Susan Park
ID: UNCST-2025-R019397
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Global Governance, Ecojustice and the Independent Accountability Mechanisms
REFNo: SS4370ES
This project uses an eco-justice frame to analyse publicly available submissions by communities seeking recourse for environmental and social harm as a result of the pipeline financed by the World Bank Group and the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to investigate whether they lead to improvements for people and ecosystems at project sites.
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Australia |
2025-10-21 9:17:15 |
2028-10-21 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Ulrich Kropiunigg
ID:
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Understanding the Preventative and Protective Potential of Fathers: Safeguarding Children from Extremist Influences
REFNo: SS50ES
1.Gain a deeper understanding of extremist mechanisms at the individual psychological/ emotional\r\nlevel from the perspective of fathers.\r\n2.Investigate how fathers can be employed in shielding their children from extremist influences.\r\n3.Develop an understanding of the skills that fathers require in order to effectively prevent and protect\r\ntheir children from extremist influences.
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Austria |
2017-02-21 |
2020-02-21 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Susan Ifeagwu
ID:
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The perceptions and values of multisectoral stakeholders related to universal health coverage (UHC) in Uganda
REFNo: HS1478ES
General objective:
To explore the perceptions, understanding and importance of achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by key stakeholders in Uganda.
Specific objectives:
a. To establish and enumerate the perceived importance being given to UHC as well as key barriers and challenges to achieving UHC in Uganda by national, regional and international health policymakers.
b. To understand local healthcare workers’ awareness and perceptions of UHC and examine differences between the views of urban and rural healthcare workers.
c. To determine the urgency, need, perceived impact (against the Sustainable Development Goals) placed on UHC by stakeholders, including policymakers and healthcare workers.
d. To use generated evidence to develop a policy brief using case examples highlighting promising approaches to support multisectoral UHC collaboration.
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Austria |
2021-11-01 |
2024-11-01 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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JANISCH Judith Judith
ID:
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Ecological influences on Locomotor Performance in Free-Ranging Primates: a phylogenetic investigation
REFNo: NS299ES
- to investigate the evolution of arboreal locomotion in primates and discern which aspects of the arboreal environment most directly influence their locomotor performance.
- to describe kinematics of different primate species (Cercopithecus mitis, Cercopithecus ascanius, Cercopithecus lhoesti, Chlorocebus aethiops,
Lophocebus albigena, Papio anubis, Colobus guereza and Piliocolobus badius) in
their natural habitat and analyze the variation in a phylogenetic context.
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Austria |
2021-10-19 |
2024-10-19 |
Natural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Günther Fink
ID:
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Estimating the Knowledge and Health Impact of Viamo’s 3-2-1 Service (Viamo Impact)
REFNo: HS2372ES
To assess the impact of the 3-2-1 service on nutritional status, chronic disease and birth spacing,To assess the impact of getting access to the 3-2-1 service on self-reported health behaviors,To assess the impact of getting access to the service on reproductive health knowledge ,To assess the extent to which women invited to use the 3-2-1 service access the provided information initially and over time,The goal of the proposed study is to rigorously assess the impact of the 3-2-1 Service on health knowledge and proactive healthy behavior.,
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Austria |
2022-08-08 15:34:28 |
2025-08-08 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Anna Engelmann Maria
ID:
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Determining methods to assess the impact of human activity on stress behaviour of free-ranging Leopards (Panthera pardus) and Lions (Panthera leo) in Queen-Elizabeth NP, Uganda
REFNo: NS390ES
The aim of the proposed research project is to determine behavioural criteria in leopards and lions that correlate with their current stress levels, especially if caused by human proximity. Knowledge derived from this study can help determine and prevent harmful human impact on large cats, as for example by tourism or construction work.
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Austria |
2022-08-19 13:15:43 |
2025-08-19 |
Natural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Munshi Sulaiman
ID:
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Applying Behavioural Activation (BA) as a psychological intervention for adolescents in Uganda.
REFNo: HS724ES
The primary objective of the study is to develop a smartphone app to deliver BA and assess whether it is acceptable and feasible for use with 30 adolescents.
As a secondary objective, we aim to validate measures of mental health and wellbeing, cognition, risky behaviours, and socioeconomic indicators for use in this population, and to examine the association between these variables.
If successful, results from this study will be used to inform the developments of a larger pilot RCT in Uganda.
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Bangladesh |
2020-07-08 |
2023-07-08 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Munshi Sulaiman
ID:
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Evaluation of the Disability-Inclusive Ultra-Poor Graduation Programme (DIG) in Uganda
REFNo: SS529ES
1. To estimate the impact of the Ultra-Poor Graduation programme on poverty, livelihood and social participation of people with disabilities and their families, compared to controls who do not receive the intervention.
