Nele Jensen
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What matters, where and how – evidence-informed policy networks and the making of knowledge in global health
REFNo: SSH2ES
With the WHO as an early and influential proponent, evidence-based/-informed health policy approaches have become something of a shibboleth, separating the good from the bad in global health decision-making and deemed indispensable to improving health especially in low-income countries. This research project traces the emergence and transformations of evidence-for-policy approaches at the WHO; and explores how evidence-informed policy is currently practiced through the WHO’s prime evidence-for-policy mechanism, the Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet).\r\nThe Uganda EVIPNet country ‘node’, run by the Regional East Africa Community Health (REACH) Policy Initiative, counts among the most active and successful evidence-to-policy initiatives on the continent (Ongolo-Zogo et al. 2014; WHO 2016). Using EVIPNet/REACH Uganda as an empirical case study, this component of my research project examines some the practices, promises and challenges of evidence-based policy in Uganda.\r\n
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Germany |
2016-06-01 |
2019-06-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Moses Muwanguzi Mawanda
ID:
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Testing Researhc March 2017
REFNo: A15ES
Objectives of the research project
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Uganda |
2018-06-23 |
2021-06-23 |
Agricultural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Tiffany Atkinson Aria
ID:
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Testing the role of turbidity and diet on the reproductive traits in an African cichlid fish (Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae)
REFNo: NS16ES
The goal of the proposed research is to better understand the influence of turbidity and diet on the behavior and development of reproductive traits in an African cichlid fish (Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae).
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USA |
2017-06-06 |
2020-06-06 |
Natural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Mwesigwa Collins K
ID:
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Testing Feb 12 RMG
REFNo: ICS2ES
To Test trhe RMGt Application June 18th
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Uganda |
2016-06-01 |
2019-06-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Anders Sjögren
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Battles over boundaries. Contested devolution in Kenya and Uganda
REFNo: SS20ES
This project analyses how the politics of contested devolution influences inclusion and exclusion at the sub-national political level in two divided societies, Kenya and Uganda. In societies characterised by deep-running political divisions, inequalities and exclusion, the issue of how to organise and distribute political power impacts hugely on stability. Devolution of power and resources to sub-national entities is often promoted as a remedy for problems of exclusion. However, changes in territorial demarcation and relocation of authority set off struggles over who should exercise what power, how and where. At the same time, fluid political identities frequently conflict with the scope of territorial and authority structures. The projects aims to 1) analyse how the contestation over devolved power in Kenya and Uganda influences political inclusion and exclusion and 2) contribute to theoretical development with regard to how the above is shaped by the interplay between formal and informal institutions and boundaries
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Sweden |
2016-09-13 |
2019-09-13 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Michael Harris
ID:
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Examining the costs and benefits of sanitation infrastructure and access and associated decision-making frameworks within Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: SIR4ES
The purpose of this study is to examine the costs and benefits of improved sanitation facilities, such as flush toilets, which are shared among multiple households compared to improved sanitation facilities private to a single household. Within this purpose, I will investigate the relevance of distinguishing between shared and private sanitation from local household perspectives, landlord perspectives, and decision-making or planning perspectives. The costs and benefits associated with shared and private sanitation will also be explored to further understand the motivations underlying the stated relevance of sanitation access level within low-income settlements of Kampala, Uganda. Within the study, two underlying research questions will help define future research studies and highlight locally important aspects of sanitation planning and household choices: (1) Which key factors drive the cost-benefit differences between shared and private sanitation options? And (2) how can data availability issues be overcome to develop relevant and valid cost and benefit estimations for Kampala, Uganda?\r\n\r\nThe overarching goal of this study is to evaluate the costs and benefits of shared versus private improved sanitation infrastructure within the setting of Kampala, Uganda. Under this goal, we have a number of study objectives, where we hope to improve understanding both for academic advancement and local knowledge advancement.  \r\n\r\nThese objectives are:\r\n - identify the sanitation facility options from multiple stakeholder viewpoints – tenants, landlords, sanitation experts;\r\n - review proposed cost-benefit framework and categories within the local context;\r\n - consolidate and review secondary-data on shared and private sanitation within Kampala slums;\r\n - evaluate the potential benefit-transfer validity both for local secondary data as well as foreign study data; and\r\n - evaluate the validity of benefit-estimation methods, including hedonic regression analysis, contingent valuation survey, and discrete choice experiment, within the local context to potentially replace or supplement benefit-transfer values.\r\n\r\nThese objectives cover multiple important aspects of the sanitation and potentially broader development field. Currently, cost-benefit analyses are an important part of the United Sates’ and many developed-countries’ policy-evaluation processes. However, the application of this method to decisions in developing countries is less common. When cost-benefit analyses have been conducted on sanitation policies or projects in developing countries, the focus has been on extreme shifts, such as moving households from open defecation to a private toilet and septic tank, or analyses have relied on crude data or transfers of value from other settings with limited validation. This study will review the validity of such value estimation approaches within Kampala and seek to understand the potential relevance of cost-benefit analyses to more marginal decisions, specifically households transitioning to shared versus private sanitation.
