Alexander Ray Neil Zachariah
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Rethinking the local–international dichotomy in relation for refugee protection and assistance: the politics of practice in managing South Sudanese displacement
REFNo: SS222ES
This research is being carried out as part of the researcher's PhD in International Development at SOAS, University of London. The central academic objective it to understand the governance system for refugee protection and assistance in relation to South Sudanese displacement in Kenya and Uganda. This research is focusing on the interactions between actors as well as how policy-making and decision-making is conducted. In doing so this research intends to rethink and rectify how notions of interaction between the ‘local’ and the ‘international’ are conceptualised and operationalised by refugee protection and assistance regime actors through utilising an approach known as the ‘politics of practice’: the micro- and macro-scale interactions, routines, and strategies exhibited by and between actors which collectively constitute a governance regime.
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UK |
2018-08-24 |
2021-08-24 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Alexandra Sacco
ID:
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Population Health in Endangered Red Colobus Monkeys in Kibale National Park
REFNo: NS336ES
1) Disentangle the impact of various factors on gut microbial community structure of female red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) that live in disturbed and old-growth areas across Kibale National Park, Uganda, and (2) characterize the interactions between gut microbes and female sex hormones over the reproductive cycle.
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USA |
2022-05-06 13:44:47 |
2025-05-06 |
Natural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Alexandra Tomkins Elizabeth
ID:
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Deaf Ways of Knowing
REFNo: SS1733ES
To use and teach co-creative and audiovisual methods, such as film, photography, art, drawing and drama, to better understand the lifeworlds, social needs and future aspirations of deaf Ugandan children,To research the social and educational needs of deaf children in low income countries by developing new deaf centred pedagogical approaches and deaf inclusive learning contexts.
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UK |
2023-06-05 16:52:00 |
2026-06-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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ALEX KAYONGO
ID: UNCST-2019-R001641
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In-vitro Susceptibility of Broncho-alveolar-derived Macrophages to Mycobacterium tuberculosis among persistently IGRA-negative TB household contacts in Uganda
REFNo: HS1767ES
Study Aim:
Phenotypic characterization of persistently IGRA-negative individuals based on in-vitro killing of luciferase-expressing recombinant Mtb in broncho-alveolar lavage.
Specific Objectives
1. To demonstrate in-vitro BAL and blood monocyte derived macrophage killing of luciferase-expressing recombinant Mtb among persistently IGRA-negative individuals.
2. To validate in-vitro BAL-derived macrophage killing assays using virulent Mtb strains identified from “the Ugandan TB cohort.
3. To compare BAL-derived macrophage expression profiles for selected cytokines, phagocytic receptors, phagosome maturation and microbial killing genes between IGRA-negative and positive individuals.
4. To compare levels of selected macrophage cytokines and chemokines in BAL supernatant between IGRA-negative and positive individuals.
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Uganda |
2022-03-03 |
2025-03-03 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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ALEX KAYONGO
ID: UNCST-2019-R001641
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Airway Microbiome and Th17-mediated inflammation in COPD among HIV-infected individuals in a rural Ugandan cohort
ACRONYM: HIV-LUNG MICROBIOME (HLM) study
REFNo: HS2035ES
Study aim:
To investigate airway microbiome-driven Th17 mediated inflammation in COPD among HIV-infected individuals
Specific objectives
1. To establish a relationship between airway microbiome and Th17/Treg cellular phenotypes among HIV-infected individuals with COPD.
2. To investigate bacterial mediated Th17 up-regulation of pro-inflammatory genes among HIV-infected individuals with COPD.
3. To investigate the role of bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) in mediating dysbiosis driven Th17 immune responses among HIV individuals.
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Uganda |
2022-02-10 |
2025-02-10 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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ALEX KAYONGO
ID: UNCST-2019-R001641
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Mechanisms of Immune Resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
REFNo: HS3165ES
Aims: In this study, we will immuno-phenotype airway microbiome signatures as innate, Th1, Th2, Th17, or Treg-inducing using a chronic airway inflammation population. We will then determine the association between airway microbiome, M.tb-specific IFN-gamma responses, and M.tb burden based on GeneXpert status to underpin immune protective microbial signatures. Finally, we will validate identified immune-protective microbial signatures as a proxy for IFN-gamma reactivity and TB immune protection in a separate cohort of persistently QFT-negative individuals compared to household LTBI controls.
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Uganda |
2023-10-13 11:01:43 |
2026-10-13 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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ALEX KAYONGO
ID: UNCST-2019-R001641
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Clonotyping Airway T-cells to Uncover Microbiome-Specific Inflammotypes in HIV-Associated COPD
REFNo: HS6625ES
Study Aim:
To investigate the airway microbiome-specific inflammotypes in COPD among HIV-infected individuals in a rural Uganda.
