Antje Daniel
ID: UNCST-2024-R003872
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"New kids on the block”? Youth environmental engagement and Fridays for Future. An intersectional and global perspective
REFNo: SS3040ES
This new environmental youth engagement as a young and quickly developing movement has not received in-depth academic attention, neither in the field of youth studies nor in social movement studies, especially not youth engagement in the Global South (see below). The motives of youth and their particular understandings of engagement remain insufficiently investigated. In addition, there is increasing criticism of youth environmental activism, namely that FFF is at least in Europe ‘white’ and supported by a well-educated middle-class elite leading to the accusation that it reproduces hierarchies (see below). However, there are hardly any academic studies that examine privileges, hierarchies and discrimination within FFF from an intersectional perspective. In order to respond to these research gaps an intersectional perspective is used to understand the motives and activism of youth in Austria, Bangladesh and Uganda and thereby their global interrelatedness. This scientifically necessary and timely research is also politically relevant since youth are acting at the forefront of environmental movements. In addition, youth engagement participants have become increasingly integrated into the international politics of the UN and are in dialogue with politicians. It can be argued further that youth engagement is not ‘just’ a certain stage of life but that it lays the foundation for transformation processes (Harré 2016; Riemer et al. 2016). Young advocates are frequently those taking up important political and social leadership in the future due to their interest and experience of advocacy (Giugni 1998; Leistner 2018): They are a “cohort of citizens who will be active participants in democracy” (Fischer 2019, 430).
Because a new youth activism emerged which is unique due to its global scope and the low average age new scientific perspectives are needed to analyse this phenomenon: A synthesis of youth and civil society studies combined with intersectionality and a comparative case study design offer an original analytical framework. This framework will provide in-depth knowledge on context-specific differences of youth engagement in Austria, Bangladesh and Uganda and commonalities of global youth activism and its activism towards ecological transformation. This research is needed scientifically because FFF is one of the major civil society players in global environmental politics and in manifold national contexts.
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Germany |
2024-10-31 15:48:00 |
2027-10-31 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Maren Mickeler
ID: UNCST-2024-R003691
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Understanding supportive leadership in organizations
REFNo: SS3820ES
This study investigates how supportive leadership influences bottom-up knowledge sharing within organizations. Although frontline employees often have valuable insights, their knowledge frequently fails to reach upper management—often due to supervisory barriers such as strict hierarchies, micromanagement, or a lack of psychological safety.
To address this, the research team is conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in collaboration with Centenary Bank Uganda. The intervention involves providing supportive leadership training to supervisors (middle managers) in randomly selected bank branches. Control branches will not receive the training during the study period.
Our main objective therefore is to test and measure the effect of supportive leadership training on bottom-up knowledge sharing and other organizational outcomes in a real-world organizational setting.
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Germany |
2025-06-05 8:57:07 |
2028-06-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Graff Tilman
ID: UNCST-2025-R016859
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The Use and Repair of Capital by Small Enterprises and Economic Growth: Evidence from Uganda
REFNo: SS3846ES
The study aims to generate more knowledge on the economic forces behind repair provision for machines and their effects in Uganda as a whole.
Specifically, it intends to:
(i) Quantify market frictions shaping the availability of repair services for capital used by small enterprises in the milling, coffee bean hulling and commuter motorcycle industries.
a. Analyse the apparent dichotomy between the thriving capital repair market in Kampala and the dearth of timely repair in more remote areas in the country using Luwero as a case study.
b. Understand the business considerations of mechanics in planning where to locate, which machinery to specialise in, and how to acquire customers.
(ii) Examine the impact of the availability of capital repair services on economic growth at the micro and macro levels
a. At a micro level, the study examines the impact of the availability of capital repair services on the growth of small enterprises in the milling, coffee bean hulling and commuter motorcycle industries.
b. At a macro level, using findings on business growth through a simulation, the study examines the impact of the availability of capital repair services on Uganda’s economic growth.
(iii) Make policy simulations and recommendations.
a. Simulate the impact of different policies aimed at overcoming the identified frictions, such as subsidies and benefits to repair personnel, impacting in the price of spare parts, achieved through tariff changes, transportation infrastructure improvements, or quality improvement, and expanded training programs for mechanics.
b. Using the above simulations, formulate policy recommendations for the Ugandan government. As an example, the price of spare parts is a crucial variable measured in our survey. One way the government can lower the price of spare parts is through lowering tariffs. Our simulations will make predictions about the economic value of such a tariff policy, allowing us to make a recommendation as to whether such a policy should be pursued.
