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Agnes Kyamulabi
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CROSS-BORDER OPPORTUNITIES FOR MIGRATION, PEACE AND SELF-SUSTENANCE (COMPASS)
REFNo: SS1736ES

Objective 1: To establish the existing income generating and livelihood opportunities and identify the gaps that can be fixed by the COMPASS project.

Objective 2: To assess the level of understanding and experiences of safety and enjoyment of human rights among displacement affected persons in Uganda and South Sudan.

Objective 3:To examine the level of accessibility to integrated basic services by displacement affected persons before the intervention is implemented

Uganda 2023-06-20 11:51:26 2026-06-20 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Obbo Aggrey
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Algorithms for detection and management people crowds using wireless sensor networks
REFNo: SIR31ES

Design develop and analyze algorithms for people crowds detection and management using wireless sensor networks.
Uganda 2020-03-20 2023-03-20 Engineering and Technology Degree Award
Akulia Agnes
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UNDERSTANDING ACCESS TO SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: A CASE OF WOMEN IN PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN KOBOKO DISTRICT, UGANDA
REFNo: SS623ES

The main objective of this study is to establish how women in school leadership been able to navigate their way into leadership positions. Specifically the study will establish factors that motivate women to pursue school leadership positions, the barriers women have to navigate to access positions of school leadership and the strategies women use to enhance them access school leadership positions.
Uganda 2021-08-16 2024-08-16 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Elvaida Agnes Tagulwa Twesigye
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QUALITY ASSURANCE PRACTICES AND STUDENTS’ EMPLOYABILITY IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN UGANDA: A CASE OF KYAMBOGO UNIVERSITY
REFNo: SS868ES

1. To analyse the curriculum review process and students’ employability.
2. To assess the role of career education in promoting students’ employability.
3. To measure the extent to which Industrial training enriches students’ employability.
4. To evaluate employability skills and competences students need within the changing expectations of the labour market.
5. To assess Institutional Leadership and the functioning of Quality Assurance practices at Kyambogo University.

Uganda 2023-02-14 14:23:34 2026-02-14 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Agnes Kabajuni
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Researching Green Activism: How to better protect minority and indigenous communities, Civil Society Organisations, Networks, and climate Change Defenders in East Africa
REFNo: SS2032ES

Overall Objective: to create an enabling environment for climate change defenders from the ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples to play their role in pushing for responsive climate actions, hold governments accountable and protection of communities adversely affected by climate change impacts in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Specific Objectives: a) Generate knowledge by collecting evidence that leads to a deeper understanding of key stakeholders of the challenges faced by environmental activists from the ethnic and indigenous minorities and traditional knowledge as climate change mitigation strategies.
b) Equip environmental activists from MIPs with knowledge/ideas on how to develop successful strategies to mitigate the challenges they face as part of their work and how to meaningfully blend gender and social inclusion in their work.
c) Promote greater collaboration, cross exchange and learning between duty bearers, civil society movements for inclusive decision-making processes.

Uganda 2024-01-25 18:32:52 2027-01-25 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Agnes Ssali Nanfuka
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Investigating the social, health and economic vulnerabilities and resilience of children of women at high risk of HIV in Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: SS463ES

To determine the prevalence of HIV in children (aged 12-24 years) and their mothers who engage in sex for money or commodities at the GHWP clinic in Kampala, Uganda
2. To determine points of vulnerability and resilience in children of high-risk women through life course histories of a selected sample of children attending GHWP clinic
3. To understand the pathways through which contextual, structural and mental health challenges affect biomedical and behavioural HIV prevention and treatment outcomes of women who engage in sex for money or commodities in Kampala and their children

Uganda 2020-07-22 2023-07-22 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Agnes  Nakakawa
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Towards an ICT-driven Community-based Nutrition Education network for increasing awareness and knowledge transfer on Maternal Nutrition (NEMAT)
REFNo: SS1224ES

AIM:
The research aims at increasing community-level awareness on maternal nutrition and adoption of healthy nutrition practices among women of reproductive age, through establishing an ICT-driven community-based nutrition education network for supporting transfer of information/knowledge on maternal nutrition aspects.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
Specifically, this research will:
1) Increase availability and accessibility of maternal nutrition information/knowledge, through developing an ICT platform for disseminating IEC materials on maternal nutrition.
2) Enable timely sharing of information/knowledge on challenges in maternal nutrition and solution/best practices, through supporting interactive dialogue between health and nutrition specialists and women at community level.
3) Enable contextual understanding of maternal nutrition aspects and required interventions, through prompting women to provide feedback on IEC materials and devising control measures for continuous improvement of IEC materials.
4) Ensure existence of an operational multidisciplinary and community-based stakeholder network, through leveraging on the role of community health extension workers to establish the network and continuously monitor its performance.