Specific objectives
1.To determine, in vitro, the CD4+T-cell clonotypic library specific to airway bacterial species associated with COPD among HIV-infected individuals in rural Uganda.
2.To determine, ex vivo, the microbiome-specific clonotypic landscape of BAL-derived CD4+T cells from a cohort of individuals stratified by HIV and COPD in rural Uganda.
3.To validate airway microbiome-specific inflammotypes among individuals with COPD transitioning from stable disease to exacerbation and back to stable disease.
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Uganda |
2025-10-29 12:47:04 |
2028-10-29 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Alex Maxwell
ID:
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'Post-conflict recovery in Gulu (North Ugandan Acholiland): Examining the impact of a decade of ex-combatant re-integration interventions on the coping strategies of communities, their social capital and the state of civil society.'
REFNo: SS243ES
This research aims to explore how viable ways of life are constituted by local communities in the North Ugandan post-conflict scenario. The post-Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) peacebuilding project by the international community in Northern Uganda has resulted in no repeat of violence since the end of the conflict. However, there has been little effort to learn from the Ugandan experience concerning the critical conditions, which enables social repair to become possible following displacement by armed conflict. This research seeks to understand how displacement and return have affected social repair through the perceptions and understandings of the local people concerned. This contrasts with the focus from the perspective of ‘ex-combatants’ in the peacebuilding literature which analyses reintegration interventions. This research focuses on an under researched area: the role of the community in the post-conflict reintegration process. The research uses a case study approach (detailed by Yin, 1989) with a focus on life histories, to examine how local communities in Gulu, often referred to as the ‘recipients’ of international projects, have negotiated reintegration and social repair through their interactions with ex-combatants. Further, the research examines how external intervention has affected the Gulu communities’ own understandings of life after conflict within a ten year period (2008-present).
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UK |
2019-01-15 |
2022-01-15 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Alex Semusu
ID: UNCST-2025-R018018
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CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT POLICIES AND LOAN PERFORMANCE IN THE BANKING SECTOR OF CENTRAL UGANDA
REFNo: SS4123ES
1.4 General Objectives
To investigate the relationship between Credit Risk Management Policies and Loan Performance in the banking sector in Central Uganda.
1.4.1 Specific Objectives
i. To assess the relationship between the Credit Limit policy and Loan Performance in the banking sector of Central Uganda.
ii. To explore how the Credit Collection policy relates to Loan Performance in the banking sector of Central Uganda.
iii. To investigate the relationship between Credit Monitoring policy and Loan Performance in the banking sector of Central Uganda.
iv. To ascertain the influence of government policies on credit risk management policies and loan performance in the banking sector of Central Uganda.
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Uganda |
2025-10-21 9:10:22 |
2028-10-21 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Alfredo Guarino
ID:
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Acute gastroenteritis as a presenting symptom for malaria
REFNo: HS225ES
The aim of the study is to investigate the prevalence of Acute Diarrhea in Children with Malaria in Northern Uganda, a high-transmission malaria setting where there is paucity of data on the etiological agents of childhood diarrhea.
There is a solid scientific basis that could explain the pathogenesis of diarrhea in severe malaria.
The starting point for our working hypotheses is the positive feedback of Ugandan and Italian Doctors who have been working in Lacor Hospital’s Children Ward, whose practical and clinical experience seems to confirm an increased rate of GI symptoms in children with malaria.
There are previous clinical controlled Studies on the subject, however, despite the scientific premises and the clinical observations, these Studies have produced inconsistent and inconclusive results, and eventually failed to demonstrate a statistically significant prevalence of diarrhea in children with malaria. Moreover, setting, study groups and secondary endpoints differ from our Study.
In conclusion and to the best of our knowledge, our Study would be the first to show a statistically significant association between acute diarrhea and malaria. The Study would also be the first to be performed since the introduction of artemisinin-based therapies for the treatment of malaria. Investigating the time of response, and the factors affecting an early (< 24 h) or late resolution (>24h) of diarrhea could provide new extra information on the clinical outcomes of children with GI symptoms during severe malaria treated with IV artesunate and ACTs and provide new prognostic factors on admission.
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Italy |
2019-02-05 |
2022-02-05 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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alfred bulamu
ID: UNCST-2023-R008638
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Uganda Translational Breast Cancer Screening Research Center with Innovations in MRI and Genetic Testing.