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Germany |
2025-05-14 9:55:08 |
2028-05-14 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Julian Benedict Kuttig
ID: UNCST-2025-R018435
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Youth Participation, Representation, and Civic Engagement in the Context of Social Cohesion: The Case of Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi and Rajshahi University, Bangladesh.
REFNo: SS3956ES
1. To investigate how student civic engagement contributes to social cohesion within university and local communities.
2. To understand the factors that shape student civic agency, including cultural, institutional, and policy influences.
3. To explore how lessons learned from diverse contexts can challenge the global North/South dichotomy and provide transferable insights into fostering social cohesion.
4. To shed light on the unique spatial and social dynamics of secondary cities as sites of youth civic engagement, offering a counterbalance to strictly urban- or rural-centric research.
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Germany |
2025-06-20 8:26:29 |
2028-06-20 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Caroline Gotsche Isabelle
ID: UNCST-2025-R021504
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Antenatal syphilis testing in central Uganda - Exploring provider-level factors affecting maternal syphilis testing coverage
REFNo: HS6671ES
1. Mapping the current body of literature of syphilis testing in ANC services.This will allow us to obtain an overview on the current state of syphilis testing among pregnant women in ANC services in Uganda.
2. Understanding impeding and facilitating factors of syphilis testing in ANC services.
Investigating providers` (Health Care Workers (HCW), midwives, nurses and physicians) knowledge of syphilis, and their experiences, perceptions, ideas and interest in syphilis testing will be essential to gain deeper understanding of these factors. Additionally, providers’ interest and ideas on engaging partners in antenatal syphilis testing will be explored to address the issue of re-infection in pregnant women. To gain an overview of a pregnant woman’s journey through the clinic, paying particular attention to how syphilis screening fits into antenatal care clinic observations will be conducted.
3. Exploring syphilis self-testing as a novel syphilis testing strategy in ANC services.
Investigating policy makers`, providers’ and pregnant women’s understanding and interest in the use of syphilis self-testing will be investigated. Whether the use of secondary distribution of self-test kits to partners of pregnant women to enhance partner engagement may be an acceptable approach among pregnant women will be also examined.
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Germany |
2025-11-07 5:12:16 |
2028-11-07 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Sarah Wilker
ID: UNCST-2025-R019791
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One size fits all? Towards individual prediction of treatment success for posttraumatic stress disorder in post-conflict settings (TRAUMA-FIT)
REFNo: HS6712ES
Main Objective
1. to identify individual predictors of treatment response to two different treatments in survivors with PTSD in a post-conflict setting
Specific Objectives
1. Investigate whether NET is, on average, more effective than PM+ for the treatment of PTSD
2. Identify predictors of optimal response in the two conditions, and thereby identify predictors of treatment success in a trauma-focused versus present-focused treatment
3. Investigate the explanatory role of socio-ecological factors in PTSD treatment response
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Germany |
2025-11-26 14:28:24 |
2028-11-26 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Konrad Burchard Burchardi
ID: UNCST-2025-R023135
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Empowering Agriculturalists through Structured Experimentation (EASE)
REFNo: SS4724ES
With this project, we aim to measure how individualised experimentation influences the adoption of modern inputs by improving the ability of farmers to make decisions, based on direct observations, that suit their own soils and farming conditions. To accomplish this, we aim to examine both agronomic and behavioral outcomes:
Agronomic objectives :
- We want to estimate the impact of modern agricultural inputs on maize yields, depending on known soil characteristics measured through soil sample analysis.
- This will allow us to identify complementarities or substitution patterns between inputs (hybrid seeds, fertilizer) by comparing yields across structured experimental squares.
- We also expect this study to assess whether simple field experiments conducted by farmers themselves produce reliable agronomic information that can guide input choices.
Behavioral objectives:
- With this study, we want to understand how farmers engage with the structured experimentation methodology, and document how farmers interpret the outcomes of their experiments and how these outcomes shape their input decisions for the next agricultural season.
- A control/treated group design will also allow us to understand the added value of the EASE training beyond access to inputs alone, by comparing farmers who receive inputs plus experimentation training to farmers who receive inputs only.
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Germany |
2026-02-05 22:12:41 |
2029-02-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Gloria Odei Adobea
ID:
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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.
