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Improving Resource Access Processes in Protected Areas
(Uganda Wildlife Society, 2004)National Parks in Uganda provide essential goods and services to both rural and urban populations, such as craft materials, herbal medicine, water, fuel wood, fodder, timber and ecological functions like soil erosion control ... -
Examining the Nexus between Nature, Wealth and Power in the Lake George Fishery: The Case of Major Actors in the Fish Product Chain
(Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment ACODE, 2006)Lake George is an important fish habitat that supports fish stocks estimated to be worth 4-5 billion shillings per year. Secondly, the economic value of fish to the Ugandan economy reached record levels in 2005 with fish ... -
Foreign Aid and the Weakening of Democratic Accountability in Uganda
(CATO Institute, 2006)Africa is the world’s poorest continent. Between 1974 and 2003, the per capita income in sub-Saharan Africa declined by 11 percent. Africa continues to trail the rest of the world on human development indicators including ... -
Land Tenure Reform and Beyond: Ensuring Women’s Access to Assets
(United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2007)Recent land reforms in Africa demonstrate that legislation alone does not create property rights. While substantive and procedural reforms of the law are necessary, they are not sufficient to guarantee secure tenure. The ... -
A policy brief on the marriage and divorce bill: Whys, hows, and whats of the marriage and divorce bill, 2009.
(UWONET, 2009)This is an information pack about the Marriage and Divorce Bill, 2009 for policy makers. The information pack provides a brief historical background about the Marriage and Divorce Bill, its content, and the linkage of the ... -
Observing our commitment to addressing gender based violence and reproductive rights in Uganda
(Uganda Women’s Network, 2010)This brief is drawn from the concluding observations of the Committee on the convention on the Elimination of All Form the Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) based on the combined fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh report ... -
The Impact of China-Africa Aid Relations: The Case of Uganda
(The African Economic Research Consortium, 2010)China and Uganda have a long diplomatic history dating as far back as the post independence era. During the period 1962-1985, bilateral relations between the two countries remained steady in spite of the regime changes in ... -
Income, Poverty and Charcoal Production in Western Uganda
(United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2010)Uganda faces all too typical development challenges, including widespread poverty, low rates of labour absorption and stagnant agricultural growth. As a result, the country suffers from ongoing problems associated with ... -
Dynamics of Conflict on Women’s Rights to Land under Customary Tenure: Effectiveness of Legislation
(Uganda Women’s Network, 2010)Women’s land rights are protected under Uganda’s 1995 Constitution and the Land Act of 1998, which defines the types of land ownership that are legally recognized. Both clearly spell out women’s right to access and ... -
Gender Justice and Reconciliation in Northern Uganda
(The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), 2011)This policy brief assesses the gender‐specific transitional justice (TJ) needs of survivors of gender‐based violence in Northern Uganda. From November 2010 to February 2011, the Justice and Reconciliation Project (JRP), ... -
Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education in Africa
(TrustAfrica, 2011)Fifty years after most African countries attained independence, the issue of transformation of higher education is still a matter of serious concern requiring prioritization. Higher education in Africa still faces various ... -
Is Uganda Ready for Oil Revenues?
(The Governance of Africa’s Resources Programme, 2011)Following the discovery of substantial petroleum deposits in Uganda, expectations are high that oil revenues will lead to economic prosperity and improved standards of living. However, if not handled properly, oil revenues ... -
Crisis centers for survivors of gender based violence
(Uganda Women’s Network, 2012)Gender-based violence is a major problem faced by women world over with 70 % of violence faced by women are within homes and yet getting out of such abusive or violent relationship is a very difficult decision for majority ... -
Integration of the concluding observations and recommendation of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) committee in to the Justice, Law and Order Sector (JLOS) Sector Investment Plan III (SIP III), 2012/13 – 201/17
(Uganda Women’s Network, 2012)This policy brief is produced by Uganda Women’s Network as part of the series of policy analysis documents. The brief focuses on the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Uganda ... -
The effects of shocks, gender and culture on asset accumulation
(United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2012)Sustainability poverty reduction is difficult to achieve without mechanisms that help households manage shocks. Covariate shocks, which impact virtually everyone in a community occur because of natural disasters, war, price ... -
Challenges Associated with the Development of Oil and Gas Sector in Uganda
(The African Economic Research Consortium, 2012)The subject matter of challenges associated with the development of the oil sector is commonly acknowledged as being inadequate. The danger is that many African governments often repeat past mistakes by assuming that the ... -
Violence against Women: Looking Beneath the Figures
(Uganda Women’s Network, 2012)Gender-based violence in all forms – physical, psychological and economic remains one of the most detrimental affronts to the lives of women. GBV is attributed to a number of factors including cultural attitudes and ... -
Ensuring Adequate Early Childhood Development for Uganda’s Children
(Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2012)Although Uganda has made significant progress in reducing child deaths in the past five years, the country still faces major challenges in ensuring adequate early childhood development. This briefing highlights some of the ... -
Poverty and inequality dynamics in Uganda: Insights from the Uganda National Panel Surveys 2005/6 and 2009/10
(Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2012)While Uganda has made significant efforts in reducing the proportion of individuals and households living below the absolute poverty line, nearly 10 percent of the households continue to live in persistent or chronic ... -
Reasonable Accommodation for Deaf / Hard of Hearing Children in Uganda’s Education System
(Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER), 2013)The Right to Education is guaranteed under Article 30 of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, and the country is party to International Conventions that guarantee the right, including the International Convention ...
