Fanny Fauli Laessoee
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Agrarian Change – How traditional agricultural knowledge and narratives of the future influence agricultural adaptation to climate change amongst smallholders in Acholiland, Northern Uganda
REFNo: A383ES
3. To explore how narratives of the future influence changing agricultural practices,
2. To examine the role of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge in agrarian change,
1. To identify how small-scale farming practices have changed over time
Overall research objective:
How are traditional agricultural knowledge and Narratives of the future influencing agricultural adaptation to climate change amongst smallholders in Acholiland, Northern Uganda? ,
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Denmark |
2024-01-25 18:13:00 |
2027-01-25 |
Agricultural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Amalie Andersen
ID: UNCST-2024-R004248
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Fueling Frictions: entangled human and environmental health transformations through charcoal modalities in Northern Uganda
REFNo: SS3381ES
To understand experiences with health consequences of charcoal and how these are viewed, understood and navigated locally in everyday lives and in relation to mundane everyday concerns.,• To communicate people’s experiences with charcoal modalities through film.,
To understand meaning-making and governance with and of trees in relation to health, economies and cooking practices from a local perspective.,
To produce insights that can inform solutions directed towards environmental degradation and climate change that are more compatible with the complex dynamics of charcoal and its role in local livelihoods instead of being formulated from above.
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Denmark |
2024-11-08 8:35:34 |
2027-11-08 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Anne Mette Kjaer
ID: UNCST-2024-R015303
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The Political Economy of Local Food System Governance: Impacts on climate -Vulnerable communities in Lake Victoria Border Region
REFNo: SS3899ES
1. Understanding and mapping national food governance ie policy initiatives, decisions and processes affecting food and livelihood security of climate-vulnerable communities in lake Victoria border region (WP1)
2. Understanding the implementation processes of these food system policies and decision with a focus on the effect of local government autonomy and capacity to address the food and livelihood of climate-vulnerable communities, and the nature of state-community encouters in these processes (WP2)
3. Understanding the lived experiences of food and livelihood security among the climate-vulnerable communities in Lake Victoria region, the perceptions they have of local and national food system policies, and the role these communities play in food system governance
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Denmark |
2025-06-20 8:43:55 |
2028-06-20 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Kirsten Nielsen Milo Tromborg
ID: UNCST-2025-R019351
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Vital waste: A case study of informal waste management, urban infrastructure, and future-making in Gulu
REFNo: SS4342ES
The aim of the proposed research is to create new empirical insights into municipal and citizen-led waste management in Africa using ethnographic research methods. The proposed project also intends to break new theoretical ground by putting the empirical findings into conversation with existing literature on waste, infrastructure, and urbanity.
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Denmark |
2025-11-13 16:50:31 |
2028-11-13 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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BAPOLISI ACHILLE MWIRA
ID:
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Post-traumatic stress disorder, psychiatric comorbidities and associated factors among refugees in Nakivale Camp in south Western Uganda.
REFNo: HS53ES
General objective
• To asses psychiatric comorbidities with PTSD among refugees in Nakivale Camp.
Specific Objectives
•To determine the prevalence of PTSD, anxiety disorder, depression and substance use disorders among refugees in Nakivale Camp.
•To determine the psychosocial stressors associated with PTSD, anxiety disorder, depression and substance use disorders among refugees.
•To compare the prevalence of anxiety disorder, depression and substance use disorders among refugees with and without PTSD in Nakivale Camp.
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Democratic Republic of Congo |
2017-05-17 |
2020-05-17 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Mushagalusa Kasali Félicien Kasali
ID:
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Phytochemical and Pharmacological Study of Chenopodium ambrosioides L. and Physalis peruviana L., herbs used to treat diabetes in Congolese Traditional Medicine
REFNo: HS440ES
1. To test the activity of the bioguided fractions of the extracts obtained in-vivo, on acute, sub-acute and chronic hyperglycemia in experimental rats.
2. To determine the zootechnical, biochemical and histopathological markers of the extracts obtained in experimental rats.