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Ghana |
2019-01-15 |
2022-01-15 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Adeline Boatin
ID: UNCST-2019-R001255
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Wireless Physiologic Monitoring in Postpartum Women
REFNo: HS417ES
1. To estimate the clinical effectiveness of wireless physiologic monitoring of women in the first 24 hours after emergency cesarean delivery at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH)
2. To evaluate the clinical adoption of wireless physiologic monitoring at MRRH using an implementation science approach.
3. To use qualitative methods to explore clinical adoption and acceptability of wireless physiologic monitoring among postpartum women at MRRH and understand facilitators and barriers to uptake of wireless physiologic monitoring.
4. To estimate the cost of providing wireless physiologic monitoring of women in the first 24 hours after emergency cesarean delivery at MRRH
5. To estimate the incremental cost-effectiveness, measured as cost per severe maternal outcome adverted using wireless physiologic monitoring compared to current standard of care monitoring.
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Ghana |
2019-08-15 |
2022-08-15 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Jacob Sarfo
ID:
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Contribution of processed fruits and vegetables towards sustainable nutrition in East Africa: case study from Uganda
REFNo: A54ES
a) improve the nutrition and health status of consumers – especially women and children b) gauge the knowledge, attitudes and practices of consumers towards fruits and vegetable intake and c) reduce the cost of diet and thus improving affordability.
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Ghana |
2019-10-31 |
2022-10-31 |
Agricultural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Adeline Boatin
ID: UNCST-2019-R001255
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Caesarean delivery in Uganda: a mixed methods study
REFNo: HS758ES
1. To use survey methods to explore practice patterns of clinicians around caesarean usage in Uganda.
2. To use qualitative methods to explore practice patterns of clinicians and clinical policy makers around caesarean usage in Uganda
3. To describe CS rates, factors associated with CS and maternal and neonatal outcomes according to Robson group classification at Regional Referral Hospitals and large private non-profit hospitals in Uganda
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Ghana |
2020-12-15 |
2023-12-15 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah
ID:
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On Psy Scientific Child Observations: Encounters and the (De)Construction of “the African” (1930-1980)
REFNo: SS2499ES
1. To explore how psychological inclined scientists working in Uganda and Kenya between 1930s and 1980s shaped and utilised theories of child rearing practices to understand the social and political context of colonialism and the decolonial processes.
2. To interrogate how psychological inclined scientists played an important part in constructing ‘the African’ as an object of knowledge during late colonialism in Uganda and Kenya.
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Ghana |
2024-03-20 16:11:32 |
2027-03-20 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Adeline Boatin
ID: UNCST-2019-R001255
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Education of pregnant women with a prenatal indication for cesarean section through periodic short message service (SMS) and interactive voice response system (IVR) in Uganda
REFNo: HS4081ES
1. To pilot the use of SMS and IVR among high-risk pregnant women scheduled for elective caesarean section and receiving antenatal care at the Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda.
2.a)To determine the acceptability of SMS and IVR among high-risk pregnant women among high risk pregnant women scheduled for elective caesarean section.
2.b)To determine the feasibility of using SMS and IVR for education among high risk pregnant women scheduled for elective caesarean section.
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Ghana |
2024-06-05 17:34:20 |
2027-06-05 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Isidore Dorpenyo Kafui
ID:
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Exploring local literacies, pedagogies, and teacher perceptions in Ugandan university writing courses.
REFNo: SS2614ES
This study has two main goals: a) it explores the local pedagogies in Uganda's university Academic English writing courses and b) it explores the attitudes that English writing instructors and curriculum designers have toward Academic English writing.
