Browsing by Author "Kakuba, Sultan Juma"

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    Human Resource Training and Development: An Investigation into Relationship Between In-Service Training and Quality Teaching Practices in Secondary Schools
    (Editorial Board, 2020) Kombo, Nassir Khamis; Kakuba, Sultan Juma
    This study was conducted to examine the relationship between administrative interventions and quality of teaching practices. The study used qualitative and quantitative approach. Quantitative data was collected using questionnaire from 145 respondents while qualitative data was collected using interviews conducted with fourteen respondents. Using Pearson correlation, the study revealed that there was a strong relationship between refresher courses (r=1.00, p=.000), seminar/workshop (r=1.00, p=0.068), coaching/mentoring (r=1.00, p=.000) and teacher teaching quality practices. On the other hand, majority 97.5% respondents interviewed revealed that seminars, workshops, refresher courses, coaching and mentoring were critical in sharpening knowledge and skills of Teachers to improve their quality teaching practices. The conclusion is that administrative interventions were necessary for improving quality teaching practices of teachers in secondary schools to ensure their effectiveness teaching. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that teachers should regularly participate in refresher courses, seminars/workshops, and coaching/mentoring to improve their quality teaching practices in Schools
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    Management of Wetlands and Livelihood Opportunities in Kinawataka Wetland, Kampala-Uganda
    (Environmental Challenges, 2021) Kakuba, Sultan Juma; Kanyamurwa, John Mary
    Wetlands are globally recognized as ecosystems that provide livelihood opportunities in aptly structured management contexts. Many wetlands, particularly those in urban Uganda are, however, getting degraded through infilling, construction, extraction, agricultural and industrial production despite the existing resource management regime. The purpose of this study was to analyze the gap between wetland management practices and extent of sustainable harnessing of livelihood opportunities. Therefore, this study contributes to an understanding of wetland management functions in relation to sustainable livelihoods. Cross-sectional qualitative and quantitative data were collected to investigate the stated relationships. The study established a positive but insignificant relationship between planning function and sustainable livelihood opportunities. Further, the study found a negative significant relationship between implementation and sustainable production. Finally, findings revealed that there was a connection between the control function and sustainable opportunities. The study recommends inclusive management functions to achieve sustainable wetland livelihood opportunities.
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    Multiparty Politics Dynamics in Uganda
    (African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 2010) Kakuba, Sultan Juma
    In liberal democracy, it is obvious political parties play a critical role in deepening democratic process. Besides, providing veritable avenue for popular participation, they are celebrated mechanism for political mobilization, guiding policy formulation, implementation and much more significant guards against dictatorship. In Uganda, there is evidence that political parties have not been adequately institutionalized. This can be seen in a manner in which they have process in the country. The efforts of political parties to woo supporters in the hope of making a mark at various levels of government, overheats the polity. This been attempting to foster democratic governance in the past and how their current revival to practice multiparty politics fails to strengthen democratic paper advances the position of political parties in furthering democracy in Uganda. It suggests that the current activities of political parties are ill equipped in broadening democratic dividends.
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    State Repression and Democratic Dispensation in Uganda 1996–2016
    (SAGE Open, 2021) Kakuba, Sultan Juma
    State repression covers several and many aspects such as wrongful detention, harassment, intimidation, torture, beating, and killings within state boundaries. This study adopted a desk survey qualitative research design to document state repression acts during five presidential elections. Secondary and primary data were gathered from Uganda Electoral Commission presidential elections results, African Elections Database, and Inter-Parliamentary Parline database. This was augmented by interviews carried out with purposively selected political activists from different political shades and members of civil society organizations. The data collected from documentary reviews and interviews were thematically analyzed using the content analysis method. The findings were that successive presidential elections won by National Resistance Movement (NRM) were characterized by state repression acts amounting to human rights abuse such as torture, denial of political gatherings, wrongful arrest, and detention, intimidation, and killings. Drawing from the study findings, the conclusion is that NRM has used state institutions to repress opposition to shield its regime and to lure mass support to remain in power, undermining democratic dispensation it restored in the country.
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    Uganda's Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in 2021: Media Campaigns and Political Candidate Performance
    (Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2022) Kakuba, Sultan Juma; Mpawenimana, A.S.
    This article investigates the link between media political campaigns and candidate performance. The study's primary purpose was to determine whether there was a link between political candidates' media-political campaigns and their overall performance. The paper used a survey method in which respondents were given questionnaires to fill out in order to attain this goal. A purposive sample strategy was used to select 75 participants from various political parties. The data was analyzed and presented using descriptive statistics and basic regression correlation. Simple linear regression was used to test if mass media significantly predicted the political efficacy of voters. The overall regression was statistically significant (R2 = .309, F=34.120; p= <0.01). It was found that mass media campaigns significantly predicted voters' political efficacy β = .564, p=<0.01. This shows that the media had an influence on political efficacy. Furthermore, it was revealed that mass media significantly predicted performance of candidates (R2 = .391; F=48.603; p<0.01), which proposes the mass media had influence on candidates’ performance (β = .632; p < 0.01). The study also discovered that social media significantly predicted candidates’ performance (R2 = 0.554; F= 51.015; p<0.01). This shows that candidates' performance was influenced by social media. The conclusion is that media political campaigns have an important role in influencing a candidate's election performance. The government should invest more resources in ensuring that all voters and political candidates have equal access to the media and social media platforms in order to deepen democratic processes in which candidates advertise their views and pledges to the public and encourage them to vote for them in elections.