Uganda 2022-05-10 17:20:25 2025-05-10 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
AGNESS NATABA
ID: UNCST-2024-R002018
Reclaiming Rights:Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom Women and their Quest for Reparative Justice from British Colonialism
REFNo: SS4501ES

1. To examine how historical injustices faced by women in the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom during British colonial rule affected their cultural setting. 2. To evaluate existing reparative justice efforts for women in the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom. 3. To assess how gender-responsiveness the existing reparative efforts are in fostering inclusive justice, healing, and environmental justice for women in the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom.
Uganda 2025-10-29 12:44:59 2028-10-29 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Gloria  Odei Adobea
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Utility of mid-upper arm circumference in case detection, admission, monitoring treatment and referral of children 6-59 months with severe acute malnutrition in Karamoja: a retrospective analysis
REFNo: HS304ES

To assess the utility of MUAC as an indicator for case detection, admission, monitoring treatment and referral of children 6-59 months with SAM in Karamoja.
Ghana 2019-01-15 2022-01-15 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Stephen Agonzibwa
ID: UNCST-2024-R004214
Resource Mobilization Modalities And Their Influence On The Viability Of Academic Programs In Private Universities In Fort Portal City
REFNo: HS4561ES

3. Examine the efficiency of current resource allocation practices and their contribution to sustainability in Fort Portal City\'s Private Universities.,2. To investigate the effectiveness of partnerships and collaborations in mobilizing resources on the viability of academic programs in private universities in Fort Portal City.,1. Evaluate how private universities in Fort Portal City engage with various stakeholders to mobilize resources for the viability of their academic programs,The general objective of this study is to systematically investigate the effectiveness of existing financial resource mobilization approaches and their direct influence on the viability of academic programs in Uganda.,
Uganda 2024-10-23 17:31:44 2027-10-23 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
MONICA AHABWE
ID: UNCST-2023-R006462
Teachers' experiences in Implementing the Lower Secondary Curriculum in Mbarara City in Uganda
REFNo: SS2973ES

1. To examine secondary school teachers’ experiences of planning for teaching using the Lower Secondary Curriculum in Mbarara City in Uganda?
2.To examine secondary school teachers’ experiences of teaching using the Lower Secondary Curriculum in Mbarara City in Uganda?
3. To examine secondary school teachers’ experiences of assessment using the Lower Secondary Curriculum in Mbarara City in Uganda?

Uganda 2024-11-22 17:28:45 2027-11-22 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Onesmus  Ahabwe Magezi
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COMMON CAUSES OF ABNORMAL VAGINAL DISCHARGE AND ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY AMONG WOMEN ATTENDING THE GYGAECOLOGICAL OUTPATIENT CLINIC OF MBARARA REGIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL
REFNo: HS1456ES

1.To determine the common bacterial isolates among women with abnormal vaginal discharge attending the gynecological outpatient clinic of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
2.To describe the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of bacterial isolates among women with abnormal vaginal discharge attending the gynecological clinic of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
3.To identify the factors associated with antibiotic resistance to commonly used antibiotics among women with abnormal vaginal discharge attending the gynecological outpatient clinic of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital

Uganda 2021-07-12 2024-07-12 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Ahamya William
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A Framework to Enhance Confidentiality and Privacy of Data in Motion.
REFNo: SIR102ES

Carryout a preliminary study to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of the designed framework.,To design a framework aimed at enhancing confidentiality and privacy of data in motion,To find out the weaknesses in the existing frameworks and establish requirements to improve the confidentiality and privacy of data in motion.,The main objective of this study will be to improve the existing frameworks by designing one with enhanced confidentiality and privacy of data in motion in car sensors.,
Uganda 2022-05-30 17:16:31 2025-05-30 Engineering and Technology Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Ahmed Ddungu
ID: UNCST-2019-R000944
THE ROLE OF TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1 AS A PREDICTOR OF COPD IN A COHORT OF POST-TB HIV INFECTED PATIENTS IN UGANDA
REFNo: HS350ES

Primary objective:
• To assess for long term respiratory outcomes of TB in HIV infected adults by determining the burden of COPD and associated factors among members in the Study on Outcomes related to Tuberculosis and HIV drug concentrations’ (SOUTH) TB-HIV cohort at IDI at 0 and 24 months after enrolment in the TGFbeta study.
Secondary objectives
• To assess the association between serum TGFβ1 levels and burden of COPD amongst post-TB patients in the IDI ‘(SOUTH) TB-HIV cohort.
• To assess for an association between chest X-ray abnormalities at the end of TB treatment and COPD in post-TB HIV infected adults in the SOUTH study TB-HIV cohort at IDI.

