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Community Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Related to Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in Kapchorwa District
(2008-10-23)
Whereas several campaigns intended to create awareness and prevent female genital cutting (FGC) have been undertaken in Kapchorwa since 1995, it is not known how much cultural change these interventions have caused in the ...
Culture and Gender-Related Factors Predicting HIV-Risk Sexual Behaviors
(Centre for Basic Research (CBR), Uganda, 2004)
The current study explored HIV-risk sexual behaviors (early coital debut, coital contact with genital ulcers, coital contact with STD, coital contact with persons suspected to have HIV/AIDS or engage in prostitution, coital ...
Attendance patterns and causes of dropout in primary schools in Uganda: a case study of 16 schools
(2008-04-28)
In 1997 the Government of Uganda launched the Universal Primary Education (UPE) program. The 1999 enrollment data collected by the headcount exercise and the school census of 2000 demonstrate that the program has been ...
Devolution and outsourcing of municipal services: in Kampala City, Uganda: an early assessment
(John Wiley and Sons, 2003-11-19)
The late 1980s saw the beginning of wide-ranging economic and political reforms in Africa, prompted by both external and internal pressures. Demands for political reform pushed for democratisation, including decentralisation ...
Land reform and sustainable livelihoods in Kibaale district
(2008-12-05)
Executive Summary Chapter One – Background and Introduction: This report is one of the direct outputs of policy orientated research on land tenure / land reform conducted in specific areas of Uganda and South Africa. The ...
Urbanization in East Africa
(2009-05-29)
Reassessing popular participation in Uganda
(John Wiley and Sons, 2004-03-10)
The 1980s saw the emergence of popular participation as a mechanism for promoting good governance in developing countries Good governance was seen as crucial to efforts to improve the welfare of poor people in countries ...
Playing pool along the shores of Lake Victoria: Fishermen, careers and capital accumulation in the Ugandan Nile perch business
(Edinburgh University Press, 2009)
The 1990s saw the emergence of a thriving Nile perch export market from East Africa. This commercial table fish species is landed by migrant fishermen at villages that have sprung up along the shores of Lake Victoria and ...
Resettlement and integration of pastoralists in the national economy: the case of ranches restructuring in South-Western Uganda.
(2008-12-05)
Introduction: The challenges of settling and integrating pastoralists in national economies, is more urgent in Africa today, as the world observes an accelerated impoverishment of pastoral peoples in the dry lands and a ...