Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies: Recent submissions
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Teaching Sexuality Education in Secondary Schools of Uganda and its Implications: A Qualitative Assessment of the Curriculum
(Journal of Popular Education in Africa, 2023)This study assesses the performance of the sexuality Education (SE) curriculum used by secondary schools to understand why sexual challenges have persisted amongst adolescents undergoing this curriculum. A qualitative study ... -
Strengthening Women’s Potentials and Capabilities: A Perceived Strategy to Narrow the Gender-Gap in Land Rights in South-Western Uganda
(Advances in Social Sciences and Management, 2023)The gender gap in land rights operates within the broader context of the bigger gender gap in society which is rooted deeply in informal/normative and formal/statutory structures. Security of tenure is a major determinant ... -
Batwa Indigenous Peoples forced eviction for “Conservation”: A qualitative examination on community impacts
(PLOS Global Public Health, 2023)In 1991, the Ugandan government formally established National Parks within the ancestral homelands of the Batwa Peoples. No consultation was carried out with local Batwa communities, and they were consequently forcibly ... -
Interrogating the Impact of Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in Mbarara City in Southwestern Uganda
(East African Journal of Environment and Natural Resources, 2023)The urbanization in Mbarara City Southwestern Uganda has increased the number of built-up and small-scale agricultural areas thus escalating pressure on the grassland and woodlot areas hence influencing land fragmentation ... -
Managing the environment: issues and priority actions for sustainable waste management in Uganda
(African Geographical Review, 2023)Several priority actions are required to ensure a healthy environment for all. One of the priority actions is to collect and manage wastes effectively and efficiently. In this theoretical study, we give a global waste ... -
Assuring Quality in Ugandan Universities During Covid-19
(Journal of Development, Education & Technology, 2023)The Corona Virus Pandemic sparked a crisis across many sectors of the economy. The virus led to the closure of many sectors including education. In Uganda, the education sector was closed for 22 months leaving many children ... -
Integrating Adolescent Mental Health into HIV Prevention and Treatment Programs: Can Implementation Science Pave the Path Forward?
(AIDS and Behavior, 2023)Adolescent mental health (AMH) is a critical driver of HIV outcomes, but is often overlooked in HIV research and programming. The implementation science Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) framework ... -
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations
(Global Environmental Change, 2023)Small-scale gold mining sustains millions of people’s lives and yet it stimulates environmental harms and social conflicts. Global environmental crises drive calls for fundamental change to how people live on the planet. ... -
Does the farmer’s social information network matter? Explaining adoption behavior for disaster risk reduction measures using the theory of planned behavior
(International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2023)Smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate-related disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing, partly due to land-use changes and poor adoption behavior for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures. Such behavior can ... -
Narratives of most significant change to explore experiences of caregivers in a caregiver-young adolescent sexual and reproductive health communication intervention in rural south-western Uganda
(Plos one, 2023-06-01)Background: This paper presents findings from a qualitative effectiveness evaluation of an intervention aimed at improving caregiver-young adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) communication including training ... -
Response to Gender Based Violence During Pandemics; A Lesson from Covid-19 Outbreak in Mbarara City South Constituency, Uganda
(Advances in Social Sciences and Management, 2023)At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, gender-based violence (GBV) was reported to have increased worldwide. An escalation in intimate partner violence was experienced more during the Covid-19 than in other pandemics. ... -
Does the farmer’s social information network matter? Explaining adoption behavior for disaster risk reduction measures using the theory of planned behavior
(International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2023)Smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate-related disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing, partly due to land-use changes and poor adoption behavior for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures. Such behavior can ... -
Trends and Challenges in Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) Research in Sub‑Saharan Africa: a Narrative Review
(Current Sexual Health Reports, 2023)Purpose of the Review: Adolescent sexual and reproductive health remains a major public health challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Comprehensive sex education (CSE) has been hailed as a key strategy to inform young ... -
Is Oil and Gas Discovery a Generational Curse? The Plight of Children in Land Compensation Dispossession in Uganda
(Journal of Internal Displacement, 2023)It is estimated globally that a total number of 44,000,400 are internally displaced persons, with women and children constituting over 70% of this. However, limited focus has been put on the growing generation of children ... -
Understanding pluralistic agriculture extension services through a social governance lens in Northern Uganda
(Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, 2023)This study analyzed the relationship between smallholder farmers’ perceptions of pluralistic agricultural extension service and social governance. This was aimed at the identification of significant factors that improve ... -
Public-Private Partnerships and Health Care Delivery: A Case of Mbarara Municipality
(Academia.edu, 2017-09)Public-Private Partnerships in healthcare is one of the approaches that has been embraced in Uganda’s health sector to realize a change in deteriorating health services. In Mbarara municipality there are many facilities ... -
Organizational Rewards and Performance of Health Centre IV Workers in Greater Mbarara District, Uganda
(Research square, 2020)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study relationship between organizational rewards, and performance of Health Centre IV workers in greater Mbarara District. Methods: This study used cross-sectional, explanatory ... -
Challenges of Ending the Rwandan Refugee Problem in Uganda; The relationship between the Old Case Loads and New Case Loads
(International Journal of Social Work, 2022)Uganda is home to over 1 million refugees and asylum seekers. The origin of refugees in Uganda is an unending crisis in the neighboring countries. Rwanda poses a big threat of ending the refugee problem as the host country ... -
The Trends and Magnitude of Tree Plantation Growing in Rural Communities of Kigezi Sub-region, South Western Uganda
(East African Journal of Forestry and Agroforestry, 2023)The study documents the trends and magnitude of tree plantation growth in the Kigezi Sub-region of South Western Uganda. In most developing countries, national governments have been promoting and supporting rural communities ... -
Can Recognition and Respect of Forest Resource Rights save Echuya Central Forest Reserve? A Precursor for Appropriate Collaborative Forest Management
(Journal of Biodiversity Management & Forestry, 2022)Recognition and respect for tenure and forest resource rights has for long been considered essential for policy makers to promote forest conservation. Several initiatives have indeed been undertaken to promote recognition ...