REFNo: HS4689ES
Implementation of breast MRI with genetic testing as BC screening method for women at high risk of BC by July 2029 (Phase 6) , Continuous Trainings for radiologists, radiographers and laboratory staffs on the modern technologies of MRI and Genetic testing (phase 3 to phase 6) ,Evaluating the feasibility of screening BC using MRI and genetic testing for high risk women by December 2028 (phase 5),Large scale education of the community about BC by July 2028 (phase 3 and phase 4).,Large scale determination of the utility of genetic testing as a screening modality for BC in Uganda by perform mutational genetic analysis for women at high-risk aged19 years to 80 years by July 2028 (phase 3 and phase 4) , Large scale determination of the utility of quantitative breast MRI for screening women at high risk BC aged 19 years to 80 years by July 2028 (phase 3 and phase 4) ,Training of the users on equipment i.e. Radiologists, Radiographers and laboratory staffs by 2025 (phase 2) ,Securing and installation of lab equipment for genetic testing by 2025 (Phase 2,Securing and installation of MRI with Breast coils by July 2025 (Phase 2),To build capacity for 20 laboratory health care workers in genetic testing technologies by December 2023 (phase 1).,To build capacity for 30 radiology health professionals in modern breast Imaging with MRI by December 2023 (Phase 1),To determine the utility of quantitative breast MRI for screening women at high risk breast cancer aged 19 years to 80 years by July 2024 (phase 1),To determine the utility of genetic testing as a screening modality for BC in Uganda by perform mutational genetic analysis for women at high-risk of BC aged 19 years to 80 years, by July 2024 (phase1),To build a long-lasting infrastructure for research, clinical screening in Uganda and training using modern technologies. ,To offer improved access to Breast Cancer screening in Uganda through quantitative MRI and genetic testing research center,
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Uganda |
2024-08-06 17:27:31 |
2027-08-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Ali Ndiwalana
ID: UNCST-2024-R015333
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Evaluation of UNICEF’s contribution towards addressing equitable access to quality, inclusive education for vulnerable children and adolescents in Uganda 2021-2024
REFNo: SS3478ES
The evaluation that will assess the relevance and effectiveness of UNICEF's contributions towards achieving the goals set for the BEAD
programme under the CPD 2021-2025. The evaluation's findings are expected to guide the design of UNICEF's future learning and skilling programs in Uganda
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Uganda |
2025-01-10 11:56:23 |
2028-01-10 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Alice Emasu
ID: UNCST-2021-R013920
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EXPERIENCES OF LIVING WITH OBSTETRIC FISTULA AMIDST COVID -19
PANDEMIC IN EAST AND CENTRAL UGANDA: Qualitative study.
REFNo: HS1464ES
General Objective
To document the experiences of living with fistula amidst the COVID-19 pandemic among women who developed OF during corona virus pandemic, those who had fistula and had started seeking for care, those who were repaired and were at the stage of reintegration and those declared as incurable between 15-49 years of age from Eastern and Central Uganda
Specific objectives
1) To document participant’s awareness about COVID 19 Pandemic
2) To explore the perceptions of women living with OF amidst COVID 19 Pandemic
3) To explore the effect of COVID -19 on the livelihood of women with OF.
4) To explore experience in accessing fistula services among women reintegrating and screened for surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Uganda |
2021-10-08 |
2024-10-08 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Alice Emasu
ID: UNCST-2021-R013920
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Profiles of patients with obstetric fistula and childbirth related morbidities in Uganda
REFNo: HS2114ES
Examine the clinical characteristics of childbirth injuries in this group of women and determine the distribution of injuries: obstetric fistula, perineal tears, or pelvic organExamine the clinical characteristics of childbirth injuries in this group of women and determine the distribution of injuries: obstetric fistula, perineal tears, or pelvic organ prolapse, or other morbidities.Determine the demographic characteristics of those birth-injured women from the selected regions of UgandaExamine the four delays as experienced by those birth-injured women from the selected regions of Uganda.
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Uganda |
2022-06-06 10:27:48 |
2025-06-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Alice Endra Ezuru
ID:
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Access and Application of digital technologies among fishing communities in Uganda: a case of Lake Victoria community
REFNo: SS2677ES
i). To examine the information needs (personal, trade, health, fishing inputs, technology) of the fishing communities of Lake Victoria, Uganda.
ii). To establish the digital technologies used in information access by the fishing communities of Lake Victoria, Uganda.
iii). To determine the access and application of digital technologies in information dissemination within the fishing communities and managers of Lake Victoria in Uganda.
v). To examine challenges (if any) in access and application of digital technologies among the fishing communities of Lake Victoria in Uganda.
