Browsing by Author "Birabwa, Elizabeth"

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    Fostering rural women nonfarm household enterprise financing through local groups
    (Economic Policy Research Centre, 2017) Guloba, Madina; Ssewanyana, Sarah; Birabwa, Elizabeth
    Rural women entrepreneurs in Uganda continue to face multiple challenges that impede their enterprise growth and expansion, despite pragmatic interventions from government and non-state actors to enhance entrepreneurship. Uganda’s female managed nonfarm household enterprises continue to be micro, informal and face bottlenecks to access high credit to grow their business as they do not have the necessary collateral that formal credit institutions demand. Hence, many resort to borrowing from locally managed community or village credit associations to start or grow their businesses and yet, these financing mechanisms are limited. The Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP) should therefore ensure that the distribution of funds is equitable taking into consideration the heterogeneities across spatial areas, region, education level and size of business enterprise.
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    Government’s financing of social protection initiatives dismal
    (Economic Policy Research Centre, 2017) Guloba, Madina; Ssewanyana, Sarah; Birabwa, Elizabeth
    Vulnerabilities within the economy are many, and females are at a higher disadvantage. The need for multi-faced interventions from both state and non-state actors is essential in addressing various vulnerabilities within different social groups.While there are recognised efforts from government to protect its citizens, the limited coordination in financing priorities are not reflecting this. Such that despite expenditure allocations to domestic development in social sectors increasing, the finances allocated to Social Protection by government are still very low for the programmes to achieve social inclusiveness nationally.
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    How Quality of Supervision Moderates the Relationship between Student Teachers’ Preparation for and Performance in School Practice
    (American Journal of Educational Research, 2020) Kani Olema, David; Zami Atibuni, Dennis; Birabwa, Elizabeth
    This quantitative cross-sectional survey examined the moderation effect of the quality of supervision on the adequacy of preparation for SP - performance in SP among 184 (98 second year and 84 third year) student teachers at Busitema University. Findings revealed high adequacy of preparation (M = 103.02, SD = 13.17), high quality of supervision (M = 37.13, SD = 6.19), and high level of performance (M = 43.16, SD = 4.75) in SP. The quality of supervision was a significant moderator of the preparation—performance link, R2 = .0136, F (7, 176) = 3.767, b = .006, t (176) = - 1.941, p = .05. The findings imply need for tagging SP preparation and supervision to student teachers’ performance.
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    Low literacy levels likely to impede rural women’s successbin business
    (Economic Policy Research Centre, 2017) Guloba, Madina; Ssewanyana, Sarah; Birabwa, Elizabeth
    Being literate is a prerequisite in business management and sustainability. While evidence shows that Uganda’s entrepreneurial potential is high globally, female entrepreneurs were still being presented with limited opportunities to expand their business and few tried to increase or independently manage their enterprises. Education levels for women especially in rural areas and among the youth is still low and hence most likely to miss out of government programmes that aim to uplift their livelihoods such as those targeting income enhancement amidst agricultural shortfalls. Programmes must offer mixed approaches in enterprise business chain and emphasis on adult literacy programmes along entrepreneurship is vital for rural business sustainability.
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    Skills mix for young entrepreneurs: The right way to go
    (Economic Policy Research Centre, 2015) Guloba, Madina; Ahaibwe, Gemma; Kasirye, Ibrahim; Birabwa, Elizabeth
    Provision of skills training has been identified by Government of Uganda as one of the major initiatives to be undertaken to make youth more enterprising while addressing the skills mismatch employers are grappling with. A review of evidence on skills provision shows that a combination of skills training yield higher impacts on labour market outcomes and training in one is not sufficient. In addition, training targeted at every stage of entrepreneurial development (mind-set, incubation, start-up, growth and expansion) are vital in sustaining businesses venture over the long-term with emphasis on peer-to-peer mentoring.