3. To isolate and elucidate the structure of the bioactive components of the extracts obtained.
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Democratic Republic of Congo |
2019-08-27 |
2022-08-27 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Herve Monka Lekuya Monka
ID:
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Depressed Skull fractures: Timing of surgery, systemic inflammatory response, intraoperative blood loss, surgical site infection, and post-traumatic seizures - (DESTINE study)
REFNo: HS1284ES
5) To compare the risk of developing a delayed PTE up to 6 months of postoperative period between early and delayed surgery of DSFs ,4) To compare the risk of SSI within 3 months of postoperative period between early and delayed surgery of DSFs ,3) To compare the volume of intraoperative blood loss during the elevation of the DSFs between early and delayed surgery ,2) To compare the changes of serum levels of inflammatory cytokines among TBI patients regarding the timing of the elevation of DSFs ,1) To describe the epidemiology, clinical and radiological presentations of patients with DSFs ,This study aims to determine whether the timing of surgery of DSFs has a relationship with the changes of the biological markers of SIR, the risk of excessive intraoperative blood loss, the occurrence of SSI, and the incidence of PTE; this could optimize the clinical management of patients with head trauma in LMIC settings.,
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Democratic Republic of Congo |
2021-03-17 |
2024-03-17 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Jessica Kakesa
ID:
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Barriers and opportunities to safe abortion in humanitarian settings in Bidibidi Settlement, Uganda
REFNo: HS2130ES
The aim of this study is to describe the abortion experiences of women and girls living in humanitarian contexts, and to generate a representative estimate of the abortion incidence, rate, and ratio.
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Democratic Republic of Congo |
2022-04-07 |
2025-04-07 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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franck Sikakulya
ID: UNCST-2021-R013687
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Effectiveness of movement and respiratory rate monitoring device in early detection of vital sign deterioration and hospitalisation outcomes among patients admitted at Kitovu Hospital in Central Uganda
REFNo: HS2792ES
To determine the effectiveness of a non-invasive movement and respiratory rate monitoring device in predicting the outcome of medical patients admitted to Kitovu Hospital. To assess the effectiveness of a non-invasive movement and respiratory rate monitoring device in early detection of vital sign deterioration among patients admitted at Kitovu Hospital.
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Democratic Republic of Congo |
2023-05-18 15:45:26 |
2026-05-18 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Bives Mutume Vivalya Nzanzu
ID:
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Factors associated with relapse among patients with severe mental illness in adult patients in southwestern Uganda: a multicenter study
REFNo: HS3009ES
2) To establish the factors associated with relapse in adult patients with severe mental illness at Kampala International University-Teaching Hospital and Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.,1) To determine the prevalence of relapse in adult patients with severe mental illness at Kampala International University-Teaching Hospital and Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.,To determine factors associated with relapse among patients with severe mental illnesses in south western Uganda,
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Democratic Republic of Congo |
2023-10-13 11:03:37 |
2026-10-13 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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KANIKA Jean-Claude MASSAMBA
ID:
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effectiveness of vaginal misoprostol versus vaginal dinoprostone among pregnant women undergoing labor induction at Jinja regional Referral Hospital.
(REC Approval: BSU-REC-2023-244)
REFNo: HS4007ES
To assess the Peripartum fetal complications as well as the maternal obstetrics outcomes in vaginal misoprostol group versus vaginal dinoprostone group at Jinja Referral Regional Teaching-Hospital maternity ward. ,The main goal of this study is to compare the effectiveness of vaginal misoprostol to vaginal dinoprostone and identify the feto-maternal complications in women undergoing labor induction at Jinja Referral Regional Teaching-maternity Hospital\'s unit.,
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Democratic Republic of Congo |
2024-03-28 18:36:47 |
2027-03-28 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Mulemangabo Bisimwa
ID: UNCST-2025-R016823
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The Politics of Sustainable Energy Transition in Refugee Settlements: The case of Uganda
REFNo: SS3865ES
The research aims to examine the interactions between the top-down humanitarian energy system and the bottom-up community led-energy action, and how they shape sustainable energy access for displaced households in camp settings. Specifically, the research will address the following objectives:
1. To explore how the humanitarian system supports renewable energy access for displaced communities.
2. To examine the interrelationships between refugee-led energy initiatives and the international humanitarian agencies.
3. To examine how social interactions between refugee households and other energy stakeholders shape and influence the uptake of energy technologies and services in refugee camps.
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Democratic Republic of Congo |
2025-05-14 10:12:48 |
2028-05-14 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Naomi Nabami
ID: UNCST-2025-R018998
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Women vendors: A history of female commercial activities across the Uganda-Congo border during the 20th century.
REFNo: SS4964ES
The first objective of this project is to contribute to women’s empowerment in the subregion by looking at their historical trajectory. It will also allow for historicizing ICBT between the DRC and Uganda, recentering female agency, and bringing in the Congolese perspective. The project fills in an important blank spot in our historical understanding of the Uganda-Congo border’s economic development by connecting the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial contexts in which this trade took place. By recentering the overlooked role of women as commercial actors throughout the history of ICBT, the project investigates how trade connections evolved in times of war and forced displacement, but also in pre-conflict decades. This will result in a dissertation that focuses on the 20th century to the present.