2. To estimate the impact of the Ultra-Poor Graduation programme on poverty, livelihood and social participation of people with disabilities and their families, compared to people without disabilities who received the intervention
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Bangladesh |
2020-10-22 |
2023-10-22 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Munshi Sulaiman
ID:
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Women’s Leadership in Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) in Uganda
REFNo: SS685ES
The research has two key objectives. The first is to understand the current starus and barriers of women to take leadership roles in VSLA committees. The second objective is to identify possible interventions that can strengthen their leadership roles.
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Bangladesh |
2021-01-25 |
2024-01-25 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Munshi Sulaiman
ID:
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Mobile money, privacy, security and women’s empowerment: Exploring the impact pathways of digital finance for women’s empowerment
REFNo: SS907ES
This research aims to assess the mechanisms (e.g. security and privacy) through which digital transfers may increase women’s agency and economic empowerment. The study will answer a number of research questions including:
• Are digital transfers more adequate instruments compared to cash transfers for improving women’s economic empowerment?
• Do digital transfers increase women’s privacy over financial information?
• Does privacy of information enhance the women’s enactment of choices?
• Does the secure nature of mobile money transfers significantly impact WEE outcomes?
• Which DFS pathways play a greater role in enhancing women’s agency and enactment of choices; security of money or privacy of information?
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Bangladesh |
2021-08-17 |
2024-08-17 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Isabel Larridon
ID:
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C3 and C4 Cyperaceae of Uganda
REFNo: NS12ES
The fieldwork is organised in the context of a project looking at the differential impact of climate change of C3 and C4 plant lineages in Africa. C4 photosynthesis is an evolutionary response to climate change (including aridification). Multiple independent origins of the C4 pathway in Cyperaceae provide ideal opportunities to study the differential response of C3 and C4 lineages to climate change. The largest diversity of C4 Cyperaceae lineages occurs in Africa allowing us to investigate C4 evolution within the unique climatic and biogeographical history of the continent. Africa is undergoing aridification at a scale and level that is only comparable to Australia. Studying adaptation mechanisms in African flora may be key to decipher long-term evolutionary response to global warming in plants. In the overarching project, we aim to apply the novel HybSeq technique to acquire 350+ low-copy targets and high-copy genomic loci evolving across a range of rates, combined with access to newly available fossils providing further calibration dates, to obtain an accurately dated and robust Cyperaceae Tree-of-Life, resolve relationships in C4 Cyperaceae lineages and identify their closest sister C3 lineages. Together with model-based biogeographical methods and present-day and paleoclimatic ecological niche models informed by baseline data from Royal Botanic Gardens Kew’s vast collection of herbarium records, this data will provide key knowledge on how C3 and C4 Cyperaceae lineages have differentially responded to environmental pressures in Africa over the last c. 85 Ma. This will allow modelling how they will respond in future and inform conservation actions.
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Belgium |
2017-04-25 |
2020-04-25 |
Natural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Dirk Verschuren H
ID:
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Half-precessional solar insolation and the long-term climate history of equatorial East Africa
REFNo: NS121ES
The main objective of this project is to constrain the area of East Africa which has experienced a truly low-latitude climate history influenced primarily by long-term trends in local solar insolation, rather than by the influence of changes in the extent of Northern Hemisphere glaciation. Our working hypothesis is that this area is limited to the region where rainfall originates predominantly from the Indian Ocean rather than the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
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Belgium |
2021-07-01 |
2024-07-01 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Bjorn Van Campenhout -
ID: UNCST-2020-R014080
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Demand and supply factors constraining the emergence and sustainability of an efficient seed system in Uganda.
REFNo: SS603ES
The proposed study aims to provide innovative, evidence-based insights on the:
i. Mechanisms that encourage more efficient marketing and distribution of seed and traits at various levels of commercialization and across heterogeneous populations and agro-ecologies (“improving seed supplyâ€), and;
ii. Mechanisms that nudge farmers—youth, women, and smallholders—into using improved varieties and quality seed, including varieties and seed for climate-smart and nutrient-dense crops and traits (“enhancing seed demandâ€).
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Belgium |
2020-09-23 |
2023-09-23 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Bjorn Van Campenhout -
ID: UNCST-2020-R014080
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Impact of Covid-19 on maize and dairy value chains in Uganda
REFNo: SS699ES
Specific objective: To assess the impact of Covid-19 on the maize and dairy value chain in Uganda.
Specific objective: to determine how the COVID-19 pandemic affected production, marketing/sales and welfare of actors/households along the two value chains.
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Belgium |
2021-02-25 |
2024-02-25 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Lore Vandewalle
ID: UNCST-2021-R014028
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Small Firm Diaries with carpenters in Uganda
REFNo: SS919ES
The main objective of this research is to understand the frictions in the market for outputs that hamper the growth of small-scale carpenters in Uganda. We will write a descriptive paper that outlines the frictions we observed. Given the large number of programs targeting MSMEs to foster employment growth in low-income countries, the recommendations that will emerge from our project will be useful to policy makers operating at local, national and supra-national levels.