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USA |
2016-07-01 |
2019-07-01 |
Engineering and Technology |
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Degree Award |
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Aala Abdelgadir
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Mosque Mapping Survey
REFNo: SS385ES
Religious institutions play an important role in the daily lives of Ugandans, as in other African countries. Yet, we understand little about the influence of religious institutions on social and political outcomes. This project focuses on the sway of Muslim religious institutions in shaping the opinions and behaviors of congregants. Specifically, we will study how mosques communicate with congregants, what types of messages they deliver, and how messages shape the attitudes and behaviors of congregants.
The research objectives of this project are to:
• Examine variation in sermons, including topics, religious citations, and tone.
• Assess how mosque and imam characteristics influence the nature of sermons.
• Explore how sermons shape congregant religious, social, and political attitudes and behaviors.
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USA |
2020-03-12 |
2023-03-12 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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IRENE AHEISIBWE
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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
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Uganda |
2016-07-01 |
2019-07-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Wilberforce Tushemereirwe
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Micronutrient Biofortified Cooking Bananas for East Africa
REFNo: A53ES
The goal of the project is to contribute to the alleviation of vitamin A deficiency in Uganda through enhancing the levels of PVA in banana fruit, the major staple food of Uganda.
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Uganda |
2019-11-19 |
2022-11-19 |
Agricultural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Yolana Pringle
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Violence and public health in East Africa, c.1950s-1980s
REFNo: SS9ES
This project represents the first historically-grounded analysis of the relationship between violence and public health in mid-twentieth century East Africa. It does so through three case studies, examining the impact of violence on the health of civilian populations and on public health responses during: Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion (1952-9), the Rwenzururu movement in western Uganda (1960s and 1970s), and civil war in the Luwero Triangle (1982-6). The project will draw from archival material in Uganda’s National and District archives, the Kenya National Archives, and international organisations like the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), UNICEF, and the World Health Organization (WHO).\r\n\r\nThe project's research objectives / questions are to determine:\r\n- To what extent did public health priorities shift during periods of collective and interpersonal violence?\r\n- How did public health officials and international organisations respond to problems of:\r\n - Infectious and communicable diseases\r\n - Water and sanitation\r\n - Nutritional diseases\r\n - Physical and psychological trauma\r\n - Access to healthcare\r\n- Who has been responsible for health during periods of collective and interpersonal violence?\r\n\r\nThrough these research questions, the project aims:\r\n- To broaden our understanding about the operation of public health in sub-Saharan Africa in the past\r\n- To shed new light on the dynamics of violence in East Africa since the 1950s\r\n- To extend our understanding of the emergence of violence as a global public health priority, and the role of East Africa within this\r\n\r\nA full research proposal is attached to this application.
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UK |
2016-08-24 |
2019-08-24 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Eunice Akullo
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Exploring the Integration of Children born in Captivity to LRA abducted females in Post conflict areas affected by the LRA war, Uganda
REFNo: SS7ES
I. To explore integration as a process and the issues affecting it \r\n\r\nII. To examine the response of Transitional Justice to children as a war-affected category
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Uganda |
2016-07-01 |
2019-07-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Krista Milich
ID:
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Conservation to Coexist: Participatory Action Research for Wildlife Conservation and Community Development
REFNo: NS2ES
The goal of this project is to improve the conservation of wildlife in Kibale National Park and support capacity building of local people through a community conservation project. This project is focused on reducing human-wildlife conflict by using land use changes to prevent crop raiding by wild animals. Ultimately, by removing this conflict, the relationship between the local people and the park will improve and will support the conservation of endangered species.