Here are the specific objectives of the research:
RO1 – Historicizing ICBT between the DRC and Uganda: According to Titeca (2009), informal trade activities between DRC and Uganda must be understood through the lens of a complex history that includes ethnic interconnections and refugee fluxes. Yet they also build on historical relations and exchanges that predate the context of conflict or the Structural Adjustment Programs. The project fills in an important blank spot in our historical understanding of this border’s economic development by connecting the precolonial, colonial and postcolonial contexts in which this trade took place. By recentering the overlooked role of women as commercial actors throughout the history of ICBT, the project investigates how trade connections evolved in times of war and forced displacement, but also in pre-conflict decades. This will result in a dissertation that focuses on the period 1850 to present.
RO2 – Recentering female agency: Public discourse about the border area under study, particularly the Congolese side, often portrays women as mere victims of a conflict-prone context. While sexual violence is indeed used as a weapon of war in this region, with cases dating back to colonial abuses (see Mertens 2023), it is crucial to also pay attention to the ways in which these women have shaped their livelihoods, generated forms of economic autonomy, and evaded male control (see for example Obbo 1980, MacGaffey 1988). Because of its informal character, ICBT generates specific regulatory dynamics, which not only require negotiation with state officials, but also with the broader population (see Titeca 2012). However, we know very little about the ways in which women have navigated this commercial ecosystem. Therefore, their agency is the starting point of this research project (see Thomas 2016). By applying an interdisciplinary approach and using a variety of sources, the project tackles the methodological challenges that have hitherto played a role in the overlooking of Central African female histories.
RO3 – Bringing in the Congolese perspective :Informal export from Uganda to the DRC continues to grow rapidly, with the DRC making up 49,4% of Uganda’s total informal exports in 2018, in comparison to 27,1% in 2010 (Titeca 2020: 3). While this project does not have the ambition to add quantitative data from the Congolese side to the debate, it is innovative in its historical attention to the activities, experiences and livelihoods of Congolese female experiences in this border area. The informality of their activities and the lack of control over mobility was a general source of distress for the colonial government, especially in border areas (see for example Mathys forthcoming). Recent doctoral research by Aurélie Bouvart (2024) even suggests that Congolese women who were brought to court in the Belgian Congo were mostly convicted for “crimes” related to unauthorized mobility. This project, therefore, contributes a critical new perspective by foregrounding the agency of Congolese women and by highlighting the historical continuities in their strategies for navigating both economic and social landscapes across the Congolese-Ugandan border.
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Democratic Republic of Congo |
2026-06-25 22:37:37 |
2029-06-25 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Zuzana Uhde
ID:
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Transnational Migration and Challenges for Global Justice: EU–Africa Relations
REFNo: SS217ES
In the project I will study the perspective of Eastern Africa in order to understand the emerging global governance of migration and identify limits of the nation-state defined framework for global justice, which prevails in the social sciences as well as in the UN migration agenda and European migration policy. I will examine how global political economy impacts on Sub-Saharan Africa and to what extent it constitutes factors shaping migration between African countries and trans-continentally. Under the guidance of MISR I intend to learn from the local colleagues about the Eastern African and Ugandan context in order to understand its relation to the international migration regime.
The project will connect a macro-structural perspective analysing global interactions with an analysis of international migration regime and its local effects. The innovative theoretical contribution of the project lies in developing a comprehensive framework that connects migration studies to the broader social theory of global interactions. The main objectives of the project are twofold:
1. developing a conceptual framing of migration in the context of global political economy juxtaposing the double approach of borderless for trade and border-restricted for responsibilities and social protection of migrants;
2. analysing emerging global governance of migration with a special assent on Africa–EU relations and the Ugandan context, and identifying key challenges for global justice.
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Czech Republic |
2018-08-07 |
2021-08-07 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Josef Bryja
ID:
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Evolutionary diversity of small mammals in isolated mountains in north-eastern Uganda - stepping stones for colonization of the Albertine Rift and Kenyan Highlands from Ethiopia?
REFNo: NS301ES
Overall goal: To analyse genetic diversity of small mammals and their pathogens to test alternative hypotheses of colonization of Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot (EAMBH)
Objective: Description of biodiversity patterns in EAMBH using integrative approach
Output 1: List of small mammals of isolated sky islands of north-eastern Uganda
Activity 1: Field sampling, species identification (using integrative approach)
Output 2: Phylogeographic scenarios for the colonization of EAMBH, identification of "refugia within refugia", biogeographical regionalization
Activity 2: Combination of obtained (genetic) data with other datasets from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, etc. Testing of phylogeographic hypotheses.
