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Projected land use change in an oil-rich landscape in Uganda
(Elsevier Ltd, 2022-03-13)The discovery of oil in the North Albertine Rift Landscape of Uganda has increased pressure on land and heightened the potential for resource use conflict. In this article, we focus on changing land use dynamics as oil ... -
Public-Private Partnership in Health Care and its Impact on Health Outcomes: Evidence from Ruharo Mission Hospital in South Western Uganda
(Int'l J. Soc. Sci. Stud., 2018)Background: Uganda’s government 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 ... -
The Refugee Dilemma: Refugee Rights versus State Security in Uganda
(Research Journal of Social Science and Management, 2013)Refugees, who were traditionally conceived and presented as humanitarian issues, are now increasingly being viewed as security threats. The language of threat now dominates refugee discourse and policy making as well as ... -
Community Participation, Management and Sustainability of Public Projects: A Case of Water and Sanitation Project in Kabwohe Itendero Town Council, South Western Uganda
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Uganda and the refugee problem: challenges and opportunities
(African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 2019)Uganda is one of the top refugee hosting countries in Africa and the world. It has been praised as a generous country with progressive refugee policies and laws that reflect the country’s national, regional and international ... -
The Self Reliance Strategy and Refugee Livelihoods: Evidence from Oruchinga Refugee Settlement, South Western Uganda
(International Journal of Research In Social Sciences, 2014)The self-reliance strategy in Uganda has very good aims of empowering refugees become self -reliant and reduce on their dependence on humanitarian agencies among other reasons. By focusing on Oruchinga refugee settlement, ... -
Exploratory study on the adoption of knowledge management practices in small medium enterprises in resource constrained areas
(International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, 2018)The aim of this paper is to shed light on Knowledge Management (KM) practices in Small Medium enterprises (SMEs) in resource constrained areas. The Paper presents the results of an exploratory study investigating the ... -
The effect of land conflicts on the livelihoods of refugees
(International journal, 2013)The study that was carried out in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, South Western Uganda sought to establish the causes of land conflicts, assess the effect of land conflicts on the livelihoods of refugees and the implications ... -
Three decades of forest cover change in Uganda’s Northern Albertine Rift Landscape
(Land Use Policy, 2015)Deforestation within and outside protected areas is widespread in Western Uganda, but quantification of such forest changes is rare. In this study, spatio- temporal forest cover patterns in the Northern Albertine Rift ... -
The Effect of Land Cover Change on Soil Properties around Kibale National Park in SouthWestern Uganda
(Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2010)The change from natural forest cover to tea and Eucalyptus is rampant in protected areas of western Uganda. The objectives were; to examine the trend in land-use /cover change and determine the effect of these changes on ... -
Bridging the rural-urban dichotomy in land use science
(Journal of Land Use Science, 2020)Rural and urban areas are often conceptualized as two separate entities and studied accordingly. However, in reality, they are related in multiple ways. Here we explore this relation between rural and urban areas from a ... -
Social Impacts of Land Acquisition for Oil and Gas Development in Uganda
(Land, 2019)Uganda’s oil and gas sector has transitioned from the exploration phase to the development phase in preparation for oil production (the operations phase). The extraction, processing, and distribution of oil require a great ... -
Revisiting the Drivers of Deforestation in the Tropics: Insights from Local and Key Informant Perceptions in Western Uganda
(Journal of rural studies, 2018)Deforestation has been widespread in the Northern Albertine Rift Landscape in rural Western Uganda. In this paper, we present perceptions from local residents and narratives from key informants on causes of forest loss ... -
Resource-Financed Infrastructure: Thoughts on Four Chinese-Financed Projects in Uganda
(Sustainability, 2021)Increasingly common methods for financing public infrastructure in developing economies are Resources-for-Infrastructure (R4I) and Resource-Financed Infrastructure (RFI), usually involving Chinese financial institutions ... -
REDD at the crossroads? The Opportunities and Challenges of REDD for Conservation and Human Welfare in South West Uganda
(International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 2015)Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) in the tropics could slow climate change while contributing to biodiversity conservation and to improvement of people’s livelihoods. In this study we ... -
Who and Why? Understanding Rural Out-Migration in Uganda
(Geographies, 2021)Rural–urban migration in developing countries is considered to be a key process for sustainable development in the coming decades. On the one hand, rural–urban migration can contribute to the socioeconomic development of ... -
Good intentions, bad extension systems? How the ‘Garden Store Approach’ Crippled tea expansion in Kigezi sub-region, SW Uganda
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)The Garden Store Approach (GSA) was introduced in the tea sub-subsector in the Kigezi sub-region to establish tea in places where the crop was not traditionally grown. In this approach, the Lead Agency (LA) and Nursery ... -
Poverty, gender and reproductive justice. A qualitative study among adolescent girls in Western Uganda
(Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-02-11)Low socio-economic status has been consistently identified as a pri- mary risk factor for sexual and reproductive health violations affecting young women. This study shows how poverty interacts with gender power relations ... -
Covid reveals flaws in the protection of girls in Uganda
(Nordiska Afrikainstitute, 2021)Rates of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) are high in Uganda, by both global and African comparison, and the Covid-19 pandemic has made things even worse. Breaking the cultural, religious and social norms that ...
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