The second objective is designing an intervention tailored to remove the most important friction we observed in the market for outputs. We will test this intervention using a randomized control trial and will estimate its causal effect on the growth of small-scale carpenters. Growth will be measured through changes in revenues, profits, productivity and employment. This should be informative to both academics and policy makers as well. The intervention is not yet defined, as we want to use the data to identify the most prominent friction in the market for outputs that limits the growth of carpenters. We will request an amendment to this IRB as soon as it has been designed.
The final objective is assembling unique data on small-scale carpenters in Uganda. As detailed in the methodology subsection below, we will create two unique panels that will allow us to map a complete, real-time characterization of the performance of small enterprises, decision-making and shock responses of entrepreneurs, inputs’ usage and business relationships, including partner-specific trade interactions. These datasets are instrumental to accomplish the first two objectives: it provides the information needed to understand the frictions in the markets for outputs (main objective) and to define the intervention (objective 2). We list the datasets as a separate objective, as these will become public and can thus be used by policy makers, other researchers and students as well.
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Belgium |
2021-07-27 |
2024-07-27 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Karen Marcours
ID: UNCST-2021-R011626
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Adoption of Household and landscape level impacts of Biofortified crops in Uganda
REFNo: A171ES
The study aims to collect 10-year follow-up data to construct a national-level panel of bean and sweet potato producers in Uganda, to study the adoption and disadoption dynamics of different varieties and the relationship with virus-resistance, farm structure and landscape level outcomes. This will aim to inform the design of a possible follow-up data collection efforts (later in 2021) to analyze the nutritional-related gains from biofortification.
The study further aims to test various data collection methods for community-level information, with the objective of optimizing survey design of community-level instruments, applicable in a wide range of future studies to analyze the reach of agricultural innovations and their implications.
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Belgium |
2022-01-06 |
2025-01-06 |
Agricultural Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Pieter Rutsaert
ID:
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Next Generation Product Profiles in Maize: Using video descriptions of future products to identify farmers’ preferences
REFNo: SS1173ES
• Understand farmer preferences on the next generation profiles of hybrid maize in East Africa;
• To ensure seed companies can improve their communications by focusing on farmer needs;
• Identify differences in farmer needs based on maturity class, gender, farming practices and socio-demographic profile
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Belgium |
2022-02-15 |
2025-02-15 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Bjorn Van Campenhout -
ID: UNCST-2020-R014080
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Quality and food safety in the Ugandan dairy value chain
REFNo: SS1520ES
To measure the impact of visualizing milk quality attributes to farmers and milk collection centers (MCCs) on the compositional quality of milk (butter fat content and solid non-fat content) at both levels.
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Belgium |
2022-12-06 16:29:54 |
2025-12-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Bjorn Van Campenhout -
ID: UNCST-2020-R014080
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Increasing Adoption and Varietal Turnover of Seed: Consumer and Producer Side Interventions
REFNo: SS1657ES
The study will be implemented through a cluster randomize control trial, where a sample of treatment villages (clusters) will receive producer side treatments (free seed trial packs or discounted seed trial packs of a poorly adopted improved maize variety, Bazooka) while other treatment villages will receive a consumer side intervention involving cooking and tasting demonstration of maize from the improved variety. However, in both treatment and control groups, we will inform farmers about the existence of the improved seed variety and the benefits of using them, to be able to isolate the effect of the trail pack from merely knowledge effects.
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Belgium |
2023-03-16 12:43:52 |
2026-03-16 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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David Mwambari
ID:
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Traveling Memories, Silences and Secrets (TMSS): Life narratives of
Violence Among Refugees from Africa’s Great Lakes Region – A case of
Uganda
REFNo: SS2424ES
The study will be guided by the following objectives:
1. Empirically: (a) to map and examine how the life narratives of refugees evolve from contexts of origin to countries of transition and destination (Burundi⇒Tanzania⇒USA;
DRC⇒Uganda⇒Belgium; Rwanda⇒Kenya⇒South Africa); (b) to investigate the evolution
of the memories, silences, and secrets that AGLR refugees carry in their trajectories of
migration.
2. Theoretically: to analyse (a) how space and time transform these life narratives on the move, and (b) how these transformed life narratives shape relationships within refugee communities and relationships with host communities in countries of transition and destination.
3. Epistemologically: (a) to develop a set of innovative interdisciplinary perspectives and
methodological approaches that can be used in researching the memory dynamics and mobility
that originate from Global South lived experiences; (b) to foster collaboration between a diverse multidisciplinary, international team of researchers involved in the TMSS project.
4. Policy: to explore how (a) our understanding of life narratives on the move can transform policy-making at local, regional, and international levels; and (b) how this understanding shapes practitioners’ work with refugees in countries of transition and destination.
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Belgium |
2024-08-06 17:46:31 |
2027-08-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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