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Czech Republic |
2021-10-22 |
2024-10-22 |
Natural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Marie Sabacka
ID:
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Microbial diversity of disappearing tropical glaciers in Uganda
REFNo: NS348ES
Study microbial diversity of disappearing glaciers in Uganda
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Czech Republic |
2022-04-25 |
2025-04-25 |
Natural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Astrid Jenkins Yogi
ID: UNCST-2024-R015681
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The Making of Memory: Tracing the Origins, Development, and Contestation of Post-Colonial Memory Regimes in East Africa
REFNo: SS3936ES
This research investigates the emergence and evolution of post-colonial memory regimes in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, focusing on how these states have navigated the legacy of British colonialism after independence. It explores why states with traumatic colonial histories take divergent approaches to memorialising trauma, and how these memory regimes shape national identity and international relations. By examining the institutional, cultural, and diplomatic dimensions of memory politics—particularly through national curricula, monuments, independence celebrations, and post-colonial foreign policy—the project contributes to International Relations and memory studies by deepening our understanding of how national memory evolves after traumatic historical events. In doing so, it has three primary objectives: first, to make a theoretical contribution by addressing a gap in International Relations (IR) literature on memory politics, which has the tendency to focus on European and East Asian contexts, and thereby neglects an understanding of the development of official memory in the African context; second, to provide empirical insights into how East African states navigated nation-building and the politics of remembrance in the context of ethnic diversity, colonial legacy, and broader systemic pressures; and third, to highlight the utility of moving away from a predominant focus on conflict as the object of study in international relations, which offers limited insight into cases where states undergo a traumatic period, and yet do not develop strong state led nationalist politics surrounding that trauma. The study combines archival research, elite interviews, and discourse analysis. Archival work will be conducted at Makerere University and the National Archives of Uganda, focusing on records related to post-colonial state building, commemorative practices, and UK–Ugandan relations. Interviews will be held with policymakers, civil society actors, academic experts, and individuals with expertise in the independence struggle and memory politics. Ethical considerations remain central to the project. Participation in interviews will be voluntary, with informed consent obtained in writing, or recorded verbally if necessary. Interviewees may withdraw at any time without penalty, and pseudonyms will be used unless express permission is granted. Data will be securely stored and anonymised.
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Cyprus |
2025-07-10 13:31:14 |
2028-07-10 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Daniela Acosta
ID: UNCST-2024-R003832
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Chimpanzee Intercommunity Competition: Measuring Benefits and Costs at the Group Level.
REFNo: NS826ES
I aim to investigate questions related to the causes and consequences of territorial expansion and contraction at the group level due to intergroup competition. Specifically, I am interested in (i) understanding changes in ranging patterns, habitat use, reproductive success, resource availability and social relationships before, during, and after territorial shifts; (ii) examining decision-making processes during patrolling behavior; and (iii) identifying the mechanisms in which sociality influences group level cooperation.
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Colombia |
2024-06-10 8:23:29 |
2027-06-10 |
Natural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Hang ZHOU
ID:
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Bring African Bureaucracies back in: Negotiations and Implementation of Chinese Development Engagement in Uganda
REFNo: SS125ES
This project seeks to take African bureaucracies seriously, an actor that has largely neglected in the existent literature. Taking an empirically grounded approach, this project aims to study the real governance of African bureaucracies and investigating what they actually do without classifying them into pre-determined ideal-typical categories.
More specifically, using China-Uganda development engagement in road construction and agriculture sectors as a case study, this project conceives this development engagement as ‘processes of negotiation, contestation and bricolage’ through which Ugandan bureaucrats together with local, national and Chinese actors seek to articulate their preferred positions and fulfil the mandates of their organisations.
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China |
2017-11-08 |
2020-11-08 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Zhubin Chen
ID:
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The Impact of Social Health Insurance on the Incentives of Health Care Providers in East Africa: A Mixed-methods Approach
REFNo: SS1574ES
1.1 Describe how social health insurance functions and how health care providers respond to the economic incentives of social health insurance in Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda
1.2 Pose hypotheses based on 1.1 and test them empirically using nationally representative data
2. Follow different institutional actors (ministry of health, health facilities, NGOs, and community organizations) and describe how they perceive the function of social health insurance in Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda
3. Compare the impact mechanism of social health insurance in Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda and document how the impact evolves on different paths and at different stages towards UHC
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China |
2023-03-16 13:04:14 |
2026-03-16 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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