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Uganda |
2024-05-31 18:29:42 |
2027-05-31 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Alice Gitta Kutyamukama
ID:
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Antenatal Mental Health Information Provision in China Uganda Friendship Hospital Naguru, Uganda
REFNo: SS2180ES
i.To examine the antenatal mental health information needs of pregnant women at CUFHN.
ii. To establish antenatal mental health information services during antenatal care to pregnant women at CUFHN.
iii. To examine the level of access and utilization of antenatal mental health information provision by pregnant women at CUFHN.
iv. To examine the barriers (if any) towards utilization of antenatal mental health information provided to pregnant women at CUFHN.
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Uganda |
2023-12-22 23:00:04 |
2026-12-22 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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alice namatovu
ID: UNCST-2025-R017415
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EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BACTERIOPHAGE COCKTAILS AGAINST MULTI-DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIA ON PATIENTS WITH DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS ATTENDING SELECTED REFERRAL HOSPITALS IN UGANDA
REFNo: HS5652ES
Main objective:
To assess the efficacy of bacteriophages in the management of diabetic foot wounds/ulcers in animal models and among patients attending the selected referral hospitals in Uganda.
Specific Objectives
i) To determine the biological and genotypic characteristics of lytic bacteriophages against the MDR- bacteria isolated from diabetic wounds of patients.
ii) To determine the virulence genes of the bacteria isolated from DFU patients and those genes associated with antimicrobial resistance.
iii) Determine the phage receptor genes on the MDR bacteria isolated from DFU patients.
iv). To evaluate the effectiveness of the identified Bacteriophage preparation/cocktail in the healing of induced diabetic wounds in mice.
v). To evaluate the effectiveness of the identified bacteriophage preparation/cocktail in the healing of diabetic foot wounds on patients in selected referral hospitals in Uganda.
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Uganda |
2025-09-12 16:14:57 |
2028-09-12 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Adam Lichtenheld
ID: UNCST-2024-R004326
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Re:Build – Building Business and Social Networks to Strengthen Refugee Economic and Social Integration
REFNo: SS2803ES
The effect of the intervention on approaches of collaboration and information sharing,The effect of the intervention on psychological and social dimensions for each individual,The effect of the intervention on business outcomes (profit, savings, business growth),The effect of the intervention on network constellations in participants’ egocentric business networks,1. How can interventions support the development of business networks for refugees and nationals in urban markets of developing countries? ,
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USA |
2024-07-26 15:50:47 |
2027-07-26 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Alicia Rich Michelle
ID:
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Chimpanzee Highways: Gene Flow and Connectivity at Itwara Forest Reserve
REFNo: NS36ES
This study will focus on a chimpanzee metapopulation, which likely spans several protected areas in western Uganda by utilizing Itwara Forest Reserve (hereafter ‘Itwara’) as a connective corridor. Contrasting environments characterize at least two of those areas; closed-forest habitat dominates Itwara Forest Reserve (Howard 1991), while closely neighboring Toro-Semliki is usually described as an “open habitat,†(Hunt and McGrew 2002). Initial observations suggest that chimpanzees utilize a connective corridor of ~4 km between those two reserves, not only for rare dispersal events, but also for regular ranging within a single community’s territory (Rich et al. in prep). Here we are proposing to test whether chimpanzees do use a connective corridor between the two reserves, where the chimpanzee-selected corridor is, and what motivates travel through it (i.e. dispersal, foraging, etc.). We will examine the evolutionary and conservation-based implications of corridor-use by Toro-Semliki/Itwara chimpanzees and lay the groundwork for long term, multi-species connectivity research in and around Itwara Forest Reserve using indirect methods. If chimpanzees are using this corridor, then we will expand our research to examine other potential connective corridors that extend from Itwara Forest Reserve into other protected areas such as Kibale National Park and Muhangi Forest Reserve.
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USA |
2018-02-21 |
2021-02-21 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Wang Vibeke
ID:
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Supporting Parenting Care Corners in Markets to Reduce Unpaid Care Work for the Vulnerable Business Women in Uganda
REFNo: SS944ES
1. To deepen the evidence base on whether and how reducing women’s unpaid childcare burden increases their productivity and income.
2. To examine the factors that impede access to parenting care facilities among vulnerable women engaged in business markets in Uganda and how these could be mitigated.
3. Evaluate the effects of parenting care facilities, financial subsidy and parents’ training on the productivity of mothers and profitability of their businesses.
4. To inform government action through tested and proven models for scaling up parenting care corners to both structured and unstructured markets
5. To provide proof of concept on how governments can introduce affordable, effective, and sustainable childcare models that work for vulnerable mothers who work in informal markets in Uganda.
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Norway |
2021-10-01 |
2024-10-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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