Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies: Recent submissions
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Local Integration as a Durable Solution?
(Institute of Development Policy, 2017-12)Despite multiple attempts over the last 15 years, Uganda has been unable to find a durable solution for a group of approximately 17,000 Rwandan refugees living on its soil. The cessation of their refugee status has been ... -
Land Grabbing in Albertine Graben, Implications for Women’s Land Rights and Oil Industry in Uganda
(Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD, 2018-12)The discovery of oil in any country is met with Joy and jubilation for its prospective contribution to development. This is no different for Uganda. The need for land to pave way for oil exploitation and exploration as ... -
Intra-household Social Determinants of Demand for Maternal Health Services in Mbarara District, Uganda
(2013-10)This thesis examines intra-household social determinants of the use of maternal healthcare among in Mbarara District, Uganda. Effective use of antenatal care, skilled delivery and family planning are essential components ... -
Public- Private Partnership in Health Care and its Impact on Health Outcomes: Evidence from Ruharo Mission Hospital in Uganda
(International Journal of Social Science Studies, 2018-12-27)Background: Uganda’s government has embraced private provision of social services including health care. The involvement of private providers is an indicator that the public facilities are not sufficient enough to meet the ... -
Governing Natural Resources for Africa’s Development
(Taylor & Francis., 2016)Bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers and policy experts in the area of natural resource governance and management in Africa, this volume addresses the most critical policy issues affecting the continent’s ... -
Globalisation and Knowledge Production in Higher Education: The Impact of Internationalisation and Liberalisation on University Education in Rwanda and Uganda
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Gender and HIV/AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa: Rethinking Men and HIV/AIDS Mitigation Uganda and Rwanda
(Rwanda Journal, 2016)This paper explores the neglected role of men in HIV/AIDS mitigation. Much of the efforts to combat HIV/AIDS widely acknowledge that the gender dimensions of the AIDS pandemic is critical both for the understanding of its ... -
Food insecurity, social networks and symptoms of depression among men and women in rural Uganda: a cross-sectional, population-based study
(Public Health Nutrition, 2017-10-09)Objective: To assess the association between food insecurity and depression symptom severity stratified by sex, and test for evidence of effect modification by social network characteristics. Design: A population-based ... -
Financial reforms and governance and the crisis in research in public universities in Africa: A case of Uganda
(Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2010-09-21)Since the 1980s, African countries including Uganda, have been implementing financial reforms with particular emphasis on spending on priority sectors. Higher education sector was not given priority. In this regard, there ... -
Impacts of the oil boom on the lives of people living in the Albertine Graben region of Uganda
(The Extractive Industries and Society, 2017-12-22)We consider the impacts of the development of oil resources (exploration and extraction) on the lives and livelihoods of people living in the Albertine Graben region of Uganda. These impacts are both positive and negative ... -
A cross-sectional mixed-methods study of sexual and reproductive health knowledge, experiences and access to services among refugee adolescent girls in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
(Reproductive Health, 2019)Background: Humanitarian crises and migration make girls and women more vulnerable to poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. Nevertheless, there is still a dearth of information on SRH outcomes and access to ... -
Decentralization in Uganda: Prospects for Improved Service Delivery
(Africa Development, 2008)Since the 1980s, many Sub-Saharan African countries have been undergoing structural reforms with a view to promoting efficient service delivery. Decentralisation, defined as the transfer of authority from central to local ... -
Couple Relations, Decision-making Hierarchy and Use of Maternal Health Care in Rural Uganda
(European Academic Research, 2013-09)Although social relations are often cited as important in improving maternal health, in Uganda, little attention has been directed at understanding how couple relations influence maternal health decision-making. The article ... -
Drivers and challenges to use of menstrual cups among schoolgirls in rural Uganda: a qualitative study
(Waterlines, 2020-01-09)Is the menstrual cup a potential solution to address the challenges surrounding? menstrual health and management (MHM) for girls and women in low-income contexts? This qualitative study assessed the drivers and challenges ... -
Contextualizing Privatization and Conservation in the History of Resource Management in Southwestern Uganda: Ethnicity, Political Privilege, and Resource Access over Time
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Children’s Wellbeing in an Orphanage In Kole District, Uganda
(Geoforum, 2011-01)This study explored the views of orphaned children about how they perceived and described their wellbeing in an orphanage which is located in the rural area of Kole District in Northern Uganda, East Africa. Recent reports ... -
Burundi refugees’ influx: A threat or a blessing to Uganda’s social service delivery.
(2018-09)Back Ground: Social Service delivery to refugees is part of the human rights promotion interventions and in Uganda, it is enshrined1 in the Refugees Act 2006 and Refugees Regulations 2010, which are part of the global ... -
Armed conflicts and forced migration in the great lakes region of Africa: causes and consequences
(International Journal of Research In Social Sciences, 2014-06)The paper attempts to analyze the current conflicts in the Great Lakes Region and the subsequent displacement from the early 1960s to date. Most of the causes to the conflicts are related to colonialism and post-colonial ...