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USA |
2018-07-17 |
2021-07-17 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Krista Milich
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Red Colobus Monkey Reproduction and Conservation
REFNo: NS55ES
Long-term studies of wild primate populations are important for understanding how species adjust to environmental pressures and for examining models of our evolutionary past. My project uses the endangered red colobus monkey (Procolobus rufomitratus) of Kibale National Park, Uganda, as a model to understand how ecological stressors impact reproductive function, sexual behaviors, feeding ecology, and survival. Recent increases in hunting pressure and disease outbreaks have changed the selective pressures facing the Kanyawara red colobus monkeys. My previous work with these monkeys documented differences in behaviors and physiology for red colobus living in different habitats. Conducting further research on these animals will help to answer important questions about both endangered species and evolutionary processes. I request permission to study the behavioral and physiological responses of red colobus monkeys to ecological pressures. Specifically, I aim to: 1) re-evaluate the variation in reproductive and adrenal hormones of individuals living in different habitats, 2) examine behavioral variation over time of individuals in response to pressures from both hunting and disease outbreaks, and 3) monitor demographic changes and the health of this population. Long-term comparisons of the behavior and physiology of these individuals will provide data on the ability for primates to adjust to environmental changes.
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USA |
2018-07-17 |
2021-07-17 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Ryoma OTSUKA
ID:
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Mountain gorilla conservation in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and its influence on residents living in villages adjacent to the park
REFNo: SS14ES
The overall goal of this research is to reduce human-gorilla conflict in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP). Objectives of the study are follows:\r\n \r\n 1. To grasp actual situation of HUGO (Human–Gorilla Conflict Resolution program\r\n) and analyze its effectiveness.\r\n \r\n 2. To know impacts of crop-raiding by mountain gorilla on local residents and understand residents’ attitudes toward it.\r\n \r\n3. To understand local NGO’s role in Bwindi and its implication on local residents.
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Japan |
2016-10-18 |
2019-10-18 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Ryoma OTSUKA
ID:
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Study on Sustainability of Mountain Gorilla Tourism: From a Tourism Management Perspectives
REFNo: SS387ES
The aim of this study is to contribute to the sustainable development of mountain gorilla tourism in Uganda. We have three main objectives of our study. The first one is to better understand tourist needs or expectations and how it is engendered in relation to information sources. The second one is to better understand and explore factors that affect tourist satisfaction. The third one is to understand rangers’ perception of mountain gorillas, gorilla tourism, and tourists.
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Japan |
2020-02-06 |
2023-02-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Tyler Zoanni
ID:
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In the Image of God: Christianity and Disability
REFNo: SS11ES
My research investigates the ideas and practices related to disability that arise within Christian disability ministries in Uganda, where they have become major providers of care and support (housing, advocacy, education, etc.). My research will answer the following questions: 1) In what sense are people with disabilities understood as made in the “image of God� What ideas about disability, models of disabled personhood, and practices of disability sociality and politics do Christian groups in Uganda enact? 2) Why are Christian disability-focused efforts flourishing? 3) What catalyzed the rise of disability ministries? To what extent have ideas and practices centering on disability changed in recent Ugandan history in the context of Christian engagements with disability?
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USA |
2017-05-09 |
2020-05-09 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Kerry Holden Louise
ID:
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The Promise of Science: Deliberating on health, biomedicine and democracy in the Ugandan parliament
REFNo: SS8ES
The proposed research seeks to examine whether, how and in what ways scientific capacity building in the Ugandan parliament and supporting offices and organisations improves political deliberation using health-related, biomedical and scientific knowledge.
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UK |
2016-07-01 |
2019-07-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Ben Evans
ID:
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Theory of change development for conservation evaluation: A Delphi exercise
REFNo: SS40ES
We aim to capture the opinions of a range of stakeholders of the project, from those designing and implementing the project to beneficiaries and end-users. This process will generate a rigorous theory of change with enhanced buy-in from stakeholders, which will go on to form the evaluation of the project. \r\n
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UK |
2017-04-25 |
2020-04-25 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Mpimbaza Arthur Kagoya
ID:
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Evaluating malaria case management at public health facilities in the Busoga sub-region, Uganda
REFNo: HS618ES
1.To evaluate the availability and readiness of public health facilities in providing malaria case management services to patients in the Busoga sub-region.
2.To evaluate the quality of malaria case management practices received by patients seeking care at public health facilities in the Busoga sub-region.
3.To assess health worker competencies in malaria case management standards at public health facilities in the Busoga sub-region
To explore provider and user perspectives of the state of quality of services and opportunities for improving service delivery
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Uganda |
2020-06-16 |
2023-06-16 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Dickens Akena Howard
ID: UNCST-2019-R000179
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Neuropsychiatric Genetics of African Populations - Psychosis (NeuroGAP-P)
REFNo: HS14ES
i) Expand knowledge of the genetic architecture of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Africa through large-scale sample collection, analysis and follow-up.\r\n\r\nii) Increase understanding of the genetics of African populations\r\n\r\niii) Enhance neuropsychiatric genetic research capacity in Africa through the training of scientists and support the development of locally led research programs\r\n
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Uganda |
2016-11-01 |
2019-11-01 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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