Uganda 2019-05-28 2022-05-28 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Ahmed Ddungu
ID: UNCST-2019-R000944
CHARACTERIZATION OF TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATED LUNG FIBROSIS AND RESPIRATORY IMPAIRMENT, AND PREVENTION USING DOXYCYCLINE IN A DOUBLE BLIND RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL
REFNo: HS3385ES

To characterise/describe TB associated lung fibrosis and TB associated chronic respiratory impairment (where appropriate: burden and severity, radiological phenotype based on high resolution CT, clinical phenotype based on symptoms and lung function status, and predictors/ associations (including with selected biomarkers)); and to assess the efficacy of doxycycline as an adjuvant therapy to prevent TALF amongst patients with advanced TB
Uganda 2024-03-20 15:59:56 2027-03-20 Medical and Health Sciences Clinical Trial Degree Award
AHEEBWA ROGGERS COLLINS
ID: UNCST-2025-R017036
Tax Policies And Financial Performance Of Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda: A Case Of SMEs in Kabale District
REFNo: SS3844ES

i. To examine the effect of tax compliance costs on the financial performance of small and medium enterprises in Kabale district
ii. To examine the effect of tax incentives on the financial performance of small and medium enterprises in Kabale district.
iii. To examine the effect of tax rates on the financial performance of small scale and medium enterprises in Kabale district.


Uganda 2025-06-02 17:15:52 2028-06-02 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
IRENE AHEISIBWE
ID:
Learning Strategies, Core Self-Evaluations and Achievement Goal Orientations among Prisoners on Formal and Vocational Training in Uganda
REFNo: SS5ES

• To explore learning strategies used by prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda\r\n• Assess demographic variations in achievement goal orientations among prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda \r\n• Examine the relationship between learning strategies and achievement goal orientations among prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda \r\n• Establish the association between learning strategies and core-self evaluations among prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda\r\n• Examine the association between core-self evaluations and achievement goal orientations among prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda \r\n• Examine the moderating effect of core self-evaluations on the relationship between learning strategies and achievement goal orientations among prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda \r\n
Uganda 2016-07-01 2019-07-01 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Emmanuel Ahishakiye
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A Dictionary Learning Approach for Medical Image Reconstruction in Low Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging
REFNo: SIR23ES

i. To determine the suitable dictionary learning algorithms for image reconstruction in low field MRI.
ii. To design and develop a suitable algorithms capable of image reconstruction in low field MRI.
iii. To test and validate the developed algorithms as a means of demonstrating its mechanism and viability.

Uganda 2020-01-13 2023-01-13 Engineering and Technology Degree Award
Dianah Ahumuza Ateenyi
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The impact of tax incentives on the realisation of economic and social rights: A focus on tax holidays and the right to basic education in Uganda
REFNo: SS666ES

1. To examine the historical background and justification of tax incentives generally and tax holidays specifically especially in Uganda.
2. To explore the adequacy of the legal and policy framework on tax incentives, especially tax holidays in Uganda and how it impacts revenue for the realisation of ESRs, specifically the right to basic education;
3. To analyse the relationship between government revenue and basic education financing and how it the realisation of the right to basic education.
4. To recommend appropriate legal, policy and administrative reforms for the better management of tax incentives generally and tax holidays specifically for the realisation of Uganda’s international and domestic ESRs obligations, with specific emphasis on the right to basic education.

Uganda 2021-02-25 2024-02-25 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Aidah Nanvuma
ID: UNCST-2024-R015734
EVALUATING THE CAPACITY BUILDING MODEL USED TO NURTURE INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INVESTIGATORS AT THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES INSTITUTE, UGANDA
REFNo: HS1100ES

Objective 1: To describe Capacity Building Unit support activities and scholarly outputs and outcomes since inception. Objective 2: To determine how particular components of the unit scientific and non-scientific support(Inputs) contribute to scholar (past and present) outputs and outcomes since inception. Objective 3: To identify and address areas of improvement in unit support activities through the engagement of current and former stakeholders (beneficiaries and benefactors).
Uganda 2021-03-01 2024-03-01 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
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