Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies: Recent submissions
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Against Self‑Refexive Confessions: Collective Dialogues to Progressively Transform Academic North–South Collaborations
(The European Journal of Development Research, 2024)This paper introduces an approach to transform academic North–South collaborations. Critiquing entrenched dynamics in inter-university collaborations, we propose a methodology for unlearning colonial modes of thinking and ... -
Respecting Her International Obligations? Analyzing Rwanda’s 2014 Law Relating to Refugees
(Respecting Her International Obligations, 2023)Rwanda enacted the 1966 Presidential Decree on the Reintegration of Refugees and later the 1984 Ministerial Decree on Identity Papers for Refugees as its first laws in dealing with refugees. However, the above decrees were ... -
Typologies and determinants of coping responses to forage and water scarcity among livestock farmers in south-western Uganda: Does gender matter?
(Scientific African, 2024)Context specific evidence, including understanding of gender–differentiated responses to shocks and stresses, could bolster adaptation and resilience building amongst agricultural communities, amidst a changing climate. ... -
The Effect of Gendered Power Relations on Socioeconomic Livelihoods of Female-Headed-Households in Mbarara District, Southwestern Uganda
(American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Science (ARJHSS), 2024)This study examined the effect of gendered power relations on the socioeconomic livelihoods of female-headed households in Mbarara District, Southwestern Uganda. The study undertook a cross-sectional survey design with a ... -
Challenges of deepening political commitment and long-term legitimacy in West African integration and the future of ECOWAS
(Cogent Social Sciences, 2024)Regional cooperation and integration are increasing globally with regional blocs working towards economic and political stability. in this paper, the non-situational concept of political commitment and the pathway of ... -
The Potential of Deep Learning Object Detection in Citizen-Driven Snail Host Monitoring to Map Putative Disease Transmission Sites
(Citizen Science: Theory and Practice., 2024)Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic flukes transmitted by freshwater snails. Despite increasing efforts of mass drug administration, schistosomiasis remains a public health concern and the ... -
Perspectives on health, illness, disease and management approaches among Baganda traditional spiritual healers in Central Uganda
(PLOS Global Public Health, 2024)In Uganda, spirituality is closely associated with traditional healthcare; however, though prevalent, it is considered controversial, mystical, less documented and often misunderstood. There is a paucity of literature on ... -
Does Equity Matter in Natural Resource and Livelihood Benefits? Revenue Sharing Policy Implementation at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2024)This paper presents and interprets key parameters within Revenue Sharing policy implementation framework and links them to people’s livelihood improvement and conservation. This study creates a linkage between equitable ... -
First evidence on the occurrence of multi‑mycotoxins and dietary risk exposure to AFB1 along the cassava value chain in Uganda
(Mycotoxin Research, 2024)This study investigated the occurrence and distribution of multiple mycotoxins (aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, G2, fumonisins B1, B2, ochratoxin A (OTA), deoxynivalenol (DON), zearalenone (ZEN), and citrinin (CIT)) in cassava ... -
Land Tenure Regimes and Women’s Land Rights in Uganda; Legality and the Land Legal Framework.
(Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2021)A review on the implications of land tenure regimes on women’s land rights is relevant in the Ugandan context and other countries in Africa due to the fact that land is in many ways the most important productive resource ... -
Vulnerability, resilience, and integration of elderly South Sudanese refugees in Uganda: A Case study of Pagirinya settlement in Adjumani district.
(Universiteit Antwerpen, Institute of Development Policy, 2024)This policy brief is based on the research project financed as part of a grant from the Flemish Interuniversity council (VLIRUOS) under the broad theme: “Making Refugee Integration Sustainable: In Search of Durable Relations ... -
The Nexus between Gendered Power Relations and Socioeconomic Livelihoods of Female-Headed Households: Evidence from Uganda
(American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Science (ARJHSS), 2024-07)Managing a home is traditionally appreciated as the role-sharing phenomenon between a man and woman with their children at some point. Over time, there has been an evolution of family structure not only here in Uganda but ... -
Women Productive Resource Ownership and their Contribution to the Changing Family Patterns in Ankole Sub-Region, Uganda
(International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2024)This study explores how changes in family dynamics, particularly marriage and gender roles, in the Ankole Sub-region are influenced by women’s economic empowerment, specifically through their access and control over ... -
Does Equity Matter in Natural Resource and Livelihood Benefits? Revenue Sharing Policy Implementation at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2024)This paper presents and interprets key parameters within Revenue Sharing policy implementation framework and links them to people’s livelihood improvement and conservation. This study creates a linkage between equitable ... -
Assessment of the Efficiency of Problematic Animal Interventions in Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Uganda: A Case Study of Lake Mburo National Park
(International Journal of Advanced Research, 2024)Human-wildlife conflict is a significant challenge in Uganda, particularly in areas where human populations and wildlife habitats overlap. This study examines the efficiency of various interventions aimed at mitigating ... -
The scale, forms and distribution of volunteering amongst refugee youth populations in Uganda
(Population, Space and Place, 2024)Geographies of volunteering have examined the relationships between people, places and forms of voluntary action, but there has been limited geographical scholarship on the scales, forms and distribution of volunteering ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and practices toward female genital schistosomiasis among community women and healthcare professionals in Kimpese region, Democratic Republic of Congo
(PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2024)Background: Chronic infection with Schistosoma haematobium causes female genital schistosomiasis (FGS), which leads to diverse lesions in the female genital tract and several complications, including infertility and a ... -
Correction: Induced abortion: a crosssectional study on knowledge of and attitudes toward the new abortion law in Maputo and Quelimane cities, Mozambique
(BMC Women's Health, 2024)Following publication of the original article [1], the author noticed the errors in Table 4, and the text part in the Results section. In Table 4, under Benefit (Bivariate and Multiple logistic regression) column, the ... -
Protracted refugee situations and the shrinking durable solutions: could there be a ray of hope in local solutions.
(Cogent Social Sciences, 2024)The phenomenon of protracted refugee situations and the conditions of refugees living in the same situation have renewed debates on durable refugee solutions. despite the international provision for durable refugee solutions, ... -
Greed or Grievance? Linking Revenue Sharing Implementation to Unauthorised Resource Use and Conservation Support at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(International Journal of Advanced Research, 2024)Revenue sharing is considered a major incentive to promote Community Based Approaches to conservation of protected areas. The sharing of revenue from Protected Area resources is supported by conservationists to promote ...