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Ghana |
2024-05-31 18:21:59 |
2027-05-31 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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EBENEZER DEBRAH LARTEY
ID: UNCST-2023-R007570
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Artificial Intelligence-Based Enhancement of Mammography Interpretation for Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis
REFNo: SIR368ES
d. To evaluate the acceptability and usability of the developed model.,c. To test and validate the developed algorithms for accurate and timely diagnosis and classification of breast cancer from x-ray mammograms.,b. To develop AI-based algorithms for accurate and timely diagnosis and classification of breast cancer from x-ray mammograms.,a. To establish the extent to which artificial intelligence has been adopted in breast cancer diagnosis and classification from x-ray mammograms.,The main objective is to improve the accuracy and timely diagnosis of breast cancer from X-ray mammograms in resource-constrained areas.,
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Ghana |
2024-11-19 7:25:26 |
2027-11-19 |
Engineering and Technology |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Michael Brown Obeng
ID:
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Social Innovation and Health Technologies for Community Health Workers: An Afro-centric Perspective
REFNo: SS3003ES
To develop an alternative theoretical model to account for Afro-centric perspectives when deploying of socially innovative health technologies for CHWs in Uganda that contributes to the advancement of the field of social innovation theory,To co-design strategies that incorporate Afro-centric views, including cultural and social context, when deploying socially innovative health technologies for CHWs in rural Uganda ,To explore factors that promote community engagement in order to understand how the Afro-centric perspectives can be leveraged when deploying of socially innovative health technologies for CHWs in rural Uganda,To compare existing health technologies with the conventional paper- based systems utilised by community health workers (CHWs) in the context of rural Uganda.,
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Ghana |
2024-08-29 18:16:46 |
2027-08-29 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Sharon Pang Sze Lu
ID:
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Transform Randomised Controlled Trial in Uganda
REFNo: SS1823ES
To evaluate the impact of the Transform program on the key indicators in values, health and livelihood in Uganda
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Hong Kong |
2023-08-25 8:07:30 |
2026-08-25 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Hella Peter Eszter
ID:
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Variation in the leaf-tools of wild chimpanzees: Budongo Forest Reserve
REFNo: NS77ES
This research examines leaf-tool use and repertoire in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. In the forest, there are two habituated chimpanzee communities: Waibira, where habituation started in 2011, and Sonso, where habituation started in 1990. Both groups have a unique tool repertoire, without any stick or stone based tools, as opposed to those described at other long-term chimpanzee field sites. Additionally, the Waibira group faces an unusual ecological pressure during the dry season, when, despite being a forest living group, all permanent sources of water dry up. Describing their tool repertoire and investigating how it differs from the neighbouring Sonso community, who have permanent water sources all year around, will shed light on the ecological and social pressures driving the development of tool use.
The project aims to provide a detailed description of the leaf-tool use of the Waibira chimpanzees of the Budongo forest, during the dry season lasting from December to end of February. Other aims are to determine variables that influence the use of leaf-tools, accurately measure leaf tools, and draw a developmental timeline for the most common type of leaf-tool, leaf-sponging. This will allow for detailed description of the leaf-tools of the community.
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Hungary |
2019-03-11 |
2022-03-11 |
Natural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Hella Peter Eszter
ID:
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The effects of water shortage on female chimpanzee social behaviour in the Budongo Forest Reserve
REFNo: NS278ES
This research examines the space use and social behavior of female chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. In the forest, there are two habituated chimpanzee communities – Waibira, where habituation started in 2011, and Sonso, where habituation started in 1990. While both groups have high year-round food availability, the Waibira group faces an unusual ecological pressure during the annual dry season, when, despite being a rainforest-dwelling group, all permanent water sources within their home range dry up, with the exception of one waterhole. Describing how the female chimpanzees of the community are affected by this annually recurring water scarcity will help us understand the ecological pressures influencing chimpanzee social and ranging behavior. The project aims to provide a detailed description of the ranging of Waibira females, as well as their association patterns, levels of aggression, and gregariousness, and investigate whether any seasonal changes due to water availability are present. Other aims are to determine the dominance hierarchy of the females of the group, and to investigate whether individual factors influence strategies used to deal with water scarcity, such as increasing daily travel, or consuming more water-rich food.
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Hungary |
2021-12-13 |
2024-12-13 |
Natural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Padmasai Lakshmi Bhamidipati
ID:
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Agency and Policy Change Shaping the Solar Energy Transitions in Uganda
REFNo: SS80ES
The overarching objective of this research is to capture the macro-dynamics and the socio-technical changes affecting the solar energy transitions, through an understanding of agency in institutions and policy changes. The aim is to study the electrification strategy at the national level, and with a specific focus at the rural electrification level - to examine the role, developments and debates in the solar energy sector (both grid and off-grid). Through this, the study will deconstruct the role of decentralized modern energy (such as off-grid solar) in alleviating energy access, the debates/contestations among the electricity institutions, the role of political forces in shaping the energy mix, and what does such a transition mean in a larger socio-economic and political context.
This PhD project will help in a better understanding of the factors that support a transition to sustainable energy system and overall sustainable development in developing countries (which have a very low electrification rates at present). At the same time, the PhD project aims to provide a greater understanding of the role of transnational linkages and stakeholders within a national context, and the development of an innovation system in the solar sector in Uganda (in terms of changes in the local institutional and socio-economic structures, local competence-building and experience-based learning). The development of institutions and technical-economic capacities at a local level will create further market opportunities for private sector intervention in the solar sector.
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India |
2017-09-05 |
2020-09-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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