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What Drives The High Rates Of Early Child Marriages In Uganda?
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2020)
Child marriage remains a very serious challenge in Uganda due to biased gender norms, limited schooling opportunities coupled with a poor school environment and high levels of poverty. About one out of every five girls ...
The quest for the decentralization of revenue mobilization to Local Governments in Uganda
(Gateway Research Centre, 2020)
A sound revenue system for local governments (LG) is an essential pre-condition for the success of proper service delivery among local governments. Local revenue mobilization has the potential to foster socio-economic and ...
The state of social protection in Uganda in response to Covid-19
(Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA), 2020)
Social protection is a major development intervention because it directly
reduces poverty, supports excluded citizens to access services, provides a
foundation on which to build productive livelihoods, and enables ...
Uganda loses USD 271 million annually due to limited investment in leather processing
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2021)
Uganda’s leather sector has enormous potential in transforming the livestock sector through providing the necessary jobs, acting as an avenue for import substitution and export promotion. However, the leather sector is ...
Expanding fiscal space for social protection: The case for adolescent-oriented services.
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2021)
Uganda has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the pandemicis likely to continue to impact residents in the short- and medium-term,especially children. To contain the spread of the virus, the Government of Uganda ...
Citizens’ Engagement in Local Government Decision Making Processes: Towards public finance accountability, transparency, and improved service delivery in Uganda
(Gateway Research Centre, 2021)
The decentralization system of government in Uganda offers local government the mandate to administratively extend social-economic services to the citizens. It also involves citizens in determining specific local public ...
It takes a network to defeat a network: What Collective Action practitioners can learn from research into corrupt networks
(Basel Institute on Governance, 2021)
This Policy Brief distils recommendations for Collective Action practitioners based on empirical insights on certain forms of corruption involving private-sector actors. Field research carried out in Tanzania and Uganda ...
Massive voter education as a pivotal preventive tool to violence in 2021 elections in Uganda a question of election funding
(Gateway Research Centre, 2020)
Voter education is an important aspect that promotes the credibility of an election as it empowers citizens with knowledge on how to exercise their right to vote in any election with acceptable voter behavior and integrity. ...
The impact of COVID-19 on Ugandan firms
(International Growth Center (IGC) Uganda, 2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic came at an enormous cost to both developed
and developing countries, and Uganda is no exception to this. Though
the country has so far been shielded from the worst in terms of health
impact, measures ...
Child Marriage and Gender-Based Violence in Uganda
(Uganda None, 2021)
This Policy Brief is drawn from qualitative
research carried out in 2018 in Uganda, by the
None in Three Research Centre Uganda
(www.noneinthree.org /uganda/ ) . The
research involved in-depth interviews with 45
survivors ...