the influence of deans managerial competencies on level of service quality in faculties of education.
3. To establish the moderation effect of organizational politics on the relationship between the dean’s managerial competencies and service quality.
4. To examine the challenges faced by faculty deans in enhancing education service quality amidst organizational politics.

Uganda 2025-05-16 10:30:11 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Sarah Nambowa
ID: UNCST-2024-R002219
EXPERIENCES, SUPPORT NEEDED, CO-DESIGNING AND PILOT TESTING A CAREGIVER SUPPORT GUIDE FOR REDUCING BURDEN AMONG CAREGIVERS OF CHILDREN WITH EPILEPSY IN ISINGIRO DISTRICT, SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA
REFNo: HS5729ES

1.To explore the experiences and support needed to reduce caregiver burden among caregivers of children with epilepsy in Isingiro district, southwestern Uganda.
2.To co-design a caregiver support guide for reducing caregiver burden among caregivers of children with epilepsy in Isingiro district, southwestern Uganda
3.To pilot-test a caregiver support guide among caregivers for children with epilepsy in Isingiro district, southwestern Uganda.

Uganda 2025-05-16 10:28:56 2028-05-16 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Sam Ejibua Anguzu
ID: UNCST-2024-R001968
Scaling Refugee Teacher National Inclusion Models for Enhanced Agency and Well-being (resubmitted)
REFNo: SS3760ES

The overall objective of this research is to generate and mobilise evidence about how to effectively scale national, regional and global models of national inclusion of refugee teachers in such a way that they enhance refugee teachers’ agency and well-being. The additional specific objectives are to: 1. Generate knowledge about how models of refugee teacher inclusion can be sustainably and cost-effectively scaled in a way that maximises refugee teachers’ agency and well-being and promotes gender equality and inclusion in Chad, Uganda and Zambia. 2. Strengthen the capacity of school leaders, and provincial and national ministries of education stakeholders to prioritise refugee teacher agency and well-being when implementing national refugee teacher inclusion policies and programmes. 3. Mobilise evidence (through the study outputs) focused on how to integrate refugee teachers in a way that prioritises enhancing refugee teacher agency and well-being as well as gender equality and inclusion, particularly in the lead-up to and during the next Global Refugee Forum in 2027
Uganda 2025-05-16 10:27:07 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
GODFREY MAKOHA
ID: UNCST-2025-R017345
Exploring home-brewed alcohol production among South Sudanese refugees and surrounding host communities in Bidibidi: A livelihoods perspective
REFNo: SS3723ES

To explore the socioeconomic and public health implications of home-brewed alcohol production among refugees and the surrounding host communities in the Bidibidi refugee settlement in northern Uganda.
To document the experiences of home-brewed alcohol production among South Sudanese refugees and host communities living in the Bidibidi refugee settlement.

To explore mechanisms of addressing home-brewed alcohol production and its associated impact among refugee communities in Bidibidi while protecting producers' livelihood needs.

Uganda 2025-05-16 10:26:09 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Sarah Ivory Jean
ID: UNCST-2025-R017174
Evaluating tree planting strategies for effective community erosion control in R. Nyamwamba catchment near Mt Rwenzori, Uganda
REFNo: NS937ES

In this project, we seek to evaluate different community tree planting strategies for success with respect to their social and physical benefits. To do this, we will make biological and physical observations of current and prior tree planting sites.
USA 2025-05-16 10:23:53 2028-05-16 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
James Byarugaba
ID: UNCST-2024-R004225
Family Caregivers’ Experiences of Caring for Virally Non-Suppressed HIV Positive Adolescents in Uganda
REFNo: SS3778ES

The purpose of this qualitative basic study is to explore how HIV positive family caregivers describe supporting HIV-positive, virally nonsuppressed adolescents in the Lango and Acholi subregion in Uganda
Uganda 2025-05-16 10:22:27 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Damasco OKETTAYOT
ID: UNCST-2024-R002113
School-based Curriculum Practice and Implementation of Integrated Environmental Education in Secondary Schools in Gulu City
REFNo: SS3679ES

1. To assess the level of EE knowledge of secondary school teachers in Gulu City.
2. To assess teachers’ perceptions of the integration of EE into the secondary education curriculum.
3. To establish curriculum practice adopted in teaching EE in secondary schools.
4. To determine the association between curriculum practice and teachers’ EE knowledge.

Uganda 2025-05-16 10:00:38 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Caroline Berry
ID: UNCST-2025-R017515
The role of emotional feedback in the acquisition of culture and the transmission of knowledge in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
REFNo: NS965ES

Overall goal - Tackle the impact of affective processes, particularly emotions, in the acquisition of cultural knowledge in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Ultimately, as part of a joint research, decipher the evolutionary roots of how human cultures developed to such a different extent compared to our closest relatives.

Objectives:
- Investigate longitudinally how young chimpanzees acquire knowledge in their first years of life about the environment or their social group through the emotional reactions of their closest kin (their mother).
- Investigate the material side of cultural knowledge transmission: experimentally assess the possibility of measuring the influence of emotional reactions in the mother on the exploration of novel stimuli in young chimpanzees and how this impacts their knowledge acquisition.

France 2025-05-14 9:57:19 2028